I have made clear in a multiple posts now that I was not suggesting that this woman knew what it was like to black in the way that an actual black person would know. There was very little ambiguity in my initial post. Words like “may” and “some” have meaning and in this case were meant to convey that she didn’t deal…

No, that’s a valid question.

You’re absolutely right. The woman looks black! And she lived that life for almost two decades. She drove black, shopped black, and headed the NAACP in Spokane. She taught classes as a black woman in Northern Idaho, the epicenter of white supremacy in North America. She put her actual life on the line. Whatever one…

Yeah. I’m currently seeing a specialist about a potentially having a sleep disorder, and one of his first questions was, “What’s keeping you from getting 7 hours of sleep a night?”

No no no not the brush! I know you love him but you steered him wrong. I have a very soft bristle brush that I use around the edges when I put my hair in a protective style (for example, it’s hot as shit so my hair is in a high bun right now) but that’s the only time I use a brush and it’s for smoothing, not…

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In ur moniez

Maybe. Maybe not.

Fuck this Full House shit, let's bring back Murphy Brown!

I would guess that she had a difficult relationship with at least one parent, and when her parents adopted black children she assumed a black identity in order to try and feel loved or receive attention from them. The fact that she had cut them out of her life tells me there were deep problems there.

I think that the origin of whatever is going on in her head involves her parents being the kind of people who would out her in public rather than quietly informing her bosses at the NAACP and getting mental health professionals involved. They let this go a loooong time, and then felt this was the way?
Sorry, something…

Maybe, just maybe, she really meant ethnic hair (as in non-white). Maybe she wasn’t using that word to refer to black-hair ONLY. I am a latina and my hair certainly can be classified as “ethnic” (wavy and curly depending on the seasons, and of medium thickness).

As absurd as is may sound, the alleged hate crimes that she reported might be legitimate. Even though she is not black, she was telling people she was black. If they believed she was black and acted against her based on that belief, what they did was racially motivated.

Right? My old line of work was linguistics, occasionally veering into forensic linguistics.

Gender is different from the biological fact of sex.

I’m totally ok with opposing opinions. But I’m totally NOT OKAY with being called (direct quote here) “fucking stupid,” which is why you’re last comment was dismissed. That does not add to discourse, whereas your comment here actually does.

I’m thinking about what could possibly be going through her head, and really trying to figure out where her heart is, too, and I keep coming up with this hunch that she really was trying to be, I dunno, true to herself somehow...? Or at least she never meant to hurt anyone, in fact quite the opposite...? It has my…

My first thought was Toni Home Perm using the xsmall rods. I know this because my mom did it to me. She was going for a “Shirley Temple” look (WTF). After we cut it off I had to endure a full year of “and what will the young gentleman be having” I’m not saying it lead directly to the divorce. But I’m not saying it…