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    PurpleCaneGirlClover Hope
    6/16/15 9:15am

    At what point can we sit back and just acknowledge that this is her experience and look at it with a bit more empathy? She's hurting. Her family is hurting. Everyone is hurting.

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      KPPurpleCaneGirl
      6/16/15 9:17am
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      LindaPurpleCaneGirl
      6/16/15 9:19am

      Yeah that might fly if she hadn’t sued Howard University for discrimination and claimed it was because she was white. This wasn’t when she was 5 years old, she was applying for a teaching assistant job at Howard. So her story changes to suit the questions being asked.

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    ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ : Riot GRRR is RUNNING WILDClover Hope
    6/16/15 9:18am

    I wonder what she identified as while she was suing Howard...

    I hope this woman goes away, but this whole thing has been enough of a freak show such that she’ll probably be around forever.

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      happy TN chickadeeʕ•ᴥ•ʔ : Riot GRRR is RUNNING WILD
      6/16/15 9:25am

      She identified as white when she sued. She claimed discrimination because she was white.

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      Mireille is German for The Bart, Theʕ•ᴥ•ʔ : Riot GRRR is RUNNING WILD
      6/16/15 9:32am

      I see the possibility of her becoming a frequent guest on Fox News, depending on just how cynical she is.

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    JessicaPantsClover Hope
    6/16/15 9:21am

    So she made her same ridiculous claims on live TV... to Matt Lauer. Eh.

    Call me when she says the same stuff on camera to Jessica Williams. That’s an interview I’d watch.

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      Jessi03JessicaPants
      6/16/15 9:28am

      I would really love for her to get ripped apart by Oprah. I don’t even like Oprah, but I want to see the interview happen. Or Wendy Williams, and they can compare wigs.

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      DevonnaJessicaPants
      6/16/15 9:29am

      Oh, man, I would pay real money. This Dolezal person would get her ass handed to her on a paper plate.

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    paultoesClover Hope
    6/16/15 9:37am

    This piece was an eye opener. It’s basically a list of all the known times that she has claimed to be a victim because of whatever race she said she was at the time.

    But Dolezal’s most disturbing claims weren’t about advantage. They were about victimization. Last year, in a newspaper column, she implied that she could speak for descendants of slaves. She excoriated “people who have not felt the lash of centuries of oppression beating down on their backs” for daring to “tell us to keep calm and carry on.” In an interview with the Easterner, she claimed that her parents had used a baboon whip, “similar to what was used as whips during slavery,” to “punish us by skin complexion.” (Her parents and her adopted blackbrother say this isn’t true.) In 2010, when HREI appointed a white man to be its executive director, Dolezal, who had wanted the job, told the press that she was resigning because she had been targeted for discrimination.

    And that is just one paragraph. It goes on like that, with her claiming to be the victim of various trumped up charges and hate crimes that she herself most likely perpetrated.

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      theratonipaultoes
      6/16/15 9:49am

      The Easterner interview with her is all kinds of crazy. So many unbelieveable claims in it.

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      MaryTylerMoore'sHairFlippaultoes
      6/16/15 10:04am

      Not only did she have to be African American but she was “whipped” by her parents “based on the completion of her skin.” It’s like she’s trying to out-black black people with her crap. This is some fucked up fantasy for her. She is nasty.

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    Snow Monkey AmbassadorClover Hope
    6/16/15 10:13am

    As a dude, I’m self-identifying as Half-Clooney/Half-Buffett. I identify with the looks and lifestyle of George Clooney and the money and brains of Warren Buffett, so that’s what I am. The fact that I’m actually neither of those things does not make a single iota of difference.

    YOU MUST RESPECT MY CHOICES!!!

    Come at me, ladies!

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      bolognesepleaseSnow Monkey Ambassador
      6/16/15 10:45am

      Im going to identify as a cat. I’ve known I was a cat since I was five. I have lived the cat-experience.

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      AliceInWunderlandSnow Monkey Ambassador
      6/16/15 10:52am

      I thought this was going to be half Jimmy Buffett and I was very intrigued.

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    comeonpoppetClover Hope
    6/16/15 9:20am

    I wonder how much she’s getting paid for this garbage.

    Hold up, she’s getting paid for this? The entire thing is disgusting and she is obviously racist as hell and entitled as hell (As someone -probably many persons- have said Dolezal is PEAK white privilege) She may also be mentally ill. But who the fuck is PAYING HER TO BE RACIST AND ENTITLED?

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      ForgotMyLastPasswordcomeonpoppet
      6/16/15 9:26am

      I believe all three of her interviews today are with NBC properties (Today Show, MSNBC, etc). That’s not by accident—NBC likely dropped a big chunk of change and won the bidding war for the rights to her interviews.

      There was a time when this wasn’t the case and wasn’t considered good journalistic practice/ethics. Sadly, those days are long gone. NBC paid her. No doubt.

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      Vincomeonpoppet
      6/16/15 9:26am

      I think it was meant in jest, as in “her getting paid is the only reasonable explanation for her continued bullshittery.”

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    Tondahlaya.DelavintamigliaClover Hope
    6/16/15 9:16am

    God. Okay, I’m done. What ever happened to that high risk pregnant woman who disappeared/ran away right before her c-section? Is the baby okay? Is she okay? Not saying I want the press digging through her garbage or taking photos of her 24/7, but it would be nice to know if that had a happy ending.

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      LindaTondahlaya.Delavintamiglia
      6/16/15 9:18am

      They found the woman but I don’t know that they know where the baby is. The report said the woman has suffered from mental illness.

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      BlockBusterTondahlaya.Delavintamiglia
      6/16/15 9:18am

      No. The baby no longer exists and she is in psych.

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    St. Borg de Chupacabras ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗClover Hope
    6/16/15 9:32am
    GIF
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      GELLA - LLAPSt. Borg de Chupacabras ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ
      6/16/15 9:33am

      woowza and good morning

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      WingardiumFuriosaSt. Borg de Chupacabras ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ
      6/16/15 9:40am

      What is that first gif???

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    VoteyMcVotefaceThePartyVoteDriverClover Hope
    6/16/15 10:39am

    So you can just say you identify as a certain race and the rest of the world is obligated to treat you as that race? Great, in that case i’m announcing that I identify myself as a Hobbit. I’m practically the right size for it, got enough hair on my feet and I have a love of drinking eating and the occasional smoke. I will expect to be feed elevensees and second breakfast. However I will not be giving gifts to anyone on my birthday, that’s one part of being a Hobbit I don’t consider part of my racial identity.

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      adultosaur married anna on the astral planeVoteyMcVotefaceThePartyVoteDriver
      6/16/15 10:56am

      i am like if an ent and a hobbit had a weird person baby

      #foothair #rillytall

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      VoteyMcVotefaceThePartyVoteDriveradultosaur married anna on the astral plane
      6/16/15 11:04am

      pippin x treebeard.

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    ShadyfreudeClover Hope
    6/16/15 9:19am

    Seriously how does she get her hair like that.

    My hair is similar to her natural hair, and I can’t even get it to hold a curl more than an hour.

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      RosaleenBanShadyfreude
      6/16/15 9:24am

      Extensions, I would imagine. Or lots and lots of chemicals.

      Lots of money, either way.

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      VinShadyfreude
      6/16/15 9:27am

      White Privilege

      (Srsly though it’s confusing me, too.)

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