‘Black Twitter’ Responds to Rachel Dolezal’s Interview
Have I told you lately how much I love the Rachel Dolezal story? Because I do. This morning she finally spoke out on the Today Show, and I don’t think black people appreciated her comments very much. Here are some tweets from “Black Twitter,” but I have one caveat – given the recent rise of white people pretending to be black, I cannot vouch for the blackness of all these people. Reader beware!!
Donald Trump running for President and this Rachel Dolezal interview.. Bruh, June 16th is forever known as 'Stupid Nigga Christmas'
— Seikou (@Kabblestone) June 16, 2015
I kinda feel bad for Rachel Dolezal. Wanted to be a nigga, got her life ruined by niggas.
— Mike (@MikeOG_) June 16, 2015
If rachel dolezal can identify as "black" a nigga gunna identify as martian sabertooth fuck it
— Martian Sabertooth (@TooFast2Black) June 16, 2015
This country really defines blackness as whatever fits a situation. Nigga this is our culture. Our skin. Our existence. Fuck Rachel Dolezal.
— ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ (@princexhermes) June 16, 2015
To Rachel dolezal if you want to be black my nigga be black I want to be a dolphin
— Afropsychedelicsॐ (@babYEEZUSjks) June 16, 2015
But Rachel Dolezal is no victim. She is violent. She violently appropriated our culture, and even our skin.
— Jermaine Spradley (@MrSpradley) June 16, 2015
Black people HATED Rachel Jeantel because of her dark skin and weight but love LOVE #RachelDolezal for her orange skin and fake hair.
— Terrell J. Starr (@Russian_Starr) June 16, 2015
There’s nothing complicated or complex about Rachel Dolezal. Your intellectual saviors cannot explain this. She’s a fraudulent liar. Fin.
— solid gold (@blowticious) June 16, 2015
You know that #RachelDolezal was someone's black friend, and now they're panicking.
— Gregory Pizarro Jr. (@gregpizarrojr) June 16, 2015
Like…even #RachelDolezal parents are tired of her shit, yet and still black folks on this here app are caping for her "blackness"
— #BlackExperience (@kidnoble) June 16, 2015
I DARE @MHarrisPerry and #RachelDolezal to go in front of an all Black audience talkin that "transracial" mess. YOU WONT BC ITS BULLSHIT
— Vintage Honey (@thesoulasylum) June 16, 2015
I hear Rachel Dolezal speak and I hear nothing more than an entitled white woman.
— actual mango tree (@sailornegro) June 16, 2015
The media going to slander the shit out of Rachel Dolezal because God forbid more white people are encouraged to identify as BLACK.
— Charlamagne Tha God (@cthagod) June 16, 2015
What if #RachelDolezal said she was Native American&painted her skin red& walked around with braids&feathers in her hair? Wld THAT offend?
— Nig-ella Lawson (@JanvierNoir) June 16, 2015
#RachelDolezal keeps citing her two underage boys as black people who understand her. Children. Whose thoughts she shapes. Jesus.
— Olivia A. Cole (@RantingOwl) June 16, 2015
'Trans-racial' is not only a fiction, but a one-way grab that extends the powers and privileges of Whiteness. #RachelDolezal
— Khaled Bey (@KhaledBeydoun) June 16, 2015
Yep, it's just like a white person to say what is or isn't Blackness. #RachelDolezal
— #FreeEricSheppard (@SankofaBrown) June 16, 2015
I feel like Rachel Dolezal is all the proof we need to understand that white girls getting braids on vacation is problematic.
— Jensen Karp (@JensenClan88) June 16, 2015
The comments comparing #RachelDolezal to the Trans community feel so bigoted – designed to invalidate the experience of millions. Awful.
— Justin Simien (@JSim07) June 16, 2015
White folk took this country under the guise of Manifest Destiny. No surprise #RachelDolezal feels like its her right to take black identity
— Curtis Sails III (@CurtisSails) June 16, 2015
Dolezal Destiny!!!
People condemning blacks for their feelings towards #RachelDolezal. But, if a BM/BW tried to do the same thing, it'd be hell to pay.
— SouledOut ☥ (@BeeR0cka) June 16, 2015
If white people fuck up they get to go on the today show. If black people try to live they get arrested or shot. #RachelDolezal
— Jamie Kilstein (@jamiekilstein) June 16, 2015
Let's not give some white woman who says she is black ANY damn room in our history, because she is part of the problem. #RachelDolezal
— ProfB (@AntheaButler) June 16, 2015
You know how many black kids at HBCUs don't get scholarships and this white woman sued for one?!?! This is unforgivable. #RachelDolezal
— Terrell J. Starr (@Russian_Starr) June 16, 2015
I'm more entertained than outraged at #RachelDolezal. You can't just wear us because you wrote a dissertation on us and can braid. Lmao.
— Eggo (@eggology_) June 16, 2015
#RachelDolezal emprace of blackness isn't some transracial formative thing, it is GRIFTING BULLSHIT. FULL STOP.
— ProfB (@AntheaButler) June 16, 2015
So much more effort is being made to "understand" #RachelDolezal than to understand the damage she did through her deceit. That's notable.
— Musa Okwonga (@Okwonga) June 16, 2015
#RachelDolezal, ironically, has proven she's not black: since she is currently enjoying the luxury of being "understood", not pathologised.
— Musa Okwonga (@Okwonga) June 16, 2015
My point is this: that #RachelDolezal's story is, beyond the jokes, being handled with an empathy not ordinarily afforded to black women.
— Musa Okwonga (@Okwonga) June 16, 2015
Whiiiiiiiiite Privilege!!!
What you can learn from #RachelDolezal is that white people in America are entitled to everything, even a brand new ethnicity :)))))))
— RED SEA (@Ldizzleeeee) June 16, 2015
#RachelDolezal divesting from Whiteness – paradoxically – is the ultimate expression of White privilege.
— Khaled Bey (@KhaledBeydoun) June 16, 2015
#RachelDolezal is living proof that if you are White, you can be anything you want to be — even BLACK.
— Brannon Smith (@brannon_smith) June 16, 2015
#RachelDolezal can convincing present/perform as Blk bc blkness is broadly defined. Most blk women don't have privilege to perform whiteness
— Charles M. Blow (@CharlesMBlow) June 16, 2015
#RachelDolezal reminds us: white people get to do whatever they want to do and the rest of you may file a complaint they'll promptly ignore.
— Aniyar Uoke (@eclecticbrotha) June 16, 2015
SEXISM!!
Stop defending a white woman in blackface. You wouldn't defend a white man in blackface. That should end the conversation. #RachelDolezal
— Imani Gandy (@AngryBlackLady) June 16, 2015
This is my favorite though:
If a black woman was the head of the republican party faking white, she would be in JAIL. #RachelDolezal doing the reverse is gon get paid.
— Veteran Freshman (@yusufyuie) June 16, 2015
What the hell? LOL! That makes no sense whatsoever. Somehow blacks being fooled by Rachel Dolezal is Republicans’ fault!!
Notice also that many of these are contradictory to the others – her being praised is proof of white privilege, but her being criticized is because of white racism! I love it. So much.
