Elizabeth Warren, courtesy phone please … An NAACP leader’s parents have made a startling revelation: their daughter, for years a highly visible civil rights activist in Eastern Washington, is white. Rachel Dolezal, Spokane’s NAACP Chapter President and part-time Africana Studies professor at Eastern Washington University, has been misleading people about her ethnicity for years, her parents say. Her mother even offered photographic proof. While today the 37-year-old divorcee currently sports
identity politics
May 13, 2012
Gayest statement evah [Darleen Click]
Clinton was our first Black President, so it’s left that Obama is, according to Andrew Sullivan, our first Gay President. And President Obama has much in common with the gay community. “He had to discover his black identity and then reconcile it with his white family, just as gays discover their homosexual identity and then have to reconcile it with their heterosexual family,” Sullivan writes. Sully asserts that our essential