Rachel Dolezal - An Example of Self and Group Hatred

The bizarre, strange, and peculiar behavior of Rachel Dolezar is a lesson for all mental health professionals who are interested in seeing a person exhibiting self and group hatred.

Here is a white woman who was born to two white biological parents who raised her as an average white girl. Now as an adult for the last seven years she has rejected her parents; dishonored them; and disparaged them. They apparently still love her and remain confused about her behavior. Anyone who chooses to act that way towards their parents is a despicable person and can't be trusted. There is no evidence that her

parents abused her or neglected her. Rather, it appears to be just the opposite. Her parents appear to be the type that loved children as evidenced by their choosing to be adoptive parents and adopting four children.

Returning specifically to Ms Dolezar, some facts need to be considered. I think that depriving a Black person, as she did, from acquiring a full scholarship from a traditional Black university, Howard University, is not acceptable. And after graduating from Howard University to then sue the University as a white woman for a faculty position is not only unacceptable, but truly bizarre.

Also during these seven year stretch of time she also identified a Black man as her father as well a young Black man who had actually had been adopted by her parents, as her son. Moreover, she discovered how to transform her blond hair to fuzzy brown hair and how to frequently use tanning salons to deal with her pale white skin.

While we should treat every other human beings as we would want to be treated, as Black Americans we should reject all white people want to be Black, but accept those who recognize and appreciate their heritage – Greek, French, Spanish, Italian or otherwise. While I’m in the process of identifying the specific country from which my ancestors were taken, the part of the continent that I identify with is West Africa.

Keep in mind, this is a racist country founded upon the backs of slaves who were torn from their African homeland and kept in involuntary servitude for over three-hundred years. This is not a country of immigrants despite what Obama and other liberals, both Black and white, may say. My ancestors did not immigrate here, they were brought here in chains under the worst conditions imaginable while white Europeans came own their own free will. 

And once here, with the exception of a few, capitalized on white privilege and if they didn't, it’s nobody’s fault but their own and still remains that way. Dolezar, once she stops trying to be Black, has the option to stop going to the tanning salon, to let her hair go back to its natural blonde and to capitalize on white privilege like any other white woman.


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