In The Shoe Of Miss #Dolezal

A majority applauds her. Some consider her a villain. Me, I call Rachel Dolezal “An Ultimate One-Woman Revolutionist.” To those who applauded her, to those who cursed her, I would say that it was all the consequence of her revolution. I call her a revolutionist because a revolution is most definitely a radical undertaken to alter a certain course. Rachel Dolezal took the most stringent approach in her attempt to participate in the struggle of the Negro being.

When the news erupted, my initial reaction was that she simply wanted to live as a black person. I could not figure anything wrong with that; except of course that she may have violated the law by lying to maintain the blackness. I had yet to learn much about her background, her life, and her work in the black community. After I had arrived to know more about the life of Miss Dolezal and her position vis-à-vis the Negro race, I have reserved nothing but praise for her. And I would encourage her to consider any pitfall from this as a backfire of her endeavor.

What is the best way to understand the suffering of another human being than to experience the suffering yourself? Perhaps if the slave owners had subjected themselves to the experience of the Negro slaves, they would have had a change-of-heart that other human beings should not have been treated so inhumanly. Miss Dolezal went all the way to even alter her physical stature to adopt the Negro identity in order to live like a black person. We may never know exactly what might have pressured the lady to go that way. People have speculated that she is crazy, that she is a liar, that she is a phony, and all. Some of her action may force us to certainly empathize with the above. Her parents have described her as a pathetic liar; her adopted brother has painted a mentally displaced picture of her; and other people are just baffled by her comportment. Yet, what Miss Dolezal did was just trying to be as Negroid as Negro could be. She adopted a Negro identity and attitude; she altered her hair and skin color; and she joined the Negro person to live like one.

Many black females, and even black young men, have continually been trying through time to approach closer and join the Caucasian being. Throughout colonization and even to now, many black men and women have procreated with white individuals, and those kids have benefited significantly by having associated with their Caucasian progenitor side. More recently, we have seen black women crowning with long hair that sometimes makes it almost impossible to determine their race from behind. And more absurdly, many young black individuals have bleached their bodies to make them appear more light skin.

Miss Dolezal does not fit within the above disorder. She was in contrast on a mission to discover Black, to live black, and to fight on the side of the black person. Of course she could have done it some other ways, probably more effectively, that people could have comprehended her better and commonly accepted her. However, I guess she wanted to do it that way, or some way. She might have miscalculated the eventual outcome; bu,t that was what she wanted – to identify, live, and struggle like a Negro. With that, she certainly attained some highs and lows. (1) She received a scholarship to Howard University. Well, perhaps she would be capable as a white woman to obtain financing for her education some other ways. (2) She has been a professor of Afro-American Studies. She could be a professor of any other subject of her liking. (3) She became head of a NAACP chapter. It is very likely that she could ascend some other echelon. (4) She was also Head of some police order. Likewise, it is claimed that she was victim of hate crime and other abuses.

Now, Miss Dolezal, a Caucasian woman, entered the Negroid shoe not for the superficial aspects that most Blacks have done, (white privileges, better skin color and hair style). She appears to have had a deep sense of wanting to experience the life of the black person and to fight along side of him. She stated that she expected her strategy to fire back. Anyway, that was what she wanted to do. She did it. Most often, that is the way a revolution ends. You win some; you lose some. Miss Dolezal has now been somewhat derided over the media. Nevertheless, she would remain that one white woman who had gone so far as to enter the Negro’s skin to fight along with him.

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By E.C. GRANMOUN
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