We previously discussed the bizarre case of Rachel Dolezal, 37, the head of an NAACP chapter accused of lying by her own mother. Worse yet, some have suggested that Rachel Dolezal, who is the head of the NAACP’s chapter in Spokane, planted hate mail at her office. Now it appears that Dolezal once sued Howard University over discriminating against her for being white — before she claimed she was black. If true, it makes a truly bizarre story all the more bizarre.
Dolezal reportedly sued Howard for discrimination in 2002 when she graduated from the historically black college with a Master of Fine Arts degree. She was then known as Rachel Moore and sued Howard and Professor Alfred Smith, chairman of Howard’s Department of Art. The lawsuit is quoted as alleging “discrimination based on race, pregnancy, family responsibilities and gender.” She alleged that she was denied a teaching assistant post and that her application was rejected for a post-graduate instructorship in favor of African-American students. The lawsuit was dismissed by Judge Zoe Bush and Bush’s decision was upheld by the D.C. Court of Appeals. In addition to an order forcing her to pay a “Bill of Costs” of $2,728.50, she was ordered to pay the university nearly $1,000.00 in connection with an “obstructive and vexatious” court filing.
The unfolding background reveals a tragic obsession (and transformation) with race. That obsession would lead to the alleged falsification of information on government forms. It is also unclear whether this controversy will produce criminal charges.
Source: Smoking Gun
Karen, If she lands a reality TV gig the producers won’t allow her to “fix her problems,” although the chances of that happening are remote.
Tyger: Amen to that.
Nick: She does seem to be laying down quite a pattern. This is one of those examples of “her character is her fate.” Because of her character flaws, she will likely continue to have drama and problems until and unless she fixes her problems.
@Ken Rogers
You know what??? I am all for affirmative action TO A POINT. For example, when the civil rights movement was going on, and cities started hiring black firemen, and black police, I think they needed to discriminate against prospective white employees to make up for the past injustice. But that was 50 years ago. Enough is enough.
Time for black people to get hold of their own dysfunctional behavior. The damn excuses made by the Left and the racebaiting are doing more harm than good.
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
Tyger Gilbert
I had a friend who raised gerbils, rats, and mice. In the sixties and seventies there was a big craze to own snakes, venomous, constrictors, the more dangerous the better. He sold the animals live for the snake charmers to feed to their pets. Survival of the fittest and a welfare society all neatly wrapped up in one. The snakes were getting a free lunch. For the gerbils, rats, and mice, of course, there is no free lunch.
issac – in the late 50s one of my neighbors was raising chinchillas. Think it was a money loser in the end though.
LOL! This fraud is in negotiations for her own reality show. Only in America.
Karen, Usually an ombudsman acts as an advocate for people outside a dept. who have a problem or grievance. But, ombudsman is a generic term and so I don’t know what power she had in that role. But, appears she may have violated a trust given to her. Knock me over w/ a feather!
When I was a teenager, I raised pet mice. I had about 350 at one time, and sold them to pet shops all over the state of Colorado. I had white mice, black mice, brown mice, grey mice, black and white spotted ones, brown and white, grey and white, three color, and many more. 35 different coat-color combinations. When they were first born, I could see what color their skin was and know what color their coat would be. What I found particularly interesting was that no matter what color or combination of colors they were, any one mouse would react the same to any other mouse. Color of hair (and skin) meant nothing to them. In the 50 years since then, I have often wondered why the human species makes such a big deal over skin color. Like different colors of paint on cars, it’s all superficial. The machines underneath are all pretty much the same, at least in purpose, if not in style. True, there are trucks for hauling heavy stuff, vans and SUVs for hauling a family and it’s belongings, 4x4s for going off-road, and sedans and sports cars for comfortably transporting one to four or five people from one place to another. Too bad humans can’t appreciate each other for their capabilities and not just what color their paint job is.
Squeeky Fromm, Girl Reporter
1, June 17, 2015 at 4:00 pm
“@KenRogers
“Thank you for your very cogent comment that race is just a social construct! Sooo, if we are all the same under the skin, can we finally end affirmative action, and stop making excuses when those darker skinned white folks do feral stuff like looting liquor stores??? Plus, can all you liberals stop hollering ‘Raaaacists!!!’ every time some white person passes gas around a darker skinned white person???”
Well, you’ve confirmed once again, haven’t you, that dying is easy, but comedy and thinking, not so much. 🙂
Although there are no “races,” biologically, there are certainly different ethnic groups or ethnicities, all of whom share the same DNA. Affirmative Action (which I view as doing more social harm than good, by the way) has been an attempt to rectify injustices suffered by historically disadvantaged groups, including Native Americans, based on their ethnicity. Genetically ignorant people may refer to Affirmative Action as “racist,” approbatively or pejoratively, but that hardly makes it so.
I should think it impossible-to-overlook obvious that the fact that we all share the same DNA hardly precludes different behavior by different people under different circumstances, but that seems to have somehow eluded you.
The “liberal” epithet means even less in my case than when it’s applied to others as a substitute for thinking, as I don’t identify in the main with either of those secular religions, “liberalism” or “conservatism,” which I’ve found very frustrating to people who insist on living in that bi-polar world.
If you simply must label me, the most meaningful one would be Christian Individualist.
What we need are armed drones on the border.
What we need is to stop subsidizing everyone with free money, benefits, housing, welfare, food stamps.
If you had to actually WORK for yourself, be self sufficient and there was no Big Sugar Daddy on the other side of the border, the stream of illegals would cease.
Actually, the end of the welfare state would be a great thing in general for the economy. Instead of people sucking up tax payer money and doing NOTHING….or worse than nothing, there would be economic growth.
It wasn’t until someone devised the socialistic welfare state that we have now in the US that we experienced such an economic decline as a country.
Before the SJW types chime in….Do I want the cheeeelreeen to starve or people to suffer. NO. That is what we have charity for, to take care of the TRULY unfortunate. There are billions of dollars funded into charities, religious and secular. The lazy, drug addled, alcoholic, criminal elements, can go wither and die in a corner.
Darwin’s Law. The useful and the strong survive. If you want to survive…..be one of those.
Ask me what I really think 😀
Squeeky: The U.S. could certainly build a wall if it wanted to. The government already owns the land, they could use prison labor for free, and I’m sure most Americans would gladly donate to a fund for the purchase of concrete and bricks. The fact that the wall has never been built is testament to politicians talking out of both sides of their mouths. Telling constituents one thing, and the Mexican govt something else.
TinEar – as fast as the build it, the illegals figure out how to go over it, under it or threw it. What we need are armed drones on the border.
So just how mad are they at Rachel, anyway? From the AP we find that :
” … On Wednesday, an independent investigation by the city of Spokane concluded that Dolezal acted improperly and violated government rules while leading the city’s volunteer police oversight commission.
The report found that Dolezal violated the city’s workplace harassment policy when she “engaged in conduct that humiliated, insulted or degraded” a city worker; abused her authority and showed bias against police.
Spokane Mayor David Condon and City Council President Ben Stuckart said Wednesday that Dolezal and two others should remove themselves from the five-member commission after an independent investigation found they had acted improperly and violated government rules. ……
The city’s Ethics Commission, meanwhile, is investigating whether she lied about her race on her application to the oversight board by presenting herself as the daughter of a black police officer from Oakland, California, when she sought the appointment last year. ….
In her admissions essay, [ to Howard University ]she described her family as “transracial,” writing that “at the early age of three I showed an awareness of the richness and beauty of dark skin when I said, ‘Mama, all people are beautiful but black people are so beautiful.'”
All in all I would say pretty precocious for a three year old white girl.
But here, you be the judge. Read the whole AP story:
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2015/06/17/us/ap-us-naacp-leader-racial-questions.html?ref=news&_r=0
bfm – she doesn’t have enough problems? now she has a black cop dad. Wow!!!! Talk about throwing you’re parents under the bus.
http://www.solotravel.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/great-wall.jpg
Speaking of Genghis Khan, and his people, how come is it that the Chinese built about 4,000 miles of actual wall, without bulldozers and cement trucks, starting way back 2000+ years ago, to keep out the Mongol Hordes, and people act like Trump is crazy when he says we should build a 1,500 mile or so one today??? Particularly when we need shovel ready jobs.
Let’s see, the Old Chinese built a wall. The Commies built a wall around West Berlin, ancient cities built walls, some old Roman guy named Hadrian built a wall to keep the Scots and their bagpipes out, and us Americans—people who went to the friggin’ moon—supposedly can’t build a wall to keep the Mexicans and others from coming into our country and take jobs from Americans???
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
Karen – I’ve never seen a Howard U. application, so I’m just going by what has been widely reported by CNN, Washington Post, etc, that the Howard app that she filled out for admission to the masters in Fine Arts program did not ask for the applicants race, and that she was admitted based on her art portfolio and a telephone interview. Also, her black brother said that it was only AFTER she graduated from H.U. that she began gradually adopting a black appearance (which he speculated was in response to her mistreatment there).
Nick – I read a bit of the Seattle press, and there were some issues concerning her “inappropriate behavior ” on the volunteer police ombudsman board, even before this racial side-show came out. There was an investigation launched in May that determined that she and two others members leaked confidential information. Also, the investigation concluded that there was a conflict of interest in that she appeared unable to separate her advocacy role for the NAACP from her expected neutral role for the ombudsman ‘s office. So all three have been asked to resign. All in all, a can of worms.
Paul:
“Spokane hired a law firm in May to investigate a whistleblower complaint filed against Dolezal and two others, alleging workplace harassment and improper government action in their roles with the volunteer citizen Police Ombudsman Commission. The investigation found that the commissioners acted inappropriately.”
I think that the fraud that Dolezal perpetrated is going to cause a tremendous, expensive mess, including all the police time she wasted filing an allegedly false hate crime complaint. Anyone who gives this lady her own show is rewarding unethical behavior.
Paul – thanks! I wonder how many students chose “Samoan.”
Karen – the correct answer is American Samoan.
Nick – thanks. I missed that, too. Was it her job to monitor complaints against police, investigate them, or serve on a board that voted on disciplinary action. I’m not familiar with how such boards work. If so, then this could absolutely create more of a mess as we have to unwind anything she worked on where integrity was important.
BFM:
“What ever else they say about Genghis, he had his charms and a way about him.” Well, that and he was a serial rapist who killed his male competitors when he conquered a region. This is why I’m glad we can’t time travel. Aside from the obvious paradox where you could travel through time and accidentally step on some animal and change the entire course of history, you could also catch The Plague, be dropped off in the middle of a village being sacked, or under a window when they dumped the night soil into the street. Women used to wear platform heels of really absurd heights and carry vials of smelling salts because the streets smelled so bad in Europe. You could be burned by a witch, enslaved by the Moors, or killed by Vikings. Life was a bloody awful existential struggle for survival, which is why contemporary fairy tales are so gruesome.
The Essentials to Bring Time Traveling would include mace, a water purifier, antibiotics, and either the Invisibility Cloak from Harry Potter or Jamie Fraser from Outlander. (I’m really flying my nerd flag on this one.)
Tin Ear, As PaulS comment @ 6:10p indicates, it was an ombudsman position, monitoring police actions on behalf of the citizenry of Spokane.
@PaulCS
Speaking of “blackface”, I never understood why that is now considered racist. I particularly don’t understand it, when the black thug subculture is merrily portrayed by rappers everywhere. My goodness, but that was a negative stereotype that actually transcended “stereotypicality” and became actual “reality.”
The same way the old racist joke, “What is mass confusion???”, with the answer being, “Father’s day in N—–r Town.” grew way beyond a mean racist joke in the 60s(?), and became reality by 1970 and continuing through today. Sooo, anyway, here is one where this guy has a good subtle dance routine:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6dXrm1YjBE
Squeeky Fromm
Girl reporter
Paul – is it that the information is confidential, or that race identification is not collected? I could understand if they did not reveal such personal information about individual students, but aren’t they required to collect these statistics for the student body in general? There are figures for the current racial distribution at Howard, so they’re getting the data somehow.
Karen – they collect the data and keep it in the student records where it is used for meta data analysis. I am not sure how the forms are set up now, but bi-racial did not used to be one of the options or you were not allowed to pick two (so you had to throw one parent under the bus). Some students would refuse to make a choice and then we were REQUIRED, by law, to make the choice for them. We usually made the one we thought would be best for the school. 🙂 BTW, students could be any race they wanted to be.