Rachel Dolezal on changed life since race identity row - BBC News

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  • Опубліковано 2 жов 2024
  • Rachel Dolezal shot to fame last year as the prominent civil rights activist accused of lying about her racial identity. She identified herself as black but it was revealed she was the child of white parents. Now, nearly one year on, she tells HARDtalk's Stephen Sackur how her life has changed and reflects back on the media storm of June 2015 that changed her life for ever.
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  • @Eeeeeeee.eeeeeeee
    @Eeeeeeee.eeeeeeee 8 років тому +34

    I dont think that even she understands what the hell shes talking about.

  • @XXXpallisterXXX
    @XXXpallisterXXX 8 років тому +18

    How on earth can she "identify" as being black - she been on the sunbeds too long and needed a cover story?

    • @22ron81
      @22ron81 6 років тому

      Slayer

    • @wesleyhempoli5548
      @wesleyhempoli5548 3 роки тому

      nobody needs a "cover story" for being on a sun bed.
      what actually happened was she had a career as a professor in black studies and she lied about being black to get the position.

  • @toneriggz
    @toneriggz 8 років тому +29

    Rachel Dolezal on BBC...too easy.

  • @lvteachme973
    @lvteachme973 8 років тому +19

    This lady is disturbed.

    • @victoriaappiagei1482
      @victoriaappiagei1482 6 років тому

      too me Rachel Dolezal disturbed black people white girl racist so dump not can white please stop old body black death

  • @milla0722
    @milla0722 8 років тому +5

    The comparison between her and trans people needs to stop. It is NOT the same thing.
    Being a trans person implies that you must take responsibility of your own identity. Being trans implies that you are honest about the way you were born, that you don't hide it, that it's not a secret for anyone, since it simply doesn't define you anymore. If you don't have that honesty towards people, you can't expect them to treat you seriously and accept you as you truly are. If Rachel would have had the same speech as the other trans people, "I was born this, but I feel a stronger spiritual and cultural connection with that, so I wish to conform my identity to that"... then none of her nightmare would've had happen.
    She was asking to be accepted and taken seriously by the people she shamelessly lied to.

  • @billingtonmarc25
    @billingtonmarc25 8 років тому +10

    Is that Al Jolson?

  • @LionelWitchieWardrob
    @LionelWitchieWardrob 8 років тому +5

    If viewed through a postmodern lens, isn't she entitled to create her own identity? I don't see much of a difference between this and transgenderism, if one takes both race and gender to be social constructs. I don't, personally, but I'm wondering why there has been such vilification from those who presumably do.

    • @PunksterOS
      @PunksterOS 8 років тому +1

      +LionelWitchieWardrob
      Yeah sure lets see how it works out for me as I put on fake tan and makeup in an attempt to look like a black man.
      She can do whatever the hell she wants, I personally don't care but to come on a BBC show and claim hardship while talking about her book deal... Nah, she gets none of my sympathy. She attempted to cash in on the victimhood train and now she is.
      I bet I wouldn't get a book deal, I'd be lucky to survive the week.
      Life is hard for most of us, why should she get ANY special treatment? What about her real family that she disowned, who cares about them?

    • @superman0O7
      @superman0O7 8 років тому +1

      +LionelWitchieWardrob She conned her way into the NAACP. This is just like the plot from the movie Soul Man starring C. Thomas Howell which was about a white kid who puts on blackface to get into Harvard on the African American scholarship because he didn't want to pay to go to Harvard. Later in the movie he falls in love with the woman who was suppose to get the African American scholarship and regrets putting on blackface. The movie didn't bode well for black people as if should and it bombed at the box office. Bottom line she is using this fake symphony story to sell her book and using your confusion to do it.

    • @LionelWitchieWardrob
      @LionelWitchieWardrob 8 років тому

      Superman I want to see that film. But I'm not confused. I will not be reading her book. She crazy. But good on her for cashing in if she has the opportunity. As soon as I heard her story I thought book deal.

  • @J2daP-UK
    @J2daP-UK 8 років тому +4

    Transparency... Um...anyone else?

  • @boscobenny7539
    @boscobenny7539 7 років тому +3

    I identify as a Disabled Person with No Head.

  • @reccacope8592
    @reccacope8592 8 років тому +4

    If she wants to be black who cares why is this even a issue I'm so confused people are mad because she lied who's not lying everyday

    • @cmgriggs4607
      @cmgriggs4607 8 років тому

      Amen

    • @crandallaj
      @crandallaj 8 років тому

      +Reecca Cope right people lie every day...and they get called out too...she wanted to be black when it's convenient for her...p.s. she was making money off of it. Yes...we can out liers and fakes sometimes..it's a good thing.

    • @reccacope8592
      @reccacope8592 8 років тому

      +crandallaj I don't mind people calling her out what annoys me though is the same ppl that are mad cause she claims she black she was actually helping the community she donated was apart on the NAACP taught African American studies that more than what some of us even do I don't really care she lied I looked at what she did besides the whole sending threats to herself thing

  • @bigdaverobo21
    @bigdaverobo21 8 років тому +4

    I identify myself as Man of the Night's Watch!

    • @PunksterOS
      @PunksterOS 8 років тому

      +David Robertson
      I recognise that identity... May your watch never end.

  • @TheRobel101
    @TheRobel101 8 років тому +11

    but bruce jenner can change gender?

    • @TheRobel101
      @TheRobel101 8 років тому +1

      marie moon yh same i think both fucked up
      but do what you wanna
      its just stupid ironic when bruce comes outs hes a hero etc etc and anyone that disagrees is crucified. but they all going crazy against her as if its different smh. if youre gonna accept bruce you gotta accept this too.

    • @daryllcliwood3679
      @daryllcliwood3679 8 років тому

      +R. Berhane yeah I mean if this is what she wanted to do then good luck to her...BUT she has to realize it's not that easy!!! you have to experience the culture in order to understand it..the good and the bad..same thing with jenner in my opinion your NOT a woman if you still have your penis!? a woman is more than cute sayings,makeup or hair or clothes as well...

    • @TheRobel101
      @TheRobel101 8 років тому

      Daryll Cliwood true. plus the fact we're talking about FUCKING CHANGING GENDERS AND RACES lmfaooo wtf man
      this shit is a mental illness i swear these are biogical facts that cannot be changed unless you have a genie or 7 dragonballs
      smh

    • @mariemoon8892
      @mariemoon8892 8 років тому

      ***** ikr and i hate when people say that changing gender/race is not a mental illness ..IF SO then i want to be a unicorn , since i was a child i felt different . i eat grass and fart rainbow and, that when i realise iwant to be a unicorn ...lol

    • @TheRobel101
      @TheRobel101 8 років тому +1

      marie moon you can identify as a fucking planet you are still a male or white or a human smfh
      shit is retarded

  • @kymberlini8510
    @kymberlini8510 3 роки тому

    Lady, just say u wantwd to be black therefore changed everything to become black...stop going around it. U r not black but u want to be black period pooh...im brown becus im brown

  • @JonathanDavidJ
    @JonathanDavidJ 8 років тому +1

    And just as it was dying down.......The BBC comes along!

  • @einefreunde
    @einefreunde 4 роки тому +1

    Ali G in a female form

  • @truth1901
    @truth1901 8 років тому +1

    STEPHEN....... Mr Sackur.... Copper is the pigmentation in hair.
    Please interview Dr Glidden. thx

  • @terryritchie6148
    @terryritchie6148 8 років тому +1

    The nut house is missing one.

  • @MrDokha
    @MrDokha 8 років тому +1

    if she's black I identify as pingu

  • @jordanthewizard
    @jordanthewizard 8 років тому

    I am an athletic Japanese man trapped in a fat white man's body.

  • @guidofarage7457
    @guidofarage7457 8 років тому

    She is just the definition of *RIDICULOUS.*

  • @Steadno
    @Steadno 8 років тому +1

    bbc going real deep like

  • @Table-Top
    @Table-Top 7 років тому

    We are reaching a state now where someone can claim to be what they are not (on any given day), and paint themselves as a victim. This kind of thinking poses some serious social questions.
    The colleges in the USA have a higher bar for entry for Asian American students compared to black ones. What if an Asian-American says, "I identify as black" , would they be able to enter college more easily?

  • @blackjackomfg
    @blackjackomfg 8 років тому

    white/black people

  • @josephraymond4138
    @josephraymond4138 8 років тому

    Who is she trying to fool ? Then she may have a point that all humans go back to 2 people who were Black and therefore rightfully claims her ancestry . Only point is that it is all about being Natural .

  • @taramoonshadow363
    @taramoonshadow363 4 роки тому

    She just doesn't want to be re-traumatized by her childhood. It is a SHAME that her angry, controlling parents ultimately FORCED that issue!!

  • @johnpatmos1722
    @johnpatmos1722 8 років тому

    "It seems you weren't black in the way people thought you were." The neo-liberal / neo-progressive slant shows where hard talk becomes soft ball.

  • @crandallaj
    @crandallaj 8 років тому

    wow she's delusional, I feel so bad for her...this has to be a sign of mental illness somehow...

  • @TomCorbett420
    @TomCorbett420 8 років тому

    come on guys don't hate her she's black and i'm a jew xD

  • @ichnisanchi9557
    @ichnisanchi9557 8 років тому

    hahahahaha!! This woman is hilarious! Love it! I almost feel sorry for her.

  • @personalemail1632
    @personalemail1632 8 років тому

    i didnt know makeup could change your racial/ethnic makeup

  • @cheezwhiz5185
    @cheezwhiz5185 8 років тому

    I-i don't understand the quESTIoN

  • @kymberlini8510
    @kymberlini8510 3 роки тому

    Spoh-kan

  • @johnpatmos1722
    @johnpatmos1722 8 років тому

    She has secured her book deal.

  • @danielleberry6319
    @danielleberry6319 5 років тому

    But why do your hair the way folks try not to have???

    • @Holly707
      @Holly707 4 роки тому

      To help make her look black.

  • @tonytony-fc6gq
    @tonytony-fc6gq 8 років тому

    BLACK THE MASTER RACE

  • @plowed4weeks
    @plowed4weeks 8 років тому

    lots of fake tan

  • @jamiekendell9895
    @jamiekendell9895 8 років тому +1

    My God let her live smh

  • @scorp7265
    @scorp7265 8 років тому +2

    Side Show Bob want's his hair back!

  • @Rielestkid
    @Rielestkid 8 років тому

    I feel bad for her, but the last thing she says in the video shows that she's still confused about her identity and that's why she's lost so much of herself. Just be honest, you can continue to do the same work as a white woman.

  • @hexkwondo
    @hexkwondo 7 років тому

    dat forehead though...

  • @simplexpressions4192
    @simplexpressions4192 8 років тому

    Sideshow Bob is missing his hair