Celebrating Rachel Dolezal This Black History Month!
Honoring Rachel Dolezal: Black Queen, Feminist Icon, and Rainbow-Pride Coalition member!
This Black History Month, I want to honor Rachel Dolezal: Black queen, feminist icon, and Rainbow-Pride Coalition member!
Many years ago, I heard this joke: Michael Jackson proves that America is the Land of Opportunity! Because where else could a poor black boy grow up to be a rich white woman?!
Rachel Dolezal did this in reverse, thereby showing that America is still a magical place where you are not limited by the circumstances of your birth or lineage: she went from being a middle-class white girl from a stable two-parent home to being a broke black woman, on welfare, with a bunch of kids by different baby daddies. This, ladies and gentlemen, is the new American Dream!
In the new America, the way to ascend the dominance hierarchy is to identify as a victim. Whereas past generations sought status by overcoming adversity and accomplishing noteworthy deeds, we now understand that greatness is attained, paradoxically, through embracing defeat. And no demographic has been conditioned to been psyopped into has learned to delight themselves in defeatism like black people in America. Just as the Civil Rights Movement came to fruition and new opportunities opened for blacks, not only to achieve great things but also to enjoy fully the fruits of their own successes, the cult of Marxcissism arose with a seductive gospel promising power and prosperity through victimhood. While people of every race and ethnicity jumped on the Marxcissist bandwagon, black people did so with extra alacrity.
Under Marxcissism, the path to power runs straight through mediocrity1. If you remember your elementary-school classmates observing “Opposite Day2,” then you can basically think of Marxcissism as making every day Opposite Day. For example, the best NFL team ever would not be the undefeated 1972 Miami Dolphins, but the 2017 Cleveland Browns, which followed up their near-perfect 1-15 season in 2016 with a banner 2017 season that was completely unblemished by any victory of any kind. If the Browns had embraced Marxcissism, then rather than attempting to rebuild their franchise to win games, they would have appeared on cable news programs to rant and rave about how they were the victims of a New England Patriot-supremacist system; they would have staged a protest outside the Super Bowl and demanded equal representation for their players on the field and for their coaches on the sideline; and players throughout the league would have worn uniforms sporting slogans like “End Winnerism!” and “Brown Players Matter!”
Inspired by the Rainbow-Pride movement’s proclamation that trans women really are the same as biological women (because the most authentic identities are those that require lifelong hormone treatment and expensive surgeries to maintain), Dolezal decided to fight the white-supremacist system by renouncing her white privilege and identifying as black. This immediately improved her victimology poker hand from having only the single victimized identity marker of female, to having three such markers: (1) trans (2) black (3) female!
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