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Ditto on your Game of Thrones statement. I'm completely avoiding the discussion on the church shooting because since Colorado and Sandy Hook, I've just realized that people really do live in a video game world where shooting people is comparable to playing a first person shooter video game. I honestly think they think there is a reset button and they can start over and if they can't their boring lives are now front page stories and they have something they would have never had in their day to day existence, fame.

I'm confused as to who is saying what?????? Are ChevDove and Guest the same person?? Anyhow, welcome to the board whoever is whom. Regarding the conversation, I am somebody who would pass the brown bag test and over the years, I noticed that I am treated differently than sistas darker than me. They observed this, too, and never hesitate to tell me about it. Sometimes in jest and other times in resentment. People from time to time ask me if I'm "mixed" and I simply tell them "not to my knowledge". I've never had the desire to try and pass, and consider myself a legitimate black person in psyche as well as experience. I must confess, however, that at this point in my old age, people of all races get on my freakin nerves. Everybody is crazy but me. I've pretty much given up on this fucked up society turning itself around. I am not optimistic. Nevertheless,ChevDove/Guest, I'd be interested in your thoughts about my take on the Rachel Dolezal case, an opinion I expressed elsewhere on this board under the headline "On Being a "Wigger". Anyhoo, as a result of my disillusionment with America, instead of watching the News which is alll bad, and the prime time TV fare which is mostly tripe, I've gravitated to almost exclusively watching the Science and Discovery and True Crime and TLC channels. The massacre at the black church and the reaction to it, just numbs my sensitivities. I need a respite for racism. More and more I am captivated by programs about quantum physics and how things are made, and UFOs and Aliens, or about people who murder their mates in order to collect their insurance money so they can hook up with the person who they're been having an affair with. I am also an avid fan of Game of Thrones which is violent and lascivious and utterly incomprehensible.. As for reality shows, I look at ones about gluttonous slobs who weight 600 lbs and can't get out of the bed, or about nut-cases who are compulsive hoaders and are buried in their homes under mountains of trash and feces and filth. Or, could I care less about my hometown hocky team, the Chicago Black Hawks, winning the Stanley Cup. zzzzzzzzzz I do watch the opening monologues of the Late Night TV talk show hosts, just to hear them skewer celebrities, but the interviews with the guests rarely command my interest. As for the Net, I hang out on FaceBook mostly to harrass anyone who is too comfortable in their views. i just go on their walls and highjack their discussions with my opposing views.. I am especially a menace to devout Christians who consider me the spawn of Satan. So, ChevDove, you ask why am I spewing all of this drivel. Well, this is what I've degenerated into. Since you've come aboard, maybe you can take up the slack because I'm fading awaaaaaaaay.... World weary and jaded. Now, for the real reason I jumped into this subject. It occurs to me that since my latest book "The Only One" is about an interracial romantic triangle that pits a black sista against a white gurl in a contest to see who can win over a fione brotha, this novel suddenly has some relevance due to the hot topic fueled by Rachel Dolezal in regard to the entitlement and advantages white females fall heir to. http://conniediversbradley.simplesite.com/ ,

You're very welcome. I really haven't read many comments to recognize that mostly men were defending her, but I did find it funny when I read that Montel Williams blasted her! LOL! I don't mind at all that you want to know about me in relation to that historical Brown Bag Test, and I absolutely fail that test! LOL! My husband keeps telling me that I come close to passing, but it would have to be during a very cold winter and up in the north world, in my opinion. Nevertheless, I do have love for Ms. Dolezal and she looks so sad, I kind of feel sad for her too. But I don't like it that she was employed at an HBCU and put into a position to which she could have brought hardship to Black women. I read that in a recent post somewhere? I don't like it too, that a person like her has a better chance being financially furthered as being Black, than me. But when it comes to true African American women that are fair skinned, I have found my sistas to be more vocal about Black issues than many of my darker skin sistas. And, I can almost hear them now, ranting about Ms. Dolezal passing for White. I graduated from an HBCU many moons ago, and the powerful sistas that I've come across in my past come in many shades of Black. Oh Gosh, those were the Good Ole Days.

Welcome to the boards! I understand your sentiment. I haven't commented on this subject and I won't. I can't even begin to understand the irritation unless I look at Justin Timberlake and Robin Thicke and see how they have appropriated Black cool only when it benefits them. I guess overall, I don't care about her or Bruce Jenner. It's just another drop of crazy in an ocean of fruits and nuts.

This is my first post. I have been searching and searching for years for an avenue to help me with my research and feel that after having more time to research this website, I surely hope I can be more enriched by joining. I have endured a very bad setback in my life due to medical reasons, and decided to see if I can find another avenue to vent and get help. I did see this website years ago, but did not realize how incredible it is until now. Funny thing though, to me, is that this article about Ms. Dolezal kind of strikes a painful feeling inside of me. I understand what you say about others passing for White and now she has done the opposite, but as an African American woman, it does hurt on the inside that she has been able to advance her life byway of this organization that I suppose was set up to help people of color. No, I don't have any animosity against her and I think she is so pretty, but as a Black woman, man, it hurts because I have endured so much racism that has hit me financially, and to see someone posing as me, to help me, well, I just don't get it. I believe that she could have just helped black people without having to present herself as being Black. I don't think she will ever fully endure the full impact of racial injustice that an original African American woman endures. I have just been denied medication by a major private hospital and it was a White woman that denied me and for this reason, I know I am up against the wall. When I was a little girl, 5 years old, my kindergarten teacher, a White woman, shoved my head into the table one day as I was drawing a picture of my favorite season, autumn, and still today, I can't understand how a White woman could do that to a child. So, it strikes me in an odd way, when I see White women who are trying to represent the Black culture for many reasons, one of which is that if we endured racism, it would not just be from the White man, however, it seems that many Black people don't equate White women to also victimizing our race and culture. Even though Ms. Dolezal may have meant know harm, but her actions are sort like mocking us.