This Rachel Dolezal business. Who knew that the film 'Soul Man' would be quite so prophetic?

[Berni]

Why has no-one asked for C Thomas Howell's views on the matter?

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/z2zMrjBLwn8/mqdefault.jpg

[redgunamo]

[Classic Jorge]

http://www.radiotimes.com/namedimage/White_Chicks.jpg?quality=85&mode=crop&width=580&height=327&404=film&url=/remote/static.radiotimes.com.edgesuite.net/pa/18/56/webANXwhitechicks.jpg

[redgunamo]

[Classic Jorge]

Says he "identifies as black" so it's all fine. The "coloured people" she's been advancing all these years mostly disagree.

I'm not so sure, I think it's fine if people want to pretend they are black.

http://www.radiotimes.com/namedimage/Tim_Westwood_to_leave_Radio_1_and_1Xtra.jpg?qualit y=85&mode=crop&width=570&height=318&404=tv&url=/uploads/images/original/34451.jpg

[Berni]

Seems we can pretty much 'self-identify' as what we like these days :cloud9:

[Berni]

[Classic Jorge]

I refuse to type "colored" though

[redgunamo]

the actual, official facts that's caused the resentment and bitterness here. In fairness to Westwood, I don't think he ever stated that the Bishop of Bath & Wells, or whoever his father is, was really Kunta Kinte or anyone.

[Classic Jorge]

brap brap, etc etc, so on and so forth

[Berni]

gone for the educated, well-spoken, poltically-active black thing. In other words, she's gone for the sort of blackness that's most easily carried off if you're actually white. If anything, Westwood has pulled off a much more impressive bit of chameleonic activity - without even a perm or a bottle of fake tan to back it up.

[Trixie Popsicle]

[Curly]

[Berni]

I'm thinking of being Bangladeshi at weekends.

[Berni]

given the choice. :hehe:

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

I self-identify as a tiny little vole. Me and Santi Cazorla.

[Berni]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

the aeroplane? 112 years of being shackled to the whim of rich white men and that?

It's tricky stuff, this identity politics business.

[Ashberto]

'focuses on the intersection of race, gender and class in the contemporary diaspora with a specific emphasis on black women in visual culture’, as apparently she is, the rules of identity-politics and victimhood mean that people in certain quarters are going to ask you to 'check your privilege'.

To get around this she has adopted the notion of self-identification.

[redgunamo]

and had been putting it on all these years :-(

[Classic Jorge]

tbh, she seems to have done nothing but good for her people, or appropriated people at least, good luck to her I say.

[Classic Jorge]

[redgunamo]

don't lie on their CVs nowadays are people like me who don't actually have one http://www.awimb.com/images/smiley_icons/ohwell.gif

[Berni]

utter craziness. She's now saying here parents might not actually be her parents despite biologically definitely being her parents. :hehe:

She is a Grade A lunatic and no mistake. And I, for one, applaud her. :bow:

[Ashberto]

[Berni]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[redgunamo]

[Classic Jorge]

[Berni]

Enquiry on that one.

[Curly]

[redgunamo]

TNWWI.

[Classic Jorge]

she was by all accounts pretty well respected.

You're aware of the N.A.A.C.P., I take it?

[redgunamo]

The NSPCCNWA or wharever it is. Those chaps.

[Ashberto]

Anyone who uses that word, even if mis-spelt, must be racist.

[Classic Jorge]

WHITE DEVIL!

[redgunamo]

[Berni]

If not, I'd say it's a pretty poor show.

[Ashberto]

http://napawhinecountry.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Monty-Python-Stoning1.jpg

[redgunamo]

Certainly would though.

[Berni]

People, to be fair.

[Classic Jorge]

[Classic Jorge]

[Ashberto]

of Life of Brian.

"Where's the foetus gonna gestate, Stan, you gonna keep it in a box?"

What a prescient fillum that was. Taking the piss out of religion but ended up predicting the future.

[redgunamo]

Wouldn't have needed it in my day, of course.