Rachel Dolezal: Fraud, Victim or Standard Bearer?

Max Musson
Western Spring
June 18, 2015

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Rachel Dolezal

I imagine many people will have been variously amused, disgusted or intrigued by the recent publicity surrounding the race and identity of Black civil rights campaigner, former Africana studies instructor and former president of the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People (NAACP) chapter in Spokane, Washington, USA, Rachel Dolezal, who it appears, is a White woman who has been passing herself off as Black. This case involves much stupidity, hypocrisy, falsehood and self-deception on the part of all those involved and it is worthy of further examination and analysis.

Rachel Dolezal is the biological daughter of Lawrence and Ruthanne Dolezal, who are both White and believed to be of Czech, German and Swedish ancestry. The Dolezal’s, like so many evidently White families also allude to the possibility they may have a trace of Red Indian, so called ‘Native American’ ancestry also. This always makes me laugh, especially when so many such families are to be found in the far flung corners of the British Isles, where a Red Indian would have been throughout our history, as rare as ‘rocking horse droppings’.

This apparently insignificant detail in the Dolezal family’s folk memory is however central to this whole issue, as I will explain:

During the 19th and 20th Centuries, we Europeans dominated most of the world militarily and politically and many of our people migrated out from our ancestral homelands to either settle or seek their fortune in the colonies, and in doing so, encountered non-White peoples for the first time. For those who stayed at home, especially if they were from poor working class backgrounds, life was comparatively often hard and often dull and uninteresting.

True folk communities that had existed in the past, in which our people were inextricably immersed in a rich pageant of customs and a folk culture going back through millennia had been disrupted by first the Enclosures Acts and then the agricultural and industrial revolutions, which drove our people from their traditional rural communities into the cities in search of work. These developments had a disastrous effect upon our folk culture and the life of our rural communities and left the newly urbanised masses with little in the way of community, culture or identity.

The anguish of these times is expressed poignantly in following extract from the poem by Oliver Goldsmith entitled, ‘The Deserted Village’:

“Ill fares the land to hastening ills a prey,
Where wealth accumulates and men decay.
Princes and lords may flourish or may fade,
A breath can make them, as breath has made:
But a bold peasantry, their country’s pride,
When once destroyed, can never be supplied.
A time there was, ere England’s grief began,
When every rood of ground maintained its man;
For him light labour spread her wholesome store,
Just gave what life required, but gave no more,
His best companions, innocence and health,
And his best riches, ignorance of wealth.
But times are altered: trade’s unfeeling train
Usurp the land and dispossess the swain.”

While the 19th and 20th Centuries were a time of great expansion in power and political influence for the wealthy, the mercantile classes and our nations as a whole, and a time of great opportunity for people with money and a driving sense of adventure, for the majority of people from the newly urbanised, industrial, working class backgrounds, especially in those days before radio or television, there was little to fire the imagination especially where our culture or ethnicity were concerned and life could be rather dull and grim. In response to this there was a tendency for imaginative grandparents to invent for their grandchildren romantic stories of distant fictitious ancestors who were invariably, Red Indians or Romany Gypsies, or some such like, who led comparatively colourful, carefree lives complete with elements of mysticism and the exotic.

In this way there has been created within many predominantly working class families a fictitious folk memory of these fictitious exotic ancestors, the ‘memory’ of whose colourful lives seemed to brighten an otherwise grim and grey existence. In my experience almost invariably, these ‘folk memories’ upon investigation turn out to be completely fictitious.

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Before and After

That Rachel Dolezal’s parents also maintained such a fiction regarding their ancestry suggests a tendency to view their working class White background as rather dull and uninteresting and a yearning on some level at least, to have something exotic in their lives. In reality however, investigation by a genealogy expert commissioned by the Daily Mail has shown no evidence of Black ancestry whatsoever for the Dolezal family and no Red Indian ancestry either. All of Rachel Dolezal’s great-grandparents it would seem, can be traced back to Sweden, Czechoslovakia, Germany or the Netherlands.

This brings us back to the issue of a White woman passing herself off as Black and stating defiantly that although she had as a child and an adolescent the appearance of a White person, and although her biological parents are both White, she never-the-less identifies as a Black person. This also begs the question: why a White woman would want to pose as a Black person and why she would self-identify as Black?

The answer to this question in my view rests with her upbringing and the stupidity of her parents.

We are all well aware of the effects of our mass media upon the minds of White children: disparaging our ancestors and their achievements and making us feel ashamed of our White ancestry; presenting non-Whites as victims of White racism and inducing a sense of guilt for ‘historic’ and ‘institutionalised racism’; presenting non-Whites as morally superior to Whites; presenting non-Whites as ‘cool’ and ‘vibrant’ and ‘sexy’, while Whites are portrayed as nerdy, dorky, dysfunctional and dull. We are also well aware of liberal and Marxist politicians telling us repeatedly that non-Whites are needed within our societies in order that we should have a ‘vibrant’ and ‘colourful’ culture, as if life within White nations had been sadly lacking before the advent of mass non-White immigration. If we add to this mix parents who have a fictitious family folk memory of an exotic ancestor, and who feel it more important to adopt and nurture and give their love and affection to non-White children than to have more White babies of their own, so that their two biological White children are raised in a multiracial household in which they are outnumbered by four Black adoptive ‘siblings’, we can begin to see the roots of Rachel Dolezal’s confused and distorted sense of identity.

The Dolezal’s are undoubtedly well meaning people and having had two children of their own, thereby replacing themselves for their posterity, they were no doubt motivated by the moral universalism of the Christian upbringing to want to do ‘good work’ by providing a home to disadvantaged Black children. What they failed to understand however, is that by doing so, they would create the kind of conditions that would inevitably have an adverse impact upon the sense of identity their own children, especially their one female child as women tend to be more susceptible to subliminal suggestion and to social peer pressure.

Having created the conditions in which their daughter grew up wanting to be Black like her four Black adoptive siblings and wanting to be ‘cool and Black’ in the way Black people are portrayed in the mass media, the Dolezals apparently failed to realise the confused sense of identity which lay latent within their daughter’s psyche until she was in her twenties and began to manifest an obsession with Black and African culture and later began the process of changing her appearance from White to Black.

Worse still, it seems, having effectively set their daughter off on a trajectory in life upon which she would almost inevitably lead a perverse existence, the Dolezal’s waited until Rachel Dolezal had established a career for herself based upon her false identity, and then in a very high profile way, pulled the rug out from under her by publicly exposing her as a fraud. I cannot imagine a greater cruelty that parents could inflict upon the evidently tortured mind of their child – it beggars belief!

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We come now to the issue of the hypocrisy of the media and the political establishment in terms of their reaction to Rachel Dolezal having been ‘outed’ as a White person by her family.

In keeping with their liberal and Marxist ideology the mass media and our political establishment repeatedly expound the falsehoods that ‘race is a social construct’, that ‘there is no such thing as racial purity’, that ‘racial differences are merely cosmetic’, i.e. ‘skin deep’ and that we are all ‘fungible’, ‘interchangeable’ members of the human race. If these assertions are true however, then Rachel Dolezal should be free to claim to be any racial identity she chooses and should be heralded as an example of what can be achieved in life, to be whatever we want to be, without limitations imposed by ‘race, creed or colour’.

Instead of considering whether or not to prosecute or take other legal action against Rachel Dolezal for misrepresentation, and instead of taking offence that she has employed ‘blackface’ to insultingly impersonate a Black person, the liberal/Marxist establishment and their acolytes in the NAACP should logically recognise that Rachel Dolezal and anyone else for that matter, can legitimately ‘socially construct’ any racial identity she likes. She has made the ‘cosmetic’ changes necessary to have the appearance of a Black woman, so why is she any less a Black woman than someone whose genetic composition gave them the appearance of a Black woman? If there is no such thing as racial purity as multiracialists and non-White advocates claim, then logically Rachel Dolezal must be ‘of mixed race’ at the very least, and therefore should able to legitimately claim to be a ‘woman of colour’.

The fact that Rachel Dolezal is being denounced as a fraud is rank hypocrisy on the part of the mass media, the political establishment, and the NAACP. Unless of course, race is not a social construct and the concept of race and racial differences have legitimacy and go deeper than ‘skin deep’. Unless of course there is such a thing as racial purity and obviously based upon her genetic heritage Rachel Dolezal is a pure bred member of the White race, and unless of course, all humans are not fungible and mutually interchangeable.

For my part, I view Rachel Dolezal as a victim of a society in a state of decay, but herein lies the dilemma that now faces those liberal/Marxists who attempt to delude us with their deliberate falsehoods: do they continue to denounce Rachel Dolezal as a fraud or do they embrace her as a standard bearer of their corrupt and fraudulent belief-system?

For us nationalists, the lesson to be learned from all of this is that we must value community with those of our kind as the key to maintaining pride in our culture, social cohesion and a healthy sense of group and individual identity. Let us make sure that we imbue our children with respect and admiration for our forebears, a strong sense of comradeship and belonging with other racially conscious White people, and a feeling of optimism for the future. No more Rachel Dolezals!