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208326, Now we're getting somewhere.
Posted by Goldmind, Mon Jun-15-15 06:52 PM
>http://www.thelostdaughters.com/2015/06/transracial-lives-matter-rachel-dolezal.html

Here, finally, we have a definition for what it means to be transracial from the mouth of a transracial woman herself -- and not surprisingly, it differs greatly from the way you and other men in here are trying to portray it:

"The 'trans' in transracial for me, never meant my race changed. It meant I was a multiracial black girl, adopted into a white family. It meant I was taken without my consent from one home, one place of origin and put inside another family, another culture, another race, one that didn’t belong to me."


Here's what she says about white people who think they can bend the rules on race:

"These parents completely ignore that how they want race to function is not actually how race operates out in the world. They are completely assured of their own power to bend and change race and meanings of race at their own white whim. This manipulation is what Ms. Dolezal has done. This manipulation of race is no different from what white supremacists did in the early days of our country, moving the lines of race back and forth when it pleased them, using the language of the law, even at the cost of Black, Brown, Asian and Native lives."

Now this is the transracial conversation that we should be having.