"Why I Miss Rachel Dolezal" - The Root
July 9, 2015 2:12 AM Subscribe
"She was here for moment and then, like lightning bugs and cheap gas, she was gone. And I miss her."
Related media on the story and more general issues of racial diversity in the PNW:
What Rachel Dolezal Left Behind - "This is not a story about Dolezal. It's about Spokane, my hometown.", National Journal
New Spokane NAACP president wants group to move forward - "When Spokane’s NAACP President Naima Quarles-Burnley talks about Rachel Dolezal, she cries. [...] 'I saw in Rachel maybe my younger self,' she said. 'Passionate, involved, all-in for social justice. Sometimes sacrificing self-care, sometimes sacrificing family, sometimes not wanting to compromise, or often looking for ways to demonstrate as opposed to discuss.' ”, The Spokesman-Review
Want to Meet America’s Worst Racists? Come to the Northwest - "[...] tucked away in the Pacific Northwest of the United States is a vicious group that most people have never heard of but the nation’s most virulent online racists know well (among them, accused South Carolina murderer Dylann Roof, who wrote about the group in his now-infamous 'manifesto').", Politico
Racial Differences in the Evaluation and Treatment of Hepatitis C Among Veterans: A Retrospective Cohort Study - "Results. Blacks were less than half as likely as Whites to receive antiviral treatment", Am J Public Health. 2008 May; 98(5): 846–852.
US Census data: Black concentration 2010, Health Coverage for the Black Population Today and Under the Affordable Care Act
Previously, Previouslyier, Meta
[...] I miss the Rachel Dolezal story and the barbershop conversation that started almost like a fable—the one about the white girl faking black in all her sister-girlness, because the Rachel Dolezal story allowed for a very real conversation on race without anyone dying.
Related media on the story and more general issues of racial diversity in the PNW:
What Rachel Dolezal Left Behind - "This is not a story about Dolezal. It's about Spokane, my hometown.", National Journal
New Spokane NAACP president wants group to move forward - "When Spokane’s NAACP President Naima Quarles-Burnley talks about Rachel Dolezal, she cries. [...] 'I saw in Rachel maybe my younger self,' she said. 'Passionate, involved, all-in for social justice. Sometimes sacrificing self-care, sometimes sacrificing family, sometimes not wanting to compromise, or often looking for ways to demonstrate as opposed to discuss.' ”, The Spokesman-Review
Want to Meet America’s Worst Racists? Come to the Northwest - "[...] tucked away in the Pacific Northwest of the United States is a vicious group that most people have never heard of but the nation’s most virulent online racists know well (among them, accused South Carolina murderer Dylann Roof, who wrote about the group in his now-infamous 'manifesto').", Politico
Racial Differences in the Evaluation and Treatment of Hepatitis C Among Veterans: A Retrospective Cohort Study - "Results. Blacks were less than half as likely as Whites to receive antiviral treatment", Am J Public Health. 2008 May; 98(5): 846–852.
US Census data: Black concentration 2010, Health Coverage for the Black Population Today and Under the Affordable Care Act
Previously, Previouslyier, Meta
This post was deleted for the following reason: In the long, touchy MetaTalk thread you linked, mods and others have expressed strong concern that any thread on this may be difficult to have go well at all, and frankly I'm not aware that the parameters have changed enough at this time to give it a go anyway, sorry. -- goodnewsfortheinsane
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