Welcome to the Real World, Rachel Dolezal

Rachel Doleal

“Welcome to the Real World, Rachel DolezaL”

(The Real World of being Black)

By Glenn Peppers                                                            July 22, 2015

Let me start out by saying, Rachel! My dear Rachel Dolezal. You did say that you identified with being black, didn't you? Oh I get it. Up until recently, you only identified with just some of the most pleasant parts of being black! 

Oh ok, now I get it! All of a sudden, Rachel Dolezal is entering into the other half of being black. The Real World of being Black! The world of Discrimination, Ostracization, Oppression, Racial Profiling (despite how good of a person you are). You're experiencing Segregation, Denial of Advancement. And of course, Denial from whites that you are even being discriminated against, and left out of the equation. 

You never really had a clue about what it is like to be black, did you? I mean, Really be Black! Of course not! Being black means facing the very real possibility of Police brutality, and of course, in your case, Job Discrimination, just to name a very few things! Rachel, maybe now you know that being black isn't all about braids, attitude and fashion trends. Being black carries a burden inside that comes with 500 years of ancestral oppression burned deep into your soul! You couldn’t possibly relate to this haunting feeling! 

This ancestral oppressed burden brings along with it a strange connection that runs deeper than any surface attitude or ethnic appearance that the world could ever comprehend! Being black isn't some Pop Culture fad drenched in Motown music and Hip Hop! Being black isn't about all the sellout shuckin' and jivin' and cooning you see and hear black folks do in media who know nothing about why they act the way they do, reducing our culture and accomplishments by decades by what they reflect on TV and in our music now days!

Sellout negative images of black women on Reality TV

Being black isn't about black folk singing and moonwalking! Being black is not about fake reality TV shows, and hair weaves and twerking! Being black runs deeper than any thing you can imagine a people to be who were once considered kings and queens in their own land of Africa. Being black means that you and your kind (byway of slavery and captivity and centuries of conditioning) have been reduced down to mere pawns on a european chessboard of power, commerce, and subjugation onto human degradation! My dear Rachel, in claiming to be black, you have jumped from the fire into the frying pan! Its gettin' a lil' hot in the kitchen, huh Rachel! 

So hot in fact that maybe now I’m betting that you'll be wanting to shed the braids and lose the tan about now! Maybe now you'll take some of the attitude out of your voice as you over emphasize what you think are, real black gestures, and real black emotions in order to fit in! Break out your perfect diction and annunciation Rachel, and lose the inner city swag that you've grown accustom to putting on. For it was all an illusion! Believe me, you were only playing at being black! Your european soul and roots tell a far different story about you.

In my best Hannibal Lecter voice I say, "Run Rachel Dolezal! Now run, and fly, far far away! Go back to your nice clean café tables in suburbia, and your world totally lacking of any corporate glass ceilings, and employment opportunity barriers based on skin color! Run dear Rachel, and feel free to drive anywhere in these continental United States cities under the guise of, Rachel Dolezal, White Woman! Free and proud! For in doing so, you'll go about your way virtually unbothered from sea to shinning sea!" 

I have no doubt that you'll find work when you awaken and eventually drift back across the tracks of your mind. Awaken Rachel Doleza, and reconnect with who you really are! I have no doubt that wherever you end up, you'll be accepted by your kind! You'll be hired to do whatever it is you want to do in this great big world that your kind control! Signpost ahead! What does it read? "Thank you Rachel Dolezal for visiting Africa-Ville! Hope you enjoyed your stay!" 

As you continue driving, you see another sign ahead. It says, "Welcome Rachel Dolezal! You are now entering Reality-Ville! We've been waiting for you!"

Glenn Peppers