JJ_BPK
06-20-2015, 05:49
Very interesting read,, BUT read this at risk,, You need to do some home work to get a more rounded education on the topic, before becoming opinionated...
As soon as the Dolezal story popped, I started thinking about the "parent" issues that could have lead to this scenario. It didn't seem right that these parents sat on the problem for so long.
Now the problem is, as I see it, is to not to condemn home schooling nor the adoption process.
Like anything the 98% good has a hard time offsetting the 2% a$$ho's, who get the PR..
1st thought would be, make it go away, it's only giving 15 minutes of fame to a topic that needs fixing.
But based on some of the quoted material, some people have had a problem with the topic for a long time...
????????
Let’s Talk about Rachel Dolezal’s Parents
June 17, 2015 by Libby Anne 680 Comments
By now you have surely all heard of Rachel Dolezal, who resigned earlier this week from her position as head of the Spokane chapter of the NAACP after her parents revealed that she is in fact white. For years now, Rachel had been passing herself off as black. What Rachel did is inexcusable. She lied to people and violated their trust, she engaged in cultural appropriation and perhaps even plagiarism, and she used her assumed blackness to her advantage and for her own personal gain.
I refuse to follow any of this with a “but.” There is no but.
This story broke after Rachel’s parents were approached by a reporter with questions about Rachel. They told they truth, they say, because they refuse to participate in Rachel’s lies. But is that their only motivation? If they were so interested in truth, why didn’t they speak out about Rachel’s identity before now? In order to understand more about Rachel’s parents and their motivations, we need to look at Rachel’s upbringing and her parents’ religious beliefs. And here we enter the world I grew up in, a tangle of conservative Christian homeschooling, religious child abuse, pro-life activism, and international adoption as a domestic mission field.
Like me, Rachel was homeschooled and grew up in a religious family. Her parents used a conservative Christian curriculum provided by Christian Liberty Academy Satellite School, a curriculum that, rumor has it, came with an HSLDA membership and a copy of To Train Up a Child. The family were strong young earth creationists, and Rachel’s father worked for Creation Ministries International. Beginning in the mid-1990s, Rachel’s parents began adopting black babies, reportedly in an attempt to affirm their pro-life stance. It is not uncommon for evangelicals to adopt as a way of creating an in-home mission field.
For those who are familiar with this subculture, you probably know where this is going. The CLASS curriculum is recommended by white supremacists, and as Kathryn Joyce has documented, black children adopted into evangelical families are often treated in a highly racialized way, punished more harshly than their white siblings and taught to denigrate their own culture. There were so many red flags in this story that I was antsy even before I read the following from Homeschoolers
link: continued (http://www.patheos.com/blogs/lovejoyfeminism/2015/06/lets-talk-about-rachel-dolezals-parents.html#sthash.QJmKLaWi.dpuf)
Wonder if the MSM will pick it up and run with it??
As soon as the Dolezal story popped, I started thinking about the "parent" issues that could have lead to this scenario. It didn't seem right that these parents sat on the problem for so long.
Now the problem is, as I see it, is to not to condemn home schooling nor the adoption process.
Like anything the 98% good has a hard time offsetting the 2% a$$ho's, who get the PR..
1st thought would be, make it go away, it's only giving 15 minutes of fame to a topic that needs fixing.
But based on some of the quoted material, some people have had a problem with the topic for a long time...
????????
Let’s Talk about Rachel Dolezal’s Parents
June 17, 2015 by Libby Anne 680 Comments
By now you have surely all heard of Rachel Dolezal, who resigned earlier this week from her position as head of the Spokane chapter of the NAACP after her parents revealed that she is in fact white. For years now, Rachel had been passing herself off as black. What Rachel did is inexcusable. She lied to people and violated their trust, she engaged in cultural appropriation and perhaps even plagiarism, and she used her assumed blackness to her advantage and for her own personal gain.
I refuse to follow any of this with a “but.” There is no but.
This story broke after Rachel’s parents were approached by a reporter with questions about Rachel. They told they truth, they say, because they refuse to participate in Rachel’s lies. But is that their only motivation? If they were so interested in truth, why didn’t they speak out about Rachel’s identity before now? In order to understand more about Rachel’s parents and their motivations, we need to look at Rachel’s upbringing and her parents’ religious beliefs. And here we enter the world I grew up in, a tangle of conservative Christian homeschooling, religious child abuse, pro-life activism, and international adoption as a domestic mission field.
Like me, Rachel was homeschooled and grew up in a religious family. Her parents used a conservative Christian curriculum provided by Christian Liberty Academy Satellite School, a curriculum that, rumor has it, came with an HSLDA membership and a copy of To Train Up a Child. The family were strong young earth creationists, and Rachel’s father worked for Creation Ministries International. Beginning in the mid-1990s, Rachel’s parents began adopting black babies, reportedly in an attempt to affirm their pro-life stance. It is not uncommon for evangelicals to adopt as a way of creating an in-home mission field.
For those who are familiar with this subculture, you probably know where this is going. The CLASS curriculum is recommended by white supremacists, and as Kathryn Joyce has documented, black children adopted into evangelical families are often treated in a highly racialized way, punished more harshly than their white siblings and taught to denigrate their own culture. There were so many red flags in this story that I was antsy even before I read the following from Homeschoolers
link: continued (http://www.patheos.com/blogs/lovejoyfeminism/2015/06/lets-talk-about-rachel-dolezals-parents.html#sthash.QJmKLaWi.dpuf)
Wonder if the MSM will pick it up and run with it??