Anyway, if you believe someone can change their sex (oops, I mean "gender") then go ahead and identify as any race you like. As we are told so often, race is just a social construct so why not Gender?
"It may seem strange to the writer of the article, but Dolezal changed her race in order to collect the advantages."
I don't think that would sound strange to Ijeoma at all. Her points seems to be that Dolezal's exploitation of those advantages is possible because she still looks like a white woman. That if you actually have to look black, and walk around black those "advantages" aren't real. It's would take a white woman to get "black privilege" if it exists, because it's constructed in White imagination. An NAACP job and a small time gig teaching black history isn't much of a haul, privilege-wise.
Anyway, if you believe someone can change their sex (oops, I mean "gender") then go ahead and identify as any race you like. As we are told so often, race is just a social construct so why not Gender?
I don't think that would sound strange to Ijeoma at all. Her points seems to be that Dolezal's exploitation of those advantages is possible because she still looks like a white woman. That if you actually have to look black, and walk around black those "advantages" aren't real. It's would take a white woman to get "black privilege" if it exists, because it's constructed in White imagination. An NAACP job and a small time gig teaching black history isn't much of a haul, privilege-wise.