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Rachel Dolezal disinvited from Baltimore Book Festival after public backlash

2017-06-01

[FOXNEWS] Organizers for the Baltimore Book Festival announced Tuesday they disinvited Rachel Dolezal, the controversial white woman who represented herself as African American for years, to this year's event after receiving major public backlash.
Poor Rachel. She's convinced she's black. I had an aunt once who was convinced she was a chicken. We couldn't tell her otherwise; we needed the eggs.
Festival organizers released a statement on its Facebook page, citing reaction from attendees and authors as the reason for rescinding Dolezal's invitation.

"A top priority of the Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts is to listen to our constituents, and after hearing from a cross-section of opinions on having Rachel Dolezal participate in this year’s festival, we had to consider how her appearance may affect both the audience and the other extraordinary authors we have planned for the Baltimore Book Festival," the statement read.

Posted by:Fred

#5 they disinvited Rachel Dolezal. Next people will be de-friending her on FB. Some lefties are just not very tolerant. Maybe Rachel could write a book such as John Howard Griffin, a white man who wrote a book in the 1960s (entitled "Black Like Me.") Griffin colored his skin with methoxsalen (Oxsoralen) in 1959 to darken his skin for his race project. It was rumored that Griffin died from skin cancer but he died from diabetes. He did incur temporary and minor symptoms from taking the drug, especially fatigue and nausea. HIs book chronicled his experiences of traveling in the deep South as a black man.

Posted by: JohnQC 2017-06-01 15:36

#4 Soooo, can this be called racism?

Posted by: warthogswife 2017-06-01 12:15

#3 How many books has she sold?

Posted by: Abu Uluque 2017-06-01 11:46

Excellent point g(r)om. Everyone is Irish at least one day per year, right ?

Posted by: Besoeker 2017-06-01 07:06

#1 A man can become a woman, but a white woman can't become black - why?

Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2017-06-01 04:19

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