Montel Williams posted on a Facebook his thoughts on Rachel Donezal, and he doesn’t seem to be terribly supportive of the fake “trans-racial” white woman who deceived everyone into believing she was a black woman.
Here’s the post in its entirety:
So some lengthy thoughts on the #RachelDolezal saga. First, let me be the one to say – there is not a rational black American who wouldn’t welcome with open arms a white person (or a Hispanic, Asian, polka dotted person) who cares about the issues the black community as a whole faces and wants to devote themselves to the work of making positive change.
I fundamentally reject the comparison of Rachel Dolezal to Caitlyn Jenner. Jenner has NEVER denied she was born a man. Jenner has undergone a difficult if not impossible to reverse physical transformation to live her true gender – Dolezal, with some makeup remover and hair relaxer could, in short order, be Caucasian.
Again, I think this is about honesty, it’s about taking responsibility. When it suited her, she sued as a white woman – when it suited her otherwise she assumed the identity of a black woman. When she was called on it, she tried to use as many big words as possible to obfuscate it. With due respect, whom your biological parents are and whether they are white is not a “complex and multi layered discussion.” That is obfuscating the truth with big words.
I won’t speak for the Black community – which, much to the apparent surprise of some is incredibly diverse in thought. Personally, I think her problem is she hasn’t had a reckoning with the truth. The truth is she lied – she is not a victim on the basis that she finds the questions asked inconvenient. Jenner in contrast answered difficult questions from the heart and didn’t obfuscate one bit. She also took responsibility for her failures as a parent and the lies she told during her marriages to women.
I also wonder about her parents, who, have seemingly appeared in every media outlet known to human kind. I respect their need to be honest. I wonder at what point this became about running up the score.
Where I saw heartfelt honesty and insight into the mistakes of the past from Jenner I see self righteousness from Dolezal. I see a woman who is trying very hard to be the victim and one who seemingly finds victimization in whatever identity she assumes.
She’s also filed a multitude of apparently false police reports – even taking her story is true on its face, her “self identification” as black does not justify that sort of behavior which is dishonesty rising to the level of criminality.
I had hoped I’d see honesty and a plea for forgiveness. She claims she seeks acceptance – acceptance cannot be achieved in life without honesty.
I hope she gets the help she so clearly needs. This isn’t trans-race as much as its sans-honesty.
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has a long history of having had white leaders – she could have been one – she chose dishonesty.
Montel makes some great points, and even if you disagree with him at least you know he’s not lying to you, unlike Rachel Dolezal.