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it's weird how liberals support this complete and utter waste of taxpayers dollars for a "jobs" program that has no net benefits in the name of security, but dont support a wall, that is a "jobs" bill that will also increase our security substantially.
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Security from what? Being invaded by Mexico? That wall isn't gonna stop illegal immigration or smugglers. Just plant a bunch of sensor posts in the ground where the wall was gonna be and you would do a better job of stopping both smugglers and illegal immigrants while saving a lot of money.
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Rachel Dolezal on being ‘trans-black’
POSTED 7:50 AM, MARCH 30, 2017, BY DAN MANNARINO
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NEW YORK — Race and social justice activist Rachel Dolezal was fired from the NAACP because she led others to believe she was black, though she was born to white parents.
That revelation two years ago thrust Dolezal, now 40, into the spotlight and sparked a national discussion on race.
“I was presented as a liar and a con and fraud,” she told PIX11 News in an interview Wednesday.
Dolezal hopes to close that chapter of her life with the book “In Full Color: Finding My Place in a Black and White World,” which is out now.
At the age of 4, Dolezal said she began to identify as black, finally accepting what she said is her true self at age 26.
“Race is not defined or understood. Race, culture and ethnicity get into one lump of conversation,” she said. “If a form provides multiple boxes, I’ll check white, native and black. That’s acknowledging how I was born, how I identify. If I select one only, I’ll select black.”
In her book, Dolezal recalls growing up as a white girl to white parents in a home isolated from society with no television.
“It wouldn’t have been too much of a stretch to call me an indentured servant,” she wrote.
Dolezal said her childhood was one without “fun,” characterized by labor. She said in a way, her parents charged her for her childhood.
Now, she said, she identifies as trans-black, a term she wishes people will embrace and accept.
Moving forward, she plans to go by her new name, Nkechi Amare Diallo, which she legally changed last year and is a West African moniker that means “gift from the gods.” That name change, she said, was inspired, in part, to give her a better chance of finding work.
Have there been reality TV offers? Yes.
However, “I will not exploit myself further,” Dolezal said.
“I’m not trying to make money off the identity thing. I want to feed my kids. I hope to sell books, at this point,” she said.
Rachel Dolezal talks to PIX11 about new book and being ?trans-black? | New York's PIX11 / WPIX-TV
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Sadly, you're not the first:
Rachel Dolezal on being ‘trans-black’
POSTED 7:50 AM, MARCH 30, 2017, BY DAN MANNARINO
NEW YORK — Race and social justice activist Rachel Dolezal was fired from the NAACP because she led others to believe she was black, though she was born to white parents.
That revelation two years ago thrust Dolezal, now 40, into the spotlight and sparked a national discussion on race.
“I was presented as a liar and a con and fraud,” she told PIX11 News in an interview Wednesday.
Dolezal hopes to close that chapter of her life with the book “In Full Color: Finding My Place in a Black and White World,” which is out now.
At the age of 4, Dolezal said she began to identify as black, finally accepting what she said is her true self at age 26.
“Race is not defined or understood. Race, culture and ethnicity get into one lump of conversation,” she said. “If a form provides multiple boxes, I’ll check white, native and black. That’s acknowledging how I was born, how I identify. If I select one only, I’ll select black.”
In her book, Dolezal recalls growing up as a white girl to white parents in a home isolated from society with no television.
“It wouldn’t have been too much of a stretch to call me an indentured servant,” she wrote.
Dolezal said her childhood was one without “fun,” characterized by labor. She said in a way, her parents charged her for her childhood.
Now, she said, she identifies as trans-black, a term she wishes people will embrace and accept.
Moving forward, she plans to go by her new name, Nkechi Amare Diallo, which she legally changed last year and is a West African moniker that means “gift from the gods.” That name change, she said, was inspired, in part, to give her a better chance of finding work.
Have there been reality TV offers? Yes.
However, “I will not exploit myself further,” Dolezal said.
“I’m not trying to make money off the identity thing. I want to feed my kids. I hope to sell books, at this point,” she said.
Rachel Dolezal talks to PIX11 about new book and being ?trans-black? New York's PIX11 / WPIX-TV
This lady just confounds me...
Rachel Dolezal on being ‘trans-black’
POSTED 7:50 AM, MARCH 30, 2017, BY DAN MANNARINO
click to play
NEW YORK — Race and social justice activist Rachel Dolezal was fired from the NAACP because she led others to believe she was black, though she was born to white parents.
That revelation two years ago thrust Dolezal, now 40, into the spotlight and sparked a national discussion on race.
“I was presented as a liar and a con and fraud,” she told PIX11 News in an interview Wednesday.
Dolezal hopes to close that chapter of her life with the book “In Full Color: Finding My Place in a Black and White World,” which is out now.
At the age of 4, Dolezal said she began to identify as black, finally accepting what she said is her true self at age 26.
“Race is not defined or understood. Race, culture and ethnicity get into one lump of conversation,” she said. “If a form provides multiple boxes, I’ll check white, native and black. That’s acknowledging how I was born, how I identify. If I select one only, I’ll select black.”
In her book, Dolezal recalls growing up as a white girl to white parents in a home isolated from society with no television.
“It wouldn’t have been too much of a stretch to call me an indentured servant,” she wrote.
Dolezal said her childhood was one without “fun,” characterized by labor. She said in a way, her parents charged her for her childhood.
Now, she said, she identifies as trans-black, a term she wishes people will embrace and accept.
Moving forward, she plans to go by her new name, Nkechi Amare Diallo, which she legally changed last year and is a West African moniker that means “gift from the gods.” That name change, she said, was inspired, in part, to give her a better chance of finding work.
Have there been reality TV offers? Yes.
However, “I will not exploit myself further,” Dolezal said.
“I’m not trying to make money off the identity thing. I want to feed my kids. I hope to sell books, at this point,” she said.
Rachel Dolezal talks to PIX11 about new book and being ?trans-black? New York's PIX11 / WPIX-TV
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I honestly can't understand why this hasn't exploded like a thermo-SJW warhead.
Is it possible that we have found the event-horizon between "That's cultural appropriation" and "I self-identify as (x) and you have to respect that"?
Is it possible that we have found the event-horizon between "That's cultural appropriation" and "I self-identify as (x) and you have to respect that"?
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I keep self-identifying as Angela Merkel, but thus far, the EU, the UN, and the US State Dept have all refused to recognize my true identity, and that offends me. I suppose eventually I'll have to travel to Berlin and appeal directly to the Bundestag for recognition.
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Leftists claim you can self identify as anything you want these days because, hey, it’s 2016. Feelings are more important than silly ole things like facts… Or science (see Trans-Species? Meet the Grown Men Who Identify as Dogs…). The self-identification knows no bounds. But what about a spry millennial who wakes up one day and decides he wants to identify as a senior citizen? His heart tells him that he’s 65+ on Wednesdays. Because senior discounts.
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But Russia?!
Intelligence official who 'unmasked' Trump associates is 'very high up,' source says | Fox News
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Intelligence official who 'unmasked' Trump associates is 'very high up,' source says | Fox News
The U.S. intelligence official who “unmasked,” or exposed, the names of multiple private citizens affiliated with the Trump team is someone “very well known, very high up, very senior in the intelligence world,” a source told Fox News on Friday.
Intelligence and House sources with direct knowledge of the disclosure of classified names told Fox News that House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., now knows who is responsible -- and that person is not in the FBI.
For a private citizen to be “unmasked,” or named, in an intelligence report is extremely rare. Typically, the American is a suspect in a crime, is in danger or has to be named to explain the context of the report.
“The main issue in this case, is not only the unmasking of these names of private citizens, but the spreading of these names for political purposes that have nothing to do with national security or an investigation into Russia’s interference in the U.S. election,” a congressional source close to the investigation told Fox News.
The unmasking of Americans whose communications apparently were caught up in surveillance under the Obama administration is a key part of an investigation being led by Nunes, who has come under fire from Democrats for focusing on that aspect.
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Intelligence and House sources with direct knowledge of the disclosure of classified names told Fox News that House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., now knows who is responsible -- and that person is not in the FBI.
For a private citizen to be “unmasked,” or named, in an intelligence report is extremely rare. Typically, the American is a suspect in a crime, is in danger or has to be named to explain the context of the report.
“The main issue in this case, is not only the unmasking of these names of private citizens, but the spreading of these names for political purposes that have nothing to do with national security or an investigation into Russia’s interference in the U.S. election,” a congressional source close to the investigation told Fox News.
The unmasking of Americans whose communications apparently were caught up in surveillance under the Obama administration is a key part of an investigation being led by Nunes, who has come under fire from Democrats for focusing on that aspect.
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"We expect the people who come to us to stick to our laws."
Merkel said it was paramount that new arrivals respected and understood the liberal values of modern Germany such as tolerance, openness, freedom of religion and freedom of opinion.
Merkel said it was paramount that new arrivals respected and understood the liberal values of modern Germany such as tolerance, openness, freedom of religion and freedom of opinion.