Two more white women “use blackness”

We can add a couple more names to the list of white women who have used black privilege to their advantage.

From The Indy Star:

Satchuel Cole, leader in the fight for racial equality in Indianapolis, lied about own race

“Friends, I need to take accountability for my actions and the harm that I have done. My deception and lies have hurt those I care most about. I have taken up space as a Black person while knowing I am white. I have used Blackness when it was not mine to use. I have asked for support and energy as a Black person. I have caused harm to the city, friends and the work that I held so dear,” Cole posted on a Facebook page under the name Satch Paige.

And we read about yet another one, also a gender-confused female, at The Post Millennial:

White grad student pretending to be black apologizes and resigns from teaching position

As first reported by the Wisconsin State Journal, CV Vitolo-Haddad, whose non-binary pronouns are “they” and “them,” admitted to misrepresenting their race. The academic is Southern Italian and Sicilian, not black or Latino as they’ve previously purported.

As first reported by the Wisconsin State Journal, CV Vitolo-Haddad, whose non-binary pronouns are “they” and “them,” admitted to misrepresenting their race. The academic is Southern Italian and Sicilian, not black or Latino as they’ve previously purported.

“In trying to make sense of my experiences with race, I grossly misstepped,” Vitolo-Haddad wrote in a September 8 article on the blogging platform Medium. “I went along with however people saw me. I over-identified with unreliable and unproven family history and latched onto anything I remembered growing up.”

Add these two names to Rachel Dolezal and Jessica Krug, and we have a phenomenon that needs explaining.

If you type “pretending to be black” into the Google search bar, you’ll get over 27 million results. If you type in “pretending to be white,” you’ll get 287 million results – except that almost all of those results (at least on the first few pages) are of white people pretending to be black; there’s not a single example, that I could find, of a black person pretending to be white.

If white-privilege is so pervasive, we’d expect the opposite. Also, if you read Cole’s quote above, you ‘ll see that she refers to “using blackness.” How can one “use” something that is only a liability?

These women, all of whom have psychological issues, are living proof that black privilege is real. White privilege is not.

That being said, I don’t blame them for this particular sin. How many Jews pretended to be gentile in Nazi Germany? If you could pass as white in apartheid South Africa, wouldn’t you do so? To be white in today’s America is to belong to the lowest caste, and yes, this can be offset with money or status.

I would encourage as many white people as possible to pretend to be black. Doing so might have the effect of eroding the unjust caste system we now have in place.