CNN’s Hill: White NAACP Leader Pretending To Be Black Is ‘White Privilege’
‘It speaks to a very dangerous practice of trying on someone’s identity, of trying on a marginalized notion of race whenever you want to’
CNN's Hill: White NAACP Leader Pretending to Be Black is 'White Privilege' (NewsBusters)
On Friday's Anderson Cooper 360, during a discussion of revelations that Seattle NAACP leader Rachel Dolezal is a white woman who has spent years pretending to be black, liberal CNN commentator Marc Lamont Hill oddly asserted that her actions constitute "the ultimate exercise in white privilege."
Ironically, after enumerating several reasons why blacks might want to pretend to be white for gain instead of the reverse, Hill ended up fretting that Dolezal might have deprived the university that hired her of being able to discriminate against her for being white if they wanted to hire an actual African-American to teach African-American studies.
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