NPR posted an op ed piece over the weekend with the headline ‘Why Rachel Dolezal Can Never Be Black‘
There’s a pretty big problem with the piece in question, however. It’s far too lengthy!
The article clocks in at 1,136 words! That’s so many words!
Here is an example of the overabundance:
Blackness is a bright and shiny diamond, and here in America, everyone wants to wear it like a Rockafella chain around their neck. The attitude, the language, the humor, the music, the style, all of it is covetable, and everyone from the Kardashians (with their signature curvy bodies and thick, puffy lips) to cereal companies (with their hip-hop commercial jingles) to a white second-grade neighbor (twirling around in the yard singing Beyoncé’s latest hit) get high — and rich — off it.
This article should be two words long.
That’s why she can never be black. Not because race is fluid, not because of cultural appropriation or anything else. She was born as a white woman, to white parents, and thusly she is White. No need for over a thousand words, it’s very easy.
We just saved NPR 1,134 words, perhaps we will get a tax break?
