Her resignation means that someone was finally able to knock sense into Rachel Dolezal’s head. When she talked over the weekend of ‘addressing the situation at the Monday NAACP meeting, someone at NAACP went, “Whoa nelly! Cancel that meeting!”

There’s really nothing more to say.

Whatever your parents’ skin tone or racial history, this in no way relates to your own. (This is a tired 1950s prejudice sometimes called “science.”) It’s no secret that I, too, am trans-black — as is a friend of mine, social media activist Godfrey Elfwick. Transracialism is a more common condition than you think.

Of course, the British have a long history of transracial. Think ‘Grey Owl’.

And they paid the people
A big screen tv just to see them.
(h/t Mike)

If it’s good enough for pipelines: A small group of dispossessed aboriginals in Delta are laying claim to a vast swath of southern Vancouver Island and the Lower Mainland, including Stanley Park.
h/t Kevin B

Little known fact: The Mohawk language has 1,000 words for “identity”, and none for “irony”.

PS Mag;

From the results of early DNA studies in the late 1980s and early ’90s, scientists argued that anatomically modern humans evolved in Africa, and then expanded into Asia, Oceania, and Europe, beginning about 60,000 years ago. The idea was that modern humans colonized the rest of the world in a succession of small founding groups–each one a tiny sampling of the total modern human gene pool. These small, isolated groups settled new territory and replaced the archaic humans that lived there. As a result, humans in different parts of the world today have their own distinctive DNA signature, consisting of the genetic quirks of their ancestors who first settled the area, as well as the genetic adaptations to the local environment that evolved later.
This view of human history, called the “serial founder effect model,” has big implications for our understanding of how we came to be who we are. Most importantly, under this model, genetic differences between geographically separated human populations reflect deep branchings in the human family tree, branches that go back tens of thousands of years. It also declares that people have evolutionary adaptations that are matched to their geographical area, such as lighter skin in Asians and Europeans or high altitude tolerance among Andeans and Tibetans. With a few exceptions, such as the genetic mixing after Europeans colonized the Americas, our geography reflects our deep ancestry.
Well, it’s time to scrap this picture of human history…

h/t Kevin B