I don’t get the outrage.

Shouldn’t women like this be applauded for voluntarily renouncing their white privilege and choosing to be oppressed?

Washington Times:

Rachel Dolezal has a Quaker rival.

A top inclusion official of the Quakers’ progressive social-justice group, who presents herself as a Muslim woman of color, is “as White as the driven snow,” her mother says.

According to a report in the Intercept, Raquel Evita Saraswati, 39, is the chief equity, inclusion and culture officer of the American Friends Service Committee, which battles “violence, inequality and oppression.”

From this agitprop group’s channel

But Ms. Saraswati, who was born Rachel Elizabeth Seidel, has been lying about her ethnic background for years, according to her mother Carol Perone.

“I call her Rachel,” Ms. Perone told The Intercept. “I don’t know why she’s doing what she’s doing.”

The Intercept reported, citing numerous links to her former blog posts and media interviews, that Ms. Saraswati is a Muslim activist who “for years has encouraged people to believe that she is a woman of color, including Latina as well as of South Asian and Arab descent.”

Nonsense, her mother says.

“I’m as White as the driven snow and so is she,” she said.

“I’m German and British, and her father was Calabrese Italian,” Ms. Perone added. “She’s chosen to live a lie, and I find that very, very sad.

The Intercept also reported that it had been shown by her mother, though it did not show them, photos of Ms. Saraswati as a girl.

“Saraswati’s complexion is significantly lighter than the bronzed look in more recent photographs,” the Intercept wrote. “Another relative who asked not to be identified confirmed that Saraswati is white.”

The mother did note that her daughter converted to Islam in high school but still seemed to want to portray her ethnicity differently, despite Islam being a universal religion that Whites can embrace.

An official who had helped hire Ms. Saraswati told the Intercept he had been misled.

Oskar Pierre Castro, who works for Philadelphia Yearly Meeting and participated in the search committee that hired Ms. Sarawati told the Intercept that she had presented herself as a “queer, Muslim, multiethnic woman.”

“It really touched all the points,” he said.

He thought she would be ideal as a diversity and inclusion officer because “it seemed that there was an element of lived experience.”

“In my mind it was, ‘Great, a person of color, a queer person of color, who happens to be a Muslim, it’s a woman, all these things, and someone who seemed to get it. I definitely feel conned … deceived,”he said.

Ms. Saraswati did not respond to the Intercept’s requests for comment via email, phone and social media.

She also protected her Twitter account by Tuesday afternoon. And Facebook posts purporting to link to her account said the content was not available.

Layne Mullett, a spokesperson for the AFSC, said the Committee had information alleging misrepresentation of her identity.

“AFSC has given Raquel the opportunity to address the allegations against her, and Raquel stands by her identity,” the Committee said in a statement.

“AFSC does not require any employee to ‘prove’ their heritage as a condition of their employment, or in order to be valued as a member of our team,” the statement said.

Others outside the group weren’t so forgiving.

Philadelphian Layla Rafaoui, who claimed to have mutual friends with Ms. Saraswati, called out “no more [white] women leading spaces for diversity while misrepresenting their cultural background and knowledge. Inshallah.”

The other thing here is: why are you allowed to change your sex but not your race?

Neo-Nazis (feminists) will rage when you say it, but it’s simply a biological fact that there is a much bigger difference between a white man and a white woman than there is between a white man and a black man.

Changing sex is a much bigger leap in terms of basic scientific facts than changing race.

Why not embrace trans-racialism?

Is it because the affirmative action programs would stop functioning if genetic whites were able to apply as trans-niggas?

After Black Lives Matter oracles studied the patterns of fried chicken bones cast into the dirt, and stared deeply into the forms of crack incense smoke, they concluded that images of cheerful older black people serving you food is racist.

CNN:

Quaker Oats is retiring the more than 130-year-old Aunt Jemima brand and logo, acknowledging its origins are based on a racial stereotype.

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Uncle Ben’s owner Mars also said Wednesday that “now is the right time to evolve the Uncle Ben’s brand, including its visual brand identity, which we will do,” adding that “we don’t yet know what the exact changes and timing will be, but we are evaluating all possibilities.”

And Conagra, which makes Mrs. Butterworth’s, said it will conduct a complete brand and packaging review on the syrup brand. Conagra noted it “can see that our packaging may be interpreted in a way that is wholly inconsistent with our values.”

There have been repeated calls for Aunt Jemima to change its logo. In a 2015 opinion piece published in The New York Times, Cornell University professor Riché Richardson said the logo is “very much linked to Southern racism.”

In other words, no one asked for this, except for the New York Times. Certainly, no black people wanted this. Black people want to be served food by cheerful older black people more than anyone else.

Richardson said the Aunt Jemima logo is based on a “‘mammy,’ a devoted and submissive servant who eagerly nurtured the children of her white master and mistress while neglecting her own.” A statue of a slave mammy stereotype was approved by the US Senate in 1923, but it was never built.

The company also ran racist ads for several decades, with actresses personifying the mammy stereotype. It evolved the logo over the years, and even hired singer Gladys Knight as a spokeswoman in the 1990s. Today, Aunt Jemima describes itself as brand that stands for “warmth, nourishment and trust — qualities you’ll find in loving moms from diverse backgrounds who want the very best for their families.”

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Pepsi (PEP) hasn’t yet revealed a new logo or brand name for the breakfast items. That will debut in the fall. The Aunt Jemima brand was purchased by Quaker Oats in 1926. PepsiCo bought Quaker Oats in 2001.

Aunt Jemima brand will donate $5 million over the next five years “create meaningful, ongoing support and engagement in the Black community.” Earlier this week, Pepsi announced a $400 million set of initiatives to support the black community.

So, they are telling us that this is racist, because it reminds everyone of a time when white southerners affectionately called their black slaves “aunt” and “uncle” and had them engaged in cooking and looking after children while dressed up nicely.

As opposed to now, where the men run around shooting each other in jungle tribe drug wars, and the women are addicted to drugs and infected with herpes, while each of their kids has a different jungle warrior father and none of them are around.

Well, I guess if they want to live that way, that’s their business.

I remember, as a child, being phased by the loud, unpleasant behavior of blacks in the public schools, and seeing these brands in the supermarket. It was the first time in my life that I seriously thought that blacks and whites could get along well together and be mutually beneficial in a greater system.

So, I can see why they would have to get rid of that.