She can be whatever she wants. It's funny how society wants us to accept a man trying to be a women but not someone else who identifies with another culture.
Clearly the black people have some respect for her there, otherwise she wouldn't be president.
Normally, I'd agree. She isn't black - but if that's what allows her to sleep at night...
The problem is that she has used her claim of being black for hiring practices that are sensitive to race. For example - she has claimed to be black in an environment that is required to report its racial composition to the government for Equal Opportunity verification.
This is why us conservatives don't like big government.
Because, now, this has legal implications. We now must legally define race if our equal opportunity certifications (necessary for federal funding) are to mean anything. If I can just claim to be black, when I'm born of a primarily German lineage with most of my ancestors arriving here prior to 1900, and the federal government must accept that for their equal opportunity hiring and admittance standards...?
What's to stop various institutions from exploiting this and insisting that I simply check a box for an ethnic group the government recognizes (where's my "german" box?) just to round out their statistics and secure their federal funding?
Which is why the system shouldn't exist in the first place... but the system developed because people complained that the federal government was funding colleges and creating contracts with businesses that were racist.
Which is why the government shouldn't fund schools and only create contracts that are absolutely necessary.
Because race has both legal and financial consequences, it is not possible for us to simply allow people to report as whatever race they so desire.
Not that the activist groups will allow this. If groups like "black lives matter" can't distinguish their own race's problems as unique, then they lose their privileged status. They won't allow something as damning to their cause as 'you can be whatever race you want to be' to fly. They will end up frothing at the mouth over this.
