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Al Sharpton Confronted About White NAACP Member Rachel Dolezal – And His Response is Just Too Good .......................................................................................................................................... By Michael Hausam ijreview.com By now, almost everyone in North America knows the story of Rachel Dolezal, the NAACP’s official response, and the things she did in the past that should’ve tipped folks off to her secret. But, what does Al Sharpton think about it? Thanks to TMZ and Mediaite, now we know. Here are Sharpton’s comments, put into bullet points for the sake of easy reference: “I think that, one, it’s not about her race.” “There are whites in all of our organizations and there are whites that died in the Civil Rights movement.” “I think the question they want to deal with is her honesty; you have to be transparent.” “But it’s not about whether or not she’s white or black, it’s about are you going to be honest and I think that’s the only question but her race is really irrelevant.” Let’s put aside that Sharpton, who could hypothetically be in hot water with the IRS for tax evasion, lectured Ms. Dolezal about “transparency.” Or that the man known for his involvement with the Tawana Brawley hoax tells Dolezal about “honesty.” It’s irrelevant whether or not an NAACP leader is black or white? “The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People”? The civil rights leader also offered some deeper-level criticism and it had to do with Dolezal’s parents’ involvement in outing her: You gotta to ask yourself, why would your mother and father after all this time come out? And what is that all about? At one level you gotta say to her, were you misleading us? But another level, mom and dad, come on! Are you really going to do this to your kid? Are we going to have this kind of dysfunctional family stuff play out and distract us from real civil rights causes? Come on dad. Come on mom. Be the adults here. And you’ve got to ask the question, what is mom and dad’s motive here? I mean, y’all just noticed she was in the NAACP? Where you been, mom and dad? CNN recently reported that the term ‘transracial’ is now trending on social media.