PROGRESSIVE GROUP ROILED BY ACCUSATIONS DIVERSITY LEADER MISREPRESENTED HER ETHNIC BACKGROUND

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MEMBERS OF THE American Friends Service Committee, a prominent Quaker organization known for its progressive values and social justice advocacy in the U.S. and abroad, have raised an alarm about a woman holding a leadership position within the organization who they say has misrepresented her ethnic background for years and who they fear may be working on behalf of groups seeking to undermine their organization.

Raquel Evita Saraswati, 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, is the AFSC’s chief equity, inclusion, and culture officer, a senior position that gives her access to the files of dozens of the organization’s staff and volunteers. But Saraswati, who was born Rachel Elizabeth Seidel, is not a person of color, according to her mother, Carol Perone.

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

 

https://theintercept.com/2023/02/16/american-friends-service-committee-raquel-saraswati/

 

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Georgette Santos.

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Oh look, it's Rachel Dolezal 2.0. So much investment in tanning and bronzer... must be expensive.

 

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1 minute ago, yuna628 said:

Oh look, it's Rachel Dolezal 2.0. So much investment in tanning and bronzer... must be expensive.

 

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I had thought of cross posting with the Beauty Thread.

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In the panacea the Left wants us to progress too, isn’t it all about personal identity?

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"Be all that you can be."   

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