Activist who allegedly faked her racial identity quits her day job

A woman who had converted to Islam had been doing a Rachel Dolezal and lying for years about her ethnic identify, but it finally caught up to her. She claimed to be a woman of color but it turns out that she is not a member of an oppressed racial minority, and is therefore not entitled to intersectional creds. Putting it simply, she's White and the only intersectional creds she has earned is her gender.  

The woman, Raquel Saraswati, 39, has resigned from her position as senior inclusion officer of a social justice group in Philadelphia.

“Raquel Saraswati, who is facing public allegations that she misrepresented her background and past associations, has informed us of her intention to separate from the organization,” American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) rep Layne Mullett told USA Today.

Saraswati was born Rachel Elizabeth Seidel but changed her name and religion and was the chief equity, inclusion and cultural officer of the activist group that fights “violence, inequality and oppression.”

Saraswati was outed by The Intercept for posing as a Latina, South Asian and of Arab descent. Her mother, Carole Perone, told The Intercept that Rachel is really German, British and Italian descent and has no idea why her White daughter claims to be someone she is not.

“I call her Rachel. I don’t know why she’s doing what she’s doing,” Perone said. “I’m as white as the driven snow and so is she.”

Ironically, Rachel is gay and converted to Islam, which is quite intolerant of gay and lesbian practices. In fact, if she was living in an Islamic country such as Saudi Arabia, she might be severely punished if caught 'lesbianing.'

Mullett told USA Today in an email that AFSC supports Saraswati and described her decision to leave the outfit as “difficult” and “deeply personal.”

And likely, highly embarrassing.

Saraswati, who appears to have deleted or locked most of her social media accounts, told the Daily Beast that she wanted “to maintain discretion” regarding her employment, but did not say that she was highly embarrassed over being caught as a liar.

“I have carried out my work at AFSC with integrity and sincere commitment, moving forward many aspects of organizational culture,” she lied. 

“I will be handling this phase of my relationship with AFSC with the same level of thoughtfulness, [lack of veracity] and care as I did [other] important matters,” Saraswati said.

“I am currently taking the time I need both with loved ones as well as with professional counsel to ensure that the doors are soon closed on this,” she added.

Last week, AFSC human resources official Oskar Pierre Castro, who hired Saraswati for her diversity leadership role, said he felt “conned” and deceived” by the revelations, because he was.

He believed she was a “queer, Muslim, multiethnic woman” because that’s what she said she was.

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Latino, Latina, Latinx: Hispanics ready to kick a word into the woke trash bin

It isn't about the minorities the left claims they want to help; it's about the left feeling good about themselves in spite of how minorities [aka the victim class according to the left] feel about the "help" they didn't ask for and generally don't need. 

Native Americans [not including Elizabeth Warren] never voiced a negative reaction to sports teams that with names that referred to them such as the Washington Redskins or the Cleveland Indians, for example. It only became an issue when woke White leftists brought it up as if it was a racist term, and then some Native Americans suddenly saw it as such, because 25 percent of any group of people are boobs with no exceptions. 

For the left, racism is their Swiss Army knife, Kurt Schlichter and others have said.

Rather than going against the woke flow, the Washington Redskins eventually became the Washington Football Team [what creativity] and the Cleveland Indians became the Cleveland Guardians. As a basehall team, one has to wonder just what it is they are guarding--their balls? Their bats?

So while some groups caved to the demands of white woke supremacists who got their demands fulfilled, several Latino organizations are now demanding to effectively cancel the use of the bull crap term "Latinx" in official documents etc., because it isn't a word as far as the people it pretends to refer to see it.

Virtually no one in the Latino community cares a fig for the pretentious 'gender-neutral' term. Spanish, like many other languages, use gender-specific terms and it's insulting for elite progressives to change it and elected officials, and the oldest Latino civil rights organizations in America, and the Miami Herald has spoken out against the term to describe people of Spanish-speaking origin.

The results of their anger is being seen in the way Latino voters have moved away from the Democratic Party, which is a deep matter of concern as their voting block grows much larger. It shows how Latinos want to self-define rather than have outsiders define them. 

Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ), head of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus’ campaign arm, announced last month his congressional staff is not to use “Latinx” in official communications. 

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Days after Gallego’s tweet, Domingo García, president of the League of United Latin American Citizens, instructed staff and board members to drop the word “Latinx” from the group’s official communications, NBC Latino’s Suzanne Gamboa reported.

The Miami Herald, a left-leaning tabloid, wrote in an editorial last month that liberals needed to stop using the term primarily because it wasn’t popular with Latinos, but more importantly, that it helped the GOP make inroads with the Latino community, especially in Florida, a critical battleground state.

The Latino community is finally beginning to see that Democrats would rather be "woke" than be concerned about them.

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