Self Identification As Another Race

My passing comment in another post about Canadian icon Buffy Sainte-Marie's claim to be a native indigenous American being challenged ...

Buffy Sainte Marie - Sesame Street

..... ended with me asking why so many white women make these sorts of claims. 

Self Identified Race Activists

This is Lidia Alma Thorpe, Senator for the Greens in Victoria State, Australia ....

Lidia Thorpe - Australian Green Senator

I wouldn't have guessed this from looking at her, but she states that her heritage is of  DjabWurrung, Gunnai, and Gunditjmara first Australian nation descent, and that she left school at 14 because she experienced racism as an 'Aboriginal girl' being called a 'Chico baby, coon, Abo'.