Rachel Dolezal — the white former NAACP leader who believes she’s black — is doubling down with a legal name change to Nkechi Amare Diallo. The 39-year-old filed to adopt the West African moniker in Washington State … according to Daily Mail.…
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Wednesday, March 1, 2017
Rachel Dolezal: Totally Broke and Nearly Homeless!
Hey, remember Rachel Dolezal?
Of course you do — as long as you live, you will never be able to forget that white woman who built her entire life around pretending to be black.
Rachel was the president of her local NAACP chapter and she also taught African-American studies at a university, but that all fell apart when her parents began letting people know that she’s actually white.
Her story went viral with a hilariously uncomfortable interview in which she was asked if she was white. She said that she didn’t understand the question, then just bolted.
She maintained for a long time that she’s a black woman — and she still does.
But the issue these days is that holding onto that false identity is pretty much destroying her life.
Rachel did a lengthy interview with the Guardian to promote her upcoming book, titled In Full Color: Finding My Place in a Black and White World.
And boy, is it a doozy.
Rachel says that she is currently unemployed, and that she’s applied for 100 different jobs, but no one will hire her. Well, almost no one: she admits that she’s gotten offers in reality television and porn.
Things are so bad that while a friend helped her pay rent for February, she thinks she’ll probably end up homeless this month.
She had to submit her memoir to at least 30 different publishers before anyone would agree to print it.
“The narrative was that I’d offended both communities in an unforgivable way,” she explains, “so anybody who gave me a dime would be contributing to wrong and oppression and bad things. To a liar and a fraud and a con.”
Well …
Still, Rachel says that she wrote her book “to set the record straight,” but also “to open up this dialogue about race and identity, and to just encourage people to be exactly who they are.”
She had a rough childhood: she claims that her parents used to beat her and her older brother, and that the first time she ever truly felt love was when her parents adopted four babies when she was 15. Three were African-American, and one was Haitian.
She says she was the primary caretaker for all the new babies, and that as they grew up, “I began to see the world through black eyes.”
About the black vs. white struggle, or her struggle, anyway, she says that “I do think a more complex label would be helpful, but we don’t really have that vocabulary. I feel like the idea of being trans-black would be much more accurate than ‘I’m white.’ Because you know, I’m not white.”
But would she ever consider dropping the “trans-black” thing? Even if just to stop rubbing so many people the wrong way?
“No,” she insists. “This is still home to me. I didn’t feel like I’m ever going to be hurt so much that I somehow leave who I am, because I’m me. It really is who I am. It’s not a choice.”
Sure, Rachel. Sure.
Tuesday, October 6, 2015
Rihanna: Rachel Dolezal is a Hero!
Earlier today, we shared some highlights from Rihanna’s new Vanity Fair interview.
As always, the 27-year-old Barbadian songstress had plenty of surprising things to say.
For starters, she hates casual sex (not something we would’ve guessed from RiRi’s Instagram page), and she’s completely forgiven Chris Brown.
But the most quote from her remarkably candid profile involved Rihanna’s thoughts on Rachel Dolezal.
You may remember Dolezal as the NAACP leader who pretended to be black and got busted on live TV back in June.
“I think she was a bit of a hero, because she kind of flipped on society a little bit,” Rih sayd when asked about Dolezal.
“Is it such a horrible thing that she pretended to be black? Black is a great thing, and I think she legit changed people’s perspective a bit and woke people up.”
Maybe she’s right, and Dolezal helped to spark a national conversation about race. Of course, she’s been all but completely forgotten about just a few months after her ordeal, so whatever impact she had seems to have been short-lived.
In any event, Dolezal misled hundreds, if not thousands of people and took opportunities away from much more deserving individuals, so the word “hero” might be a bit strong.
Anyway, RiRi wouldn’t be RiRi if she wasn’t stirring up controversy. We can’t wait to hear her thoughts on Donald Trump.
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