Last
month, Rachel Dolezal was outed–by her parents, no less–as a Caucasian woman,
after approximately a decade of pretending to be Black. She almost immediately
resigned from her position as the President of the Spokane Chapter of the
NAACP.
Since
the days immediately following the initial reports, Ms. Dolezal has kept pretty
quiet, her name only popping up in follow-up news reports or Sunday afternoon
CNN debates pointing out the fact that she could’ve accomplished just as much
as a NAACP prez had she remained true to her actual ethnicity.
That
silence has ended, thanks to a new interview with Vanity Fair. (In case you’re
wondering, the woman that interviewed Dolezal was Black). There are some pretty
interesting soundbites, most notably, the not-so-surprising fact that Dolezal
is continuing to identify not as an African-American woman, but a Black one.
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I
just feel like I didn’t mislead anybody; I didn’t deceive anybody. If people
feel misled or deceived, then sorry that they feel that way, but I believe
that’s more due to their definition and construct of race in their own minds
than it is to my integrity or honesty, because I wouldn’t say I’m African
American, but I would say I’m black, and there’s a difference in those terms.
Okay…
A
little deeper into the interview however, there’s an even more interesting bit,
concerning where Dolezal is finding her main source of income since, according
to her, the last check she received was in June for less than $2000.
As
she figures out where she’ll land next, Dolezal says she is surviving on one of
the skills she perfected as she attempted to build a black identity. At Eastern
Washington University, she lectured on the politics and history of black hair,
and she says she developed a passion for taking care of and styling black hair
while in college in Mississippi. That passion is now what brings in income in
the home she shares with Franklin. She says she has appointments for braids and
weaves about three times a week.
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