Posted on 02/26/2017 12:06:42 PM PST by Kaslin
There’s a name we haven’t seen in the news for a while, something which more than a few people would probably see as a good thing. Rachel Dolezal is doing some interviews again in preparation for the release of her upcoming book, In Full Color (get it?). During an interview with the Guardian, she sat down to discuss all the changes in her life since she was exposed as the black NAACP representative who wasn’t quite as black as she had let on. Things haven’t been going so well since that time as it turns out, but she still doesn’t seem to think that she did anything wrong.
Rachel not only lost her job with the NAACP but also a teaching position which she held. She claims to have applied for more than 100 jobs and is going by a different name, but people still recognize her and nobody wants to hire her. She’s on food stamps, recently required help paying her rent and says that she expects to be homeless in the near future. All of these depressing developments have apparently given her time for some reflection. (Daily Mail)
‘There’s no protected class for me. I’m this generic, ambiguous scapegoat for white people to call me a race traitor and take out their hostility on. And I’m a target for anger and pain about white people from the black community. It’s like I am the worst of all these worlds,’ Dolezal told the Guardian.
Dolezal told the newspaper that she is currently jobless and feeding her family with food stamps.
Her friend reportedly helped her pay two months worth of rent and she said she expects to be homeless.
First of all, I take no joy in reading about what’s going on in Ms. Dolezal’s life. I don’t think that she “had it coming” in terms of her employment prospects or the conditions her family finds themselves in. After all, it’s not as if she technically did anything illegal, is it? Whether or not she was on questionable moral ground is left to the eye of the beholder, but personally I think that would only apply if she were knowingly and intentionally deceiving everyone about her race for the specific purpose of landing a job and making money. Honestly, I’m just not convinced that’s the case. She may just be very disturbed or confused.
I also don’t suppose the fact that she has a book coming out is doing much to alleviate her fiscal woes at this juncture either. The interview reveals that she had to shop that book around to more than two dozen publishers before finally landing an offer from a smaller, independent house. Whatever advance she received probably wasn’t all that much and it sounds like it has since been depleted.
But what I find most remarkable about her attitude at present is that she really does seem to be blaming everyone else. For whatever reason, she clearly was taken completely by surprise when people expressed outrage at what she had done. Personally, while not finding it admirable in any way, I do think she managed (unintentionally) to open up some lines of discussion concerning current social justice questions which shed a new light on things. How is it that we have so many liberals who are willing to accept the idea of someone being a different gender than that which they obviously are based only on their feelings, but the same benefit of the doubt cannot be extended when it comes to questions of race? Rachel asked this question herself during the interview, comparing it to not only race but religion.
I don’t think I’ve got room on my bookshelf with all the other material waiting for attention to pick up Rachel’s book, but allow me to wish her the best in the sales department. For better or worse, she’s definitely become a notable figure in popular culture and I’m guessing we haven’t heard the last of her.
but personally I think that would only apply if she were knowingly and intentionally deceiving everyone about her race for the specific purpose of landing a job and making money.
Like a white woman getting a Harvard professorship by pretending to be a Native American.
What....is her "husband" unemployed?
Proves that Blacks get special privileges. Jobs, money, automatic moral superiority.
Proves that many Blacks hate Whites.
Proves that she hates herself.
Proves that guilt is passed down through White genes, but not through Black genes. If you are White, but don’t know it, you are still guilty.
Wish I could feel sorry for her, but I don’t. Working at the NAACP isn’t meaningful on a resume unless you’re Black - it gets you other race-industry jobs, but no real-world jobs.
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I dont believe this. She is a professor and an instructor, how can she at least not find an assistant manager job at a department store or restaurant.
Just read the Guardian interview which is not linked. A long, laudatory interview in which Miss Rachel lies about everything from her family to yesterday’s dinner menu. Claims to have worn dirty clothes as a child (but all the photos show a clean, pretty Sandra Dee type) and was cruelly beaten by her parents. Says she lived in her parents’ garden, hiding in mud, rubbing it on her face. And that’s how she got the idea of being black! (Sounds racist to me.)
This woman is a psychotic liar and only in modern day America is she taken seriously by a major newspaper.
Navin was very happy there.
This is all utter B.S. Every few months she is keynote speaker at some conference or event, she gets pensions... judging by her own Twitter feed she has no shortage of nice vacations to Antigua, London and elsewhere.
If Al Sharpton is paid enough cash, he’ll fall in love with trans-racism. Blacks used to hate gays comparing themselves to the “African-American experience” but as soon as Jesse and Al were paid off, they happily accepted gays as co-victims.
Lunatic! CooCoo!
Maybe she needs to reach out to Shaun White.
True enough, Rachel, but that's because you're white. You were fine with that arrangement when you weren't.
She is lying. Didn’t she get a advance from her new book?
Hehehehehehehehehehe
This woman has probably completely insulted the black community. She has definitely hurt her family. And now she’s apparently insulting the miniscule transgender community..
I feel for her personal level but she really has hurt her “cause.”
She is one disturbed individual.
As if she even knows meaning of the word individual.
If I were African American I would be so mad at her.
She should do the obvious thing and identify as an employed homeowner.
Problem solved.
I apologize for the bad grammar. I’m working on a tablet and some buttons don’t work so I’m doing voice to text. Please insert the appropriate words. LOL!
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