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.
She can bake white gay wedding cakes that identify as black.
Dear Rachel,
Get rid of the fake tan and afro, and dye your hair blonde. Duh.
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.
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Or McDonald’s.
Book? No! I want her to be a bag lady.
That’s pretty funny.
LOL!
She might as well have put on blackface and started tapdancing!
That is how insulting what she did is.
No kidding. My recently passed father had an amazing caregiver who was African-American. They grew up in the same part of Chicago.
She is lovely and sweet and hard-working and I can’t sing her praises enough.
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She helped my father go over to the other side.
On a side point, her mother and father still live in the neighborhood. And they are so afraid to go outside.
They’re honest hard-working people but they can’t even sell their house, where they raised their children, and they don’t even want to. Those are the people that Donald Trump wants to help.
It was so great one of the last times I saw my dad alive, I was at his nursing home, and he and his caretaker, the young African-American woman, were chatting about the same pizza places that they have been to in Chicago LOL!!!!
I hope Trump’s people monitor FR because these are real stories.
LOL!
But what can you expect with a screen name like that. LOL!
Thinking of Friends, when Ross and Rachel made Emma laugh with”Baby Got Back”
Too funny!!!
Take care, FRiends. :)
lol
“The only work she has been offered is reality TV, and porn.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/25/rachel-dolezal-not-going-stoop-apologise-grovel
For the former I'd substitute Maya Rudolph.
I mean the later of course.
;)
Take care!
Julie
Same to you :)
The Washington Post or New York Times would take her. She could make up news for them.
If she leaned to tap dance and wore black face make up she’d make a fortune.
Canines on a label for deodorant seems like a really poor marketing choice. Does it smell like two wet wolves?
If checking the non-white block on the FAFSA application gets you more free dough, a LOT of parents are probably doing it.
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