Rachel Dolezal: ‘I wasn't identifying as black to upset people. I was being me'

The Guardian ^ | 12/13/2015 | Chris McGreal

[Beave Meister]

Anyone looking for clues to the real Rachel Dolezal would do well to begin with her birth certificate. In the bottom right-hand corner, under the names of the parents who brought her world crashing down by outing her as a white woman masquerading as black, is a box for the identity of the medic who delivered her as a baby. In it is written “Jesus Christ”.

Whether or not the son of God had a direct hand in her birth at home in rural Montana in 1977, he was ever present as Dolezal was raised by her fundamentalist Christian parents, Lawrence and Ruthanne. Life was dictated by the couple’s strict interpretation of the Bible, including a strong belief in creationism and a puritan-like commitment to simple living and harsh punishment.

Dolezal spent years imagining it was all a horrible mistake.

[Chode]

transmogrified...

[Texas Eagle]

"I feel ya, Rachel."

[ModelBreaker]

“Anyone can say they are black or a midget or trans or a chicken or ...”

Or a Warthog . . .

http://www.duffelblog.com/2015/03/op-ed-i-sexually-identify-as-an-a-10-thunderbolt/

[Chode]

it already has a kid, does it receive child support? it's pregnant, AGAIN, will it get child support for that one??

or is this what it means by being black???

[livius]

It’s all about moi.

[Snickering Hound]

[Ranger Warrior]

Her concept of “being me” qualifies her for the rubber room.

[IMR 4350]

Actually I think most of it was “blacks are too stupid to know what’s best for themselves only a white liberal like me can know what’s best for blacks”.

[Stepan12]

They're both sickos.

[Stepan12]

I don't know.... Maybe she heard so much of this hate whitey stuff that she developed self hatred and tried to extinguish her white identity. If so, she was acting like a...good Liberal.

[Lurker]

Bingo.

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