She's a little late to the party on this one.
Posted on 04/12/2016 10:27:42 AM PDT by fungoking
Rachel Dolezal says she is writing a book about racial identity.
Dolezal is the former NAACP chapter president who made headlines nearly a year ago when it was revealed she was white after she'd identified herself as a black woman. On Tuesday, she appeared on NBC's Today to talk about the past year and the book, which also will touch on her experiences and the topics she taught to college students as a black-studies professor.
"Race is such a contentious issue because of the painful history of racism," she said. "Race didn't create racism, but racism created race. It's important to think through a lot of those topics and questions that people have and that's why this became so visible because it really challenged people to think about identity: What is race? Is there one human race? Why do we still want to go back to that world and be separate races?"
Dolezal's deception was exposed last year when her parents came forward to say she is white in an interview with a local newspaper. At the time, she told Today in an interview, "I identify as black."
Read More: Rachel Dolezal Admits She's White on 'The Real'
Asked Tuesday if she had any regrets, Dolezal replied: "I don't have any regrets about how I identify; I'm still me, and nothing about that has changed.... I do wish that I could have owned, given myself permission to name and own, the me of me earlier in life. It took me almost 30 years to get there. It's a complex issue. How do you sum up a whole life of coming into who you are in a sound bite?... moving forward, I don't have any regrets about that."
Still, she admitted that the past year has been "challenging."
"It's been some work to rebuild and get things back on track with our life," said Dolezal, who has three children, including a newborn son, and is hoping to get "back into racial and social justice work." She added: "We're doing well. Looking at some new opportunities going into 2016."
She's a little late to the party on this one.
Two months after publication, people will walk past a stack of them in the bin outside of Half Price Books.
You can see she was always dark-sinned. It just took time for the melanin to spread from the freckle-like spots with her natural color when she was young to the older Rachel Dolezal who was more recognizable as black.
Well, if you can be whatever gender you want, I guess you can be whatever race you want.
You would have thought being female would have been enough for her. :-)
I self identify as a sea urchin.
With a forward by J-Roc
I think they mean to say that she pretended to be a black woman.
I identify as a Labrador Retriever today.
No, race is going to be the same as gender soon. You can self identify.
“Once I was a crackka. The end.”
In her defense, she went from homely white female to a light-skinded black female who would be considered attractive within the realm of black females.
Thus, she raised her status by joining a lower-status group.
And yes, I said “light-skinded”. It’s the term black females used in my area in the 80s - 90s.
Prickly.
One terribly confused woman.
well.... she wont have to buy TP for the rest of her life cause no one is going to buy that book....
Hey, Jilly-come-lately, John Howard Griffin already did that 55 years ago, in 1961. You might have saved yourself some stress if you had bothered to read his book.
You can join Hillary Clinton. She has been barking like a dog for quite sometime.
On my second tour after King was shot things changed. Black guys who were your asshole buddies in the field but on base you were the oppressor, destroyed the army.
In cursive?
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