*Former NAACP branch president Rachel Dolezal, who identifies as black, even though she was born to two white parents, is now jobless, living on food stamps and expects to lose her home next month.
“There’s no protected class for me,” the former NAACP branch president told The Guardian. “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 has applied for over 100 jobs, but has received no offers, even from a supermarket, msn.com reports. She has, however, been offered work in porn and reality TV. While a friend helped pay her rent for February, Dolezal expects she’ll lose her home next month.
“I do think a more complex label would be helpful, but we don’t really have that vocabulary,” said the former Africana studies instructor. “I feel like the idea of being trans-black would be much more accurate than ‘I’m white.’ Because you know, I’m not white.”
“It wasn’t like the honest thing to do is say, ‘I’m white’, because race is a social construct,” stated Dolezal to The Guardian. “And this gave me this great sense of internal freedom: I wasn’t actually all fucked up. I was actually on to something this whole time.”
“I’m not going to stoop and apologize and grovel and feel bad about it. I would just be going back to when I was little, and had to be what everybody else told me I should be – to make them happy.”
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Last year, Dolezal gave birth to her third child, a son she named Langston Attickus Dolezal. At that time, she did not reveal the identity or ethnicity of the baby’s father… but many are now wondering where the baby daddy is and why he’s not helping the mother of his child.
Dolezal made headlines as the NAACP chapter leader who was exposed as a race faker for using traditionally black hairstyles, checking the “black” box on employment and medical documents, claiming her ethnicity as “mixed,” and, when asked whether her mom or dad was black, said her mom was white. Both were later to be revealed as white Christian fundamentalists, who supposedly beat her.
Dolezal detailed her childhood in Montana as one containing a suppression of her creativity. She says that as a child she drew herself as having curly hair and dark skin and would pretend to have been kidnapped from Africa. When her parents adopted black children, she braided their hair, educated them on black history, and “began to see the world through black eyes.”
“On the white side I noticed hatred, fear and ignorance,” Rachel recounted to The Guardian. “And on the black side I noticed fear, anger and pain. I felt more at home with the anger and pain towards whites, because I had some anger and pain – toward not just my parents but also, even though I wouldn’t have been able to articulate it then, towards white supremacy.”
She once quoted activist Dick Gregory to talkshow host Loni Love – “White isn’t a race, it’s a state of mind” – the host exploded: “No, let me tell you something. I’m black. I can’t be you, I can’t reverse myself. That’s the difference.”
As The Guardian reports, today Dolezal is jobless, and feeding her family with food stamps. She has changed her name on all her legal documents, but is still recognized wherever she goes. People point at her and laugh.
h/t: daily caller
