*Transracial activist Rachel Dolezal, the white woman who identifies as Black, believes she can help inspire change and better treatment for people of color in America.
“Racially I identify as human, but culturally I identify as black,” Dolezal said in a phone interview with New York Post.
“I do hope that we can rework the vocabulary. That’s part of challenging the race world view,” said Dolezal, who lives in Spokane, Washington, where she makes a living braiding Black women’s hair.
The single mother legally changed her name to Nkechi Amare Diallo in 2017 but still goes by Rachel socially, according to the report.
She tells the publication that she feels energized and called to action in the wake of George Floyd’s death. But the Black Lives Matter movement in her area has reportedly declined her offer to get involved.
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“Overwhelmingly, most people I hear from are black or mixed or non-white in some way and a lot of people have said this is your moment, you’re vindicated,” Dolezal said. “I have received hundreds of messages. Most of it’s been overwhelmingly positive.”
In 2018, Netflix dropped a documentary about Dolezal title, “The Rachel Divide,” offering further insight into the former president of the NAACP chapter in Spokane
“The Netflix documentary did help some of the people understand some of the context and backstory. I have received a lot of apologies from people who jumped on the bandwagon on social media,” she said.
Dolezal’s transracial controversy caused her to lose her job at the NAACP. She struggled financially, relying on friends for financial support, according to the report.
She was able to make ends meet from sales from her 2018 memoir, “In Full Color,” but was later accused of welfare fraud for not reporting over $80,000 in earnings.
These days, Dolezal is all about social justice, defunding the police and promoting her her art work.
She’s hoping to soon move to Tucson to be closer to her son Franklin, 17, a student at the University of Arizona.
Dolezal is also mother to a four-year-old with autism and the legal guardian of 26 -year-old adoptive brother, Izaiah.
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