Holy cow, whatever happened to the good old days when we could call a con artist a con artist.
http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2015/07/rachel-dolezal-new-interview-pictures-exclusive
http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2015/07/rachel-dolezal-new-interview-pictures-exclusive
quote:Uhh, no...you're just...not black.
I wouldn't say I'm African American, but I would say I'm black
quote:Oh, I see now - if only you'd thought to simply tell everyone 'hey, I'm black' before we found out that you were flashing a picture of a black guy around and lying about him being your father, it would've all been cool.
Dolezal feels her outing was a big misunderstanding, but she appears unclear on exactly what was misunderstood. For months, she showcased Albert Wilkerson Jr., a black man she met in Idaho, as her father on Facebook, a move that could only be characterized as misleading. The problem, as Dolezal sees it, is one of timing. Had she been able to explain her complicated childhood and sincere, long-time love for black culture to everyone before the blow up, all would have been forgiven. "Again, I wish I could have had conversations with all kinds of people," she says. "If I would have known this was going to happen, I could have said, 'O.K., so this is the case. This is who I am, and I'm black and this is why.'"
quote:I don't know what's funnier - the fact that someone can be PAID to teach a college class about 'black hair', the fact that a former NAACP bigwig is now doing hair in her garage, or the fact that she named her child after the black kid on 'Peanuts'.
Dolezal says she is surviving on one of the skills she perfected as she attempted to build a black identity. At Eastern Washington University, she lectured on the politics and history of black hair, and she says she developed a passion for taking care of and styling black hair while in college in Mississippi. That passion is now what brings in income in the home she shares with Franklin. She says she has appointments for braids and weaves about three times a week.
quote:Ahh, I get it. Instead of having to explain your lies to each potential employer, it would be tons easier if everyone would just go ahead and shell out $24.99 for your book so that you don't have to keep repeating yourself. Makes sense.
"I would like to write a book just so that I can send [it to] everybody there as opposed to having to continue explaining," she says. "After that comes out, then I'll feel a little bit more free to reveal my life in the racial social-justice movement. I'm looking for the quickest way back to that, but I don't feel like I am probably going to be able to re-enter that work with the type of leadership required to make change if I don't have something like a published explanation."
