According to Entertainment Weekly, Rachel Dolezal, Ms. I’m-Black-In-My-Head-So-I-Can-Emulate-Black-Culture-With-Positive-Benefits, just signed a book deal on Black life and culture.
Resources For Black Women Are Slim
As a Black woman, I feel some kind of way about Dolezal. She is doing her best to continue to paint herself as Black where she benefits financially from the slim and sometimes non-existent monetary resources available for Black women. Dolezal is brazen as she claims Black spaces while Black women continue to face structural racism and the effects of white supremacy.
Dolezal Explains Her Crazy Race Theories
Dolezal’s book will explain what it’s like to be a white woman who identifies as Black.
She spoke with Savanah Guthrie where she said,
“I’ve heard a lot of stories from people around the world about their lives being somehow caught between boundary lines of race or culture or ethnicity. [It’s about] this larger issue of if you don’t fit into one box and if you don’t stay there your whole life, being identified from birth as who you are — what does that look like?…Race didn’t create racism, but racism created race.”
Dolezal Is A Hair Model For Black Hair Styles
I’m not sure which Black people she spoke with to ascertain her tidbits of what it’s like to be Black. Actually, I call foul on her entire world of mind play. When Dolezal was outed as white in her NAACP presidency last year she made no apologies for misleading people. She retained her African Studies teaching position and supplemented her income by becoming a hair model for black hair styles.
Dolezal Is A Thief
Dolezal’s appropriation of black culture continues to be a slap in the face to black women. There are thousands of Black women, including myself, who hold the needed credentials to teach at the university level. Tenure track positions are hard to come by overall, but to have them snatched by women claiming to be Black is a travesty.
Book deals aren’t easy to come by either. For Dolezal to cash in on pretending to be Black without having to carry the burden shows how much she disrespects Black culture. Bye, Rachel.
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