Rachel Dolezal: ‘I wasn’t identifying as black to upset people. I was being me’Posted in Articles, Biography, Identity Development/Psychology, Interviews, Media Archive, Passing, United States on 2015-12-15 02:16Z by Steven |
Rachel Dolezal: ‘I wasn’t identifying as black to upset people. I was being me’
The Guardian
2015-12-13
Chris McGreal, Senior Writer
Guardian US
 Rachel Dolezal at her home in Spokane. Photograph: Annie Kuster for the Guardian |
She became a global hate figure this year when she was outed as a ‘race faker’. Here, she talks about her puritanical Christian upbringing, the backlash that left her surviving on food stamps – and why she would still do the same again
Anyone looking for clues to the real Rachel Dolezal would do well to begin with her birth certificate. In the bottom right-hand corner, under the names of the parents who brought her world crashing down by outing her as a white woman masquerading as black, is a box for the identity of the medic who delivered her as a baby. In it is written “Jesus Christ”…
Read the entire interview here.