{"id":44604,"date":"2015-12-15T02:16:53","date_gmt":"2015-12-15T02:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=44604"},"modified":"2017-02-19T22:47:34","modified_gmt":"2017-02-19T22:47:34","slug":"rachel-dolezal-i-wasnt-identifying-as-black-to-upset-people-i-was-being-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=44604","title":{"rendered":"Rachel Dolezal: \u2018I wasn’t identifying as black to upset people. I was being me’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rachel Dolezal: \u2018I wasn’t identifying as black to upset people. I was being me’<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The Guardian<\/a>
\n2015-12-13<\/p>\n

Chris McGreal<\/a><\/strong>, Senior Writer
\nGuardian US<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nRachel Dolezal<\/a> at her home in Spokane<\/a>. Photograph: Annie Kuster <\/a>for the Guardian<\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

She became a global hate figure this year when she was outed as a \u2018race faker\u2019. Here, she talks about her puritanical Christian upbringing, the backlash that left her surviving on food stamps<\/a> \u2013 and why she would still do the same again<\/em><\/p>\n

Anyone looking for clues to the real Rachel Dolezal<\/a> 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<\/a>, is a box for the identity of the medic who delivered her as a baby. In it is written \u201cJesus Christ\u201d…<\/p>\n

Read the entire interview here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rachel Dolezal: \u2018I 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 \u2018race faker\u2019. Here, she talks […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1245,125,13743,8,6462,20],"tags":[22267,20257,22268,20241,2103],"class_list":["post-44604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-biography","category-identitydevelopment","category-interviews","category-media-archive","category-passing-2","category-usa","tag-chris-mcgreal","tag-rachel-a-dolezal","tag-rachel-anne-dolezal","tag-rachel-dolezal","tag-the-guardian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44604"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51694,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44604\/revisions\/51694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}