{"id":46597,"date":"2016-04-13T00:12:27","date_gmt":"2016-04-13T00:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=46597"},"modified":"2016-04-13T00:12:27","modified_gmt":"2016-04-13T00:12:27","slug":"rachel-dolezal-1-year-later-i-dont-have-any-regrets-about-how-i-identify","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=46597","title":{"rendered":"Rachel Dolezal 1 year later: &#8216;I don&#8217;t have any regrets about how I identify&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.today.com\/news\/rachel-dolezal-1-year-later-i-don-t-have-any-t85871\" target=\"_blank\">Rachel Dolezal 1 year later: &#8216;I don&#8217;t have any regrets about how I identify&#8217;<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.today.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Today Show<\/a><br \/>\n2016-04-12<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EunKim\" target=\"_blank\">Eun Kyung Kim<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rachel_Dolezal\" target=\"_blank\">Rachel Dolezal<\/a> said she remains puzzled about why people have questioned her racial identity but is &#8220;ready to move on&#8221; from the controversy that made her a household name last spring.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t have any regrets about how I identify. I&#8217;m still me and nothing about that has changed,&#8221; the former <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/National_Association_for_the_Advancement_of_Colored_People\" target=\"_blank\">NAACP<\/a> chapter president told <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Today_(U.S._TV_program)\" target=\"_blank\">TODAY&#8217;s<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Savannah_Guthrie\" target=\"_blank\">Savannah Guthrie<\/a> on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Dolezal, who was born to white parents, created a national debate about racial identity after she <a href=\"http:\/\/www.today.com\/news\/rachel-dolezal-speaks-today-show-matt-lauer-after-naacp-resignation-t26371\" target=\"_blank\">told the world in a TODAY interview<\/a> last June, &#8220;I identify as black.&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the story and watch the interview <a href=\"http:\/\/www.today.com\/news\/rachel-dolezal-1-year-later-i-don-t-have-any-t85871\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rachel Dolezal 1 year later: &#8216;I don&#8217;t have any regrets about how I identify&#8217; The Today Show 2016-04-12 Eun Kyung Kim Rachel Dolezal said she remains puzzled about why people have questioned her racial identity but is &#8220;ready to move on&#8221; from the controversy that made her a household name last spring. &#8220;I don&#8217;t have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8,6462,20,842],"tags":[20257,20241,23546,23545,20858,16862,20676],"class_list":["post-46597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-media-archive","category-passing-2","category-usa","category-videos","tag-rachel-a-dolezal","tag-rachel-dolezal","tag-savannah-clark-guthrie","tag-savannah-guthrie","tag-the-today-show","tag-today","tag-today-show"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46597","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=46597"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46598,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46597\/revisions\/46598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}