Instead of simply admitting that she is white but prefers to be black and thus constructed a web of deception about her identity, including benefiting from the perception that she is a minority, Rachel Dolezal dug in her heels in an interview with Savannah Guthrie set to air on NBC Nightly News.
“It’s one thing to embrace the questions as an academic matter,” Guthrie told Dolezal gently. “It’s another thing to just actually be honest and transparent about who you are. And I think that’s where people are having trouble with you, Rachel. I think they feel that you have been, for whatever reason, and perhaps wonderful reasons, acting like you’re something that you are not.”
“Right. Well, I definitely am not white,” said the woman who once sued Howard University over anti-white discrimination. “Nothing about being white describes who I am. So, you know, what’s the word for it? You know what I mean?” I believe the word she's reaching for is "denial."
“The closest thing that I can come to is if — if you’re black or white, I’m black,” she inisted. “I’m more black than I am white. So on a level of values, lived experience, currently, I mean, in this moment, that’s — that’s the answer. That’s the accurate answer from my truth.”
Unfortunately, in this video clip the reporter didn't ask Dolezal to explain what "being white" means or what "black values" are, nor did she point out to Dolezal that truth does not exist only "in this moment" and that there is no such thing as "my truth," only the truth.
Watch the entire video. It's an incredible testament to the progressive notion that everything is simply a subjective "construct," from race to the truth.
H/t Mediaite.
