She's baaaack and trying to capitalize on the last moments of her fame before it fizzles out as fast as it burst onto the national stage. Rachel Dolezal is hoping to sell a new book all about the woman who is white but pretends to be black because, well, that's how she identifies and the rules of biology no longer apply.
Dolezal appeared on Tuesday's Today Show to talk about her life as a national controversy one year later. She said, "I don't have any regrets about how I identify," insisting that nothing has changed about her identity (she calls it, "my truth"). She has, however, noticed that it's harder to go to the grocery store without someone snapping a picture.
NBC host Savannah Guthrie asked the former Spokane NAACP chapter president to ponder if she maybe handled the whole situation poorly, choosing much nicer words than "you lied to everybody and yet regret nothing." Dolezal seemed a little dazed, even by Guthrie's gently put question:
I don’t know what you’re referring to with that but… You know, not necessarily. I mean, I do wish that I’d given myself permission to really own the me of me earlier in life. It took me almost 30 years to get there but I certainly feel like it’s a complex issue. How do you just sum up a whole life of this coming into who you are in a sound bite? Those conversations, I feel like moving forward I don’t have any regrets about that.”
Like Hillary Clinton, Dolezal doesn't "feel noways tired" in continuing to provide excuses for her charade. In fact, this story just continues down the hole. Though Dolezal still identifies as a black woman, she said that her book is going to focus on how she has evolved to believe in only "one human race."
"Why do we want to go back to that world where we have separate races?” asked the woman who still pretends to be black.
Watch below via NBC:
A couple of fun exit thoughts about this subject found randomly on Twitter:


