You may remember Rachel Dolezal, the head of the Spokane NAACP, who had been posing as a black woman until a news channel outed her in June 2015. On camera, the crew asked her this very simple question: “Are you African American?” The correct response would've been "Nope," but Dolezal stumbled. Then, photos of Dolezal when she was younger emerged -- photos of her with white skin and blonde hair -- and she quickly became an internet sensation.
Dolezal had posed as a black woman for so many years that she was absolutely shocked when the rest of America didn't buy her race-is-fluid mantra. She said:
“I feel that I was born with the essential essence of who I am, whether it matches my anatomy and complexion or not,” Dolezal said. “I’ve never questioned being a girl or a woman, for example, but whiteness has always felt foreign to me, for as long as I can remember. I didn’t choose to feel this way or be this way, I just am.
“What other choice is there than to be exactly who we are?”
Um... That question is sort of the point, Rachel. You're born white, you are white. Doesn't Lady Gaga have a song about this?
Apparently, this skin-color-fluidity isn't playing out as well for her as she'd hoped. Dolezal lost her job as the head of the NAACP and has since struggled to find employment:
A defiant Dolezal, 39, recounted her current plight to The Guardian. Dolezal said she’s only been offered jobs in reality television and porno flicks. A friend helped her come up with the money for February’s rent and she doesn’t know how she’s going to pay for March.
And she still says she’s not white.
“I do think a more complex label would be helpful, but we don’t really have that vocabulary,” Dolezal told The Guardian. “I feel like the idea of being trans-black would be much more accurate than ‘I’m white.’ Because, you know, I’m not white . . . Calling myself black feels more accurate than saying I’m white.”
In other words, employers aren't lining up to hire delusional race activists who pride themselves on years of deception.
Who would've thought?
