Rachel “don’t stop” Dolezal

So everyone remembers Rachel Dolezal right? America’s favorite liar.
In case you don’t, let’s stroll down memory lane shall we? Dolezal is a Caucasian female, former NAACP president, who conned everyone into believing she was an African American woman until she was exposed by her white parents.
Well Ms. Dolezal had announced to the world via Instagram that she is coming out with a tell all memoir called, “In Full Color: Finding My Place in a Black and White World”.
I couldn’t make this up if I tried. The book won’t be released until March 2017, however, you can get a good laugh by reading the preview of the book on Amazon.
The preview of the book reads:
“With In Full Color, Rachael Doležal describes the path that led her from being a child of white evangelical parents to an NAACP chapter president and respected educator and activist who identified as black. Along the way, she’ll discuss the deep emotional bond she formed with her four adopted black siblings, the sense of belonging she felt while living in black communities in Jackson, Mississippi and Washington, D.C., and the discrimination she’s suffered while living as a black woman. Her story is nuanced and complex, and in the process of telling it, she forces us to consider race in an entirely new light—not as a biological imperative, but as a function of the experiences we have, the culture we embrace, and, ultimately, the identity we choose.”
Yup. For $14.95, you can read all about how a white woman faced oppression while pretending to be black.
This woman never ceases to amaze me. The funny part of this book is she believes that race should not be based on what you were born with but should be based on what you feel in your soul. Because apparently, you can put on an afro wig and tan in the sun and automatically your’re black because that is how you feel inside.
There are many things you can change about yourself from your hair to eye color even to gender but your race isn’t one of them.
During an interview with Vanity Fair, Dolezal stated “I wouldn’t say I’m African-American, but I would say I’m black, and there’s a difference in those terms,” and she also explains she felt “confused” for the longest as to how she should live her life but now she’s no longer confused and that the world may be.
No, you’re confused.
Dolezal’s idea of being discriminated against was when she sued Howard University because they denied her a scholarship aid, and teaching position. She also complained that her artwork was removed from a student exhibition at Howard because they favored the black students. So basically she wasn’t getting the white privilege she so rightfully deserved at an HBCU and had the audacity to cry discrimination in a law suit.
Dolezal needs wake up and realize identity is not something we choose, it’s something we were born with and something we learn to embrace.
Another thing she needs to realize is that no matter how engrossed in black culture she is, she will never truly know what it is like to be a black woman in America.