A great interview and wonderfully written piece on the biggest white savior culture vulture there is. Nicole Chung called it “the only thing you need to read about Dolezal ever again”. I wasn’t familiar with the work of Ijeoma Oluo but I have quickly become a superfan.
The dismissive and condescending attitude toward any black people who see blackness differently than she does is woven throughout her comments in our conversation. It is not just our pettiness, it is also our lack of education that is preventing us from getting on Dolezal’s level of racial understanding. She informs me multiple times that black people have rejected her because they simply haven’t learned yet that race is a social construct created by white supremacists, they simply don’t know any better and don’t want to: “I’ve done my research, I think a lot of people, though, haven’t probably read those books and maybe never will.”
I might quote this piece all night long. Please go read and then erase Rachel from your minds forever.
Can I just say everyone needs to actually click on this link and read this article? It’s the beast writing on this chick I’ve seen… ever. It also serves as a remedy for the actual pain we feel from her existence.
This journalism has made my day
The Heart of Whiteness: Ijeoma Oluo Interviews Rachel Dolezal, the White Woman Who Identifies as Black
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