The New York Times gave people the opportunity to ask Rachel Dolezal the questions that have been weighing on them ever since she popped up in the news a couple years back for "faking" her blackness.
"Rachel Dolezal is with us to answer your questions and talk about her new memoir," The New York Times' Facebook post says. "Dolezal was a N.A.A.C.P. chapter president and a university instructor in African-American studies before she attracted national attention in 2015 for her embrace of a racial identity she was not born or raised in. Leave your questions in the comments, and NYT journalist Adeel Hassan will ask some."
People asked questions about the blatant abuse of her white privilege and the harm that she's inflicted upon the black community.
“I think there has been a lot of discussion about somewhat of a double standard when it comes to the way the media discusses gender and race and sexual orientation and religion and various aspects of our identities,” she said. “We all have a very complex, plural identity with these different categories of ourselves, and I think that we really need to question, ‘Does allowing fluidity in the race and culture spectrum do more to protect human rights than kind of keeping the very rigid boundary lines?’” Dolezal explained.
Pretty crazy interview.
Check it out below:
via Facebook