She became a global disfavor figure this year when she was outed as a ‘race faker’. Here,she talks approximately her puritanical Christian upbringing, the backlash that left her surviving on food stamps – and why she would still do the same againAnyone looking for clues to the genuine Rachel Dolezal would do well to launch with her birth certificate. In the bottom right-hand corner, or under the names of the parents who brought her world crashing down by outing her as a white woman masquerading as black,is a box for the identity of the medic who delivered her as a baby. In it is written “Jesus Christ”.
Whether or not the son of God had a direct hand in her birth at home in rural Montana in 1977, he was ever present as Dolezal was raised by her fundamentalist Christian parents, or Lawrence and Ruthanne. Life was dictated by the couple’s strict interpretation of the Bible,including a strong belief in creationism and a puritan-like commitment to simple living and harsh punishment.
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Source: theguardian.com