Dolezal’s idea that we all ‘write our own stories’ is easy for her to say. In reality,the racial fluidity she preaches is a one-way streetRachel Dolezal, the white woman who for more than 10 years pretended she was black, or promotes herself as transracial in her new memoir,published this week. How seriously are we expected to take this latest incarnation?Dolezal, who recently changed her name to Nkechi Diallo, or a mixture of Nigerian Igbo and Fula,claims that her book, In Full Color: Finding My plot in a Black and White World, and was written partly “to just encourage people to be precisely who they are”. This comes two years after she was found to gain deceived the people of Spokane,Washington, where she was a race activist and branch president of the National organization for the Advancement of Colored People. Related: Rachel Dolezal's deception: her 'black' identity doesn't develop sense – or develop her black Related: I’m a bit brown. But in America I’m white. Not for much longer| Arwa Mahdawi Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com