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Rachel Dolezal Believes She Has Done Nothing Wrong, Refuses To Apologize

Rachel Dolezal / Twitter
February 27, 2017

Rachel Dolezal is a former president of a NAACP branch who resigned after it was discovered that she was white, but was identifying herself as African American. Now Dolezal cannot find a job and is on foodstamps, and expects to be homeless by next month, the Guardian reports.

She has only been offered work in reality television and pornography.

Dolezal does not believe she did anything wrong, stating that she truly believes she is not white.

"I do think a more complex label would be helpful, but we don’t really have that vocabulary. I feel like the idea of being trans-black would be much more accurate than ‘I’m white’. Because you know, I’m not white," she told The Guardian.

In 2015 Dolezal's parents, who are both white, came forward and said their daughter was lying about her race. While the NAACP does not discriminate against having white employees, Dolezal came under fire for pretending to be African American.

Dolezal changed her appearance by tanning herself and braiding, deadlocking, or perming her hair, and never denied that she was African American.

After it became known that she is white, Dolezal resigned from her position at the NAACP and was fired from her job as an adjunct instructor in the African American Studies department at East Washington University, where she taught classes called "the black woman's struggle," and "African American culture."

She claims that the black community "evicted" her following the confrontation, but said she would not apologize for her actions.

"I’m not going to stoop and apologize and grovel and feel bad about it. I would just be going back to when I was little, and had to be what everybody else told me I should be – to make them happy," Dolezal said in her interview.

Dolezal added that race is more fluid than gender because it is not biological.

"It’s more so," she said. "Because it wasn’t even biological to begin with. It was always a social construct."