Here’s guessing the world doesn’t take too kindly to trans-Black people. Rachel Dolezal, the White woman who made headlines for faking her race, is now jobless and on food stamps. When news emerged that the head of the Spokane NAACP Chapter in Washington state was not Black, she lost her job, as well as her position as an adjunct instructor at Eastern Washington University. She was actually exposed by her Caucasian parents, Larry and Ruthanne Dolezal, in June 2015. They shared exclusive baby photos of Rachel with the Daily News and details of her birth that she was born in her parents’ rural Montana bedroom on Nov. 12, 1977.
Her memoir titled In Full Color: Finding My Place In A Black And White World, which was reportedly rejected by as many as 30 publishers, is actually due out next month. The mother of three says she has applied for 100 jobs and hasn’t been hired by anyone, but she has received offers to do reality TV and porn. She is receiving food stamps.
Rachel once stated that her story is complementary to Caitlyn Jenner, who was born Bruce Jenner, and opted to live his life as a woman. She says race is “not coded in your DNA” and should be viewed like gender or religion, which is why she tried to coin the new identity trans Black. She says she wrote the book to set the record straight and to “open up this dialogue about race and identity, and to just encourage people to be exactly who they are.”
It will also highlight her journey “from being a child of white Evangelical parents to an NAACP chapter president and respected educator and activist who identified as Black.”
The hardcover will retail for $15 and the 256 pages will also explore “the discrimination” Dolezal claims to have suffered “while living as a Black woman.”
“Her story is nuanced and complex, and in the process of telling it, she forces us to consider race in an entirely new light,” the synopsis concludes.
“Not as a biological imperative, but as a function of the experience we have, the culture we embrace, and, ultimately, the identity we choose.”
She reports that she will never go back to being White.
