This Series of Five Rachel Dolezal 2014 Raw Interview Videos Will Absolutely Baffle You
You'll have to follow the link to actually watch the videos but it's weird hearing her talk about Eminem appropriating black culture, and her having to be a spokesperson for all black people, when you know she's white and appropriated black culture and can't be a spokesperson for black people since she isn't black.
http://www.colorlines.com/articles/series-five-rachel-dolezal-2014-raw-interview-videos-will-absolutely-baffle-you
In early 2014, Eastern Washington University student Lauren Campbell interviewed Rachel Dolezal—the white woman who’s pretended to be black and serves as the president of the Spokane, Washington, chapter of the NAACP—for her senior thesis. Campbell uploaded the videos to YouTube on Friday, but they haven’t yet garnered too much attention. We’ve watched the videos, which add up to almost an hour's worth of Dolezal casually talking about life as a black woman, so that you don’t have to. But, if you’re interested, a brief description will give you an idea of what Dolezal talks about in each part, from her struggle with crayons for her skin tone as a child, to Eminem’s appropriation of blackness, to the burden she feels for having light skin. At one point, Dolezal even pronouces the n-word as part of a story. So yeah… you’ve been warned.
In the first video, Dolezal is quick mention that she went to Howard (a possible badge of honor that she uses when talking to other black women). In response to the first formal question, Dolezal asks Campbell how black women answered the question she’s being asked. Later on, she also points out the frustration with having to be a voice for an entire race of people:
In response to a question posed by Campbell, the third video features Dolezal talking about experiences when she was made to feel her blackness. Dolezal cautions against white people thinking they’re not racist because they have black friends, a black partner, or black children—and getting a free pass as a result (it should be noted that Dolezal, who was once married to a white man, repeatedly talks about her black friends and black son in these videos). She also bemoans the fact that white people “are allowed to do everything,” citing Eminem as an appropriator or blackness:
In the fifth and final video, Dozal completes her thoughts on light skin privilege, concluding that it’s also burdensome to her (she complains, for example, that white people touch her hair). With a chuckle, Dolezal also tells a story about a geography lesson in which students in her son’s class pronounced Nigeria, in part, as the n-word. Except she doesn’t say “the n-word”—she actually pronounces the slur. She also says her son was threatened with assassination in his future, which she then uses as an opportunity to market her licensed diversity training services. She also explains why white women’s feminism comes up short and how, as a black woman, she feels isolated in her attempts to abolish white supremacy:
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Note my response below. That doesn't make sense - it just doesn't. You mean she's still not white?
