Rachel Dolezal Reveals She Still Can't Get A Job Six Years After Transracial Controversy

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The self-described transracial activist hasn’t been able to get a job in six years following the highly-publicized controversy.

After coming out as bisexual, Rachel Dolezal is back to reveal more about her life since being outed as a white woman posing to be black, in 2015. The former president of the NAACP chapter in Spokane, Washington joined the Tamron Hall Show to discuss her name becoming a  “problematic identity” and the struggles of unemployment following the controversy.

Dolezal begins the interview by describing what's it like to essentially see her name in headlines whenever a person seems to be appropriating black culture. “What I really wish is that people could see me more for who I am than the what,” Dolezal told Tamron in the interview, which you can watch below. Dolezal goes on to claim her story is not one of “pretending, faking, or changing,” but instead she describes it as “finding a home culturally.” 

“I’ve always identified racially as human, but have found more of a home in black culture, in the black community,” Dolezal added.

 

“After not having a job for six years, I’ve had to create my own job and find ways to provide for my children,” Dolezal revealed to Tamron. Since losing her job as a professor of Africana Studies at Eastern Washington, Dolezal has not been able to find employment. “I started with applying for all the things I was qualified for and after interviews and getting turned down I even applied to jobs that didn’t even require degrees. Being a maid at a hotel, working at a casino. I wasn’t able to get any of those jobs either.” Instead, she’s said that she tries to maintain a living by braiding hair, writing grants for marginalized communities, painting, and pep talks.  

“When there’s so much negativity on just a Google Search or Wikipedia is even inaccurate about your life story, and you have to direct people to the only place my true story lives is in my book In Full Color. People aren’t going to go seek out my book if they’re just looking for an employee,” Rachel said. 

Rachel has revamped her resume and is looking to apply to teaching jobs next fall. Do you think Dolezal can bounce back and get a job? 


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Cp3nohornetsCp3nohornets
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Still can’t believe ppl thought she was black.
3 0ReplyFebruary 10, 2021
She don't deserve that shit. It's plenty of "vultures" (as they say), that take from the culture & don't mean us any well. This lady actually grinding for the culture, was a fucking professor of black studies & the president of her NAACP chapter. Our community gives too much flack & attention to the wrong shit. We got way bigger enemies and tribulations to be fighting allies. This bįtch wanna be black for the right reasons. She a real one.
14 2ReplyFebruary 10, 2021
But the other retards get standing ovations and retªrded companies trying to cater to their illiterate delusion? Lol.
2 1ReplyFebruary 11, 2021
EC3EC3
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She fine as hell doe
1 2ReplyFebruary 11, 2021
The Wise OGThe Wise OG
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"When there’s so much negativity on just a Google Search or Wikipedia is even inaccurate about your life story..." YOU made your life story inaccurate. If she stayed just a regular white woman, she'd never have a problem getting work in America. Only she could have ruined that
0 0ReplyFebruary 11, 2021
MASONMASON
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don’t care didn’t ask plus you’re white
0 0ReplyFebruary 11, 2021
CheddaCheezCheddaCheez
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I bet she didnt apply to a Walmart or Mcdonalds.. She might not be able to have a career but she could probably get a job if she really tried
0 0ReplyFebruary 11, 2021