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Rachel Dolezal

Rachel Dolezal

American Activist

Born: Dec 12, 1977

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Related authors: Angela Davis Cesar Chavez Gloria Steinem Harriet Tubman Malcolm X Noam Chomsky Sojourner Truth Susan B. Anthony

I'm bisexual. And so, you know, I've dated men and women. Rachel Dolezal

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I stand on the black side of issues, philosophically, politically, socially, and for me to not check that box, I felt like, would be some sort of betrayal of not only who I am but also the community I affiliate with. Rachel Dolezal

I don't think you can do something wrong with your identity if you're living in your authenticity. Rachel Dolezal

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I'm more black than I am white. That's the accurate answer from my truth. Rachel Dolezal

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I don't believe in reverse racism. I really don't. Rachel Dolezal

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I would pretend to be a dark-skinned princess in the Sahara Desert or one of the Bantu women living in the Congo... imagining I was a different person living in a different place was one of the few ways... that I could escape the oppressive environment I was raised in. Rachel Dolezal

I definitely feel like, in America, even though race is a social construct... there's still a line drawn in the sand; there still are sides. Politically, there's a black side and a white side, and I stand unapologetically on the black side. Rachel Dolezal

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I wish Americans understood that race is a social construct, even if we don't want it to be. Rachel Dolezal

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In the Dolezal family, you couldn't always count on your parents to keep you safe. Rachel Dolezal

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From a very young age, I felt a spiritual, visceral, instinctual connection with 'black is beautiful.' Just the black experience and wanting to celebrate that. And I didn't know how to articulate that as a young child. Rachel Dolezal

I certainly don't stay out of the sun, and I also don't, as some of my critics have said, put on blackface as a performance. Rachel Dolezal

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I was not born in a teepee - that I know of. I actually don't know where I was born. Rachel Dolezal

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I have a huge issue with blackface. Rachel Dolezal

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It's a painful thing to talk about my childhood. I kind of don't talk about it much. Rachel Dolezal

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I was presented as a con and a fraud and a liar. I think some of the treatment was pretty cruel. Rachel Dolezal

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Blackness better defines who I am philosophically and socially than whiteness does. Rachel Dolezal

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About five years old, I was drawing self-portraits with the brown crayon instead of the peach crayon and, you know, the black curly hair. That's how I was portraying myself. Rachel Dolezal

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I think that it is too common for white feminists to say, 'We want some diversity. Come join our movement about gender, but we want you to check the class and race at the door.' And you can't undo that braid of race, class, and gender: all three intersect with each other, so it's important for more education to be done about that. Rachel Dolezal

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Race is such a contentious issue because of the painful history of racism. Race didn't create racism, but racism created race. Rachel Dolezal

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What I believe about race is that race is not real. It's not a biological reality. It's a hierarchical system that was created to leverage power and privilege between different groups of people. Rachel Dolezal

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Have I had experiences by other people identifying me as black and behaving towards me as black? Yes. Just for as long as maybe somebody who was born categorised as black? No. Rachel Dolezal

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