Rachel Dolezal's Book Available for Pre-Order!
"If the first line of Rachel Dolezal's book isn't 'I'm White' I'm not interested."
11.3.2016
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Remember Rachel Dolezal, the NAACP leader who became a temporary national sensation after it was revealed she was actually a white woman passing as black? The woman who declared that race is fluid and that pretending to be black was "my truth" is back in the news with the announcement of her memoir, In Full Color: Finding My Way in a Black and White World, according to the UK Daily Mail. It won't be released until March, but good news -- you can pre-order it now on Amazon!
Her social media announcement immediately drew fire. "Please tell me what she knows about being a REAL TRUE black woman?" one Instagram user commented on Dolezal's post. "You'll NEVER know our struggles and I don't care how much dark spray tan you put on."
"You really don't understand the Black Experience because you still hold your white privilege," another added.
"To get a book published because of your lie is a slap in the face to all of the struggling Black Women authors that cannot land a book deal due to prejudices," wrote a third.
The book is described in a synopsis as the story of Dolezal's path from being a child of white evangelical parents to "an NAACP chapter president and respected educator and activist who identified as black." Dolezal will explore the "deep emotional bond" she developed with her four adopted black siblings and the "sense of belonging she felt while living in black communities.
"Her story is nuanced and complex, and in the process of telling it, she forces us to consider race in an entirely new light. Not as a biological imperative, but as a function of the experience we have, the culture we embrace, and, ultimately, the identity we choose."
So now we apparently can choose not only our gender, but our race as well. If that's so, then what is the basis for the left's identity politics? If race and gender are mere cultural constructs that we can don like so much spray tan and dreadlocks, then these traits have no real meaning and the left's insistence on dividing us along those lines is a scam.
At $15 and 256 pages, the hardcover will also discuss "the discrimination" Dolezal suffered "while living as a black woman."
The Daily Mail notes that, post-controversy, Dolezal has given birth to her third child, a boy named Langston Attickus Dolezal; she now makes a living by braiding hair, specializing in styles popular among African-American women; andher book proposal was shopped to more than 30 publishers before she landed a deal with independent publisher BenBella.
We think we'll wait for the Lifetime movie adaptation.
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