The embattled former Spokane, Washington, NAACP chapter president told Vanity Fair that she’s lost friends and jobs and money over her controversial contention that she’s a black woman, despite so clearly being Caucasian.
“It’s not a costume,” she said. “I don’t know spiritually and metaphysically how this goes, but I do know that from my earliest memories I have awareness and connection with the black experience, and that’s never left me. It’s not something that I can put on and take off anymore. Like I said, I’ve had my years of confusion and wondering who I really [was] and why and how do I live my life and make sense of it all, but I’m not confused about that any longer. I think the world might be — but I’m not.”
As for her main old job, Dolezal says she’s been getting a mixed response from former colleagues.
Dolezal told Vanity Fair that her last paycheck — $1,800 or so — came on June 1. With a 13-year-old son, she has to figure out something fast. You listening, literary world?
“I would like to write a book just so that I can send [it to] everybody there as opposed to having to continue explaining,” she says. “After that comes out, then I’ll feel a little bit more free to reveal my life in the racial social-justice movement. I’m looking for the quickest way back to that, but I don’t feel like I am probably going to be able to re-enter that work with the type of leadership required to make change if I don’t have something like a published explanation.”
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