American - Activist | December 12, 1977 -
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.
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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.
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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.
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I'm more black than I am white. That's the accurate answer from my truth.
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I really feel like there have been moments of some level of creative nonfiction. I have kind of had to explain or justify some of the timeline and logistics of my life in a way that made sense to others.
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I was not born in a teepee - that I know of. I actually don't know where I was born.
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I have a huge issue with blackface.
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I did work and bought all my own clothes and shoes since I was 9 years old. That's not a typical American childhood life.
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I felt very isolated with my identity virtually my entire life, that nobody really got it and that I didn't really have the personal agency to express it.
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Hopefully, even if I am judged or there's confusion, anger, about how I identify, I hope that people can understand that family is fluid.
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Any man can be a father; not any man can be a dad.
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