American - Activist | December 12, 1977 -
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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There's no such thing as racial, non-white supremacy.
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Everybody's life matters. But that's why we have to say black lives matter, because the highest disproportionality, police brutality, disenfranchisement, education disproportionality in school discipline, curriculum, misrepresentation, all of this.
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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.
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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.
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I don't think you can do something wrong with your identity if you're living in your authenticity.
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People didn't seem able to consider that maybe both were true. OK, I was born to white parents, but maybe I had an authentic black identity.
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My life is not a sound bite.
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Blackness better defines who I am philosophically and socially than whiteness does.
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I want to provide for my kids.
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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.
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Overall, my life has been one of survival, and the decisions that I have made along the way, including my identification, have been to survive.
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