asked 181k views
16 votes
Why did Rachel Dolezal want people to think she was black?.

asked
User Bluuf
by
8.2k points

1 Answer

8 votes

Answer:

two years ago, she was a respected black rights activist and teacher. Then she was exposed as a white woman who had deceived almost everyone she knew. Why did she do it? Dolezale’s white parents released photographs of their daughter as a blond white child, and appeared on tv to denounce her as a fraud; she had been living a lie, pretending to be black, when she was no more African American than they were. Dolezal resigned from her NAACP position, was fired by the university, lost her local newspaper column and was removed from the police ombudsman commission. Enthralled by her disgrace, talk shows and radio phone-ins sneered and raged. Why did she do it? What had she been thinking? When it emerged that she had once sued a university for discriminating against her because she was white, Dolezal’s notoriety was complete.

Step-by-step explanation:

answered
User Oscar Godson
by
7.6k points
Welcome to Qamnty — a place to ask, share, and grow together. Join our community and get real answers from real people.