Bear with me, I will back up.
Dolezal became one of the most hated figures of the decade when it was revealed last year that she was "passing for black."
Her white parents famously outed her and a TV news reporter hit her with the revelation with his camera rolling.
Dolezal has done a TED Talk and of course is now planning a book about the struggle she went through.
She told NBC's "Today" show that the book will be about the complexity of race and people caught between the boundary lines of race, culture and ethnicity -- people who "don't fit into one box."
It sounds intriguing as Dolezal, the former president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People chapter in Spokane, Wash, describes it.
"Race is such a contentious issue because of the painful history of racism. Race didn't create racism, but racism created race," she told the Today show's Savannah Guthrie.
"I think it is important to really think through a lot of the topics and questions that people have. That's why this became visible because it challenged people to think about identity and what is race. Is it one human race? Why do we want to go back to that world view of separate races."
Sounds really interesting.
The problem is that I don’t think that’s what Dolezal’s story demonstrates.
Let's not forget that Dolezal acted to pull the wool over our eyes in her claim to be a black woman.
Time and time again, she rambles on about her experiences as a black woman when those were not legitimately her experiences.
She even claimed a black man as her father.
With her lies (some of which she seemingly still stands behind), I am doubting Dolezal is equipped to write the book she pitched on the Today show.
"I don't have any regrets about how I identify. I'm still me and nothing about that has changed," she told Guthrie.
No regrets?!?
If that were true, Dolezal would have lived her life free of the charade that still muddies equality's waters. It is clear that Dolezal does not grasp the harm her unnecessary deception has caused to that "what race is" discussion and the notion of holding on to separate races.
No matter how Dolezal tries to spin and market it, it is going to be hard to make this frown a smiley face.
I wish someone qualified would write Dolezal's book.
I would surely buy it because I am not buying Dolezal as an insightful authority.
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