Posted: 6/12/15 at 3:19pm
She's D'orthea! Where's Dee Dee?
Posted: 6/12/15 at 3:42pm
Really! Don't you wish she'd been R'achel?
Posted: 6/12/15 at 3:56pm
Well...at least she won't get sickle cell anemia.
(I, too, immediately thought of D'or from TALES).
Posted: 6/12/15 at 4:15pm
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
I don't know if I'm just giddy that I'm about to head out to Fire Island, but that just KILLED me.
Posted: 6/12/15 at 4:34pm
Yeah that's the greatest!
Posted: 6/12/15 at 5:13pm
When she has one too many, does she get white girl wasted?
I vote Laura Linney for the film version. Seriously, take another look, perfect. They can even modify the title of her Showtime series, "The (Really) Big C."
Updated On: 6/12/15 at 05:13 PM
Posted: 6/12/15 at 5:14pm
Ha! That IS great.
So, one other facet of this story we haven't discussed was briefly mentioned in the Daily Mail article: one of her adoptive brothers choosing to leave their parents and move in with Rachel. This has obviously created a lot of tension between the parties:
She has also spoken about her 'black sons' - but her mother told CDAPress.com that one of those boys is Izaiah Dolezal - who is, in fact, one of four infants Rachel's parents adopted in the 1990s.
Izaiah, now 21, has since gone to live with Dolezal and no longer speaks with his adopted parents.
The Washington Post reported that the disagreement over Izaiah appears to have driven the family apart more than her claims about her race.
'I can understand hairstyles and all that,' Zach Dolezal said of his sister. 'Saying her brother is her son, I don't understand that.'
Posted: 6/12/15 at 5:19pm
Posted: 6/12/15 at 5:25pm
^^ "This is damn near a street style shot at Afropunk."
L O L
I just assumed they were really expensive wigs and extensions.
Posted: 6/12/15 at 5:30pm
"I vote Laura Linney for the film version."
No, they have to do multiple actresses like they did with Judy Garland and Bob Dylan biopics.
Laura Linney starts, then Jennifer Beals or Maya Rudolph takes over
Posted: 6/12/15 at 5:30pm
^"There are ... complexities."
Updated On: 6/12/15 at 05:30 PM
Posted: 6/12/15 at 5:34pm
I wonder what she told her stylist(s).
Posted: 6/12/15 at 5:36pm
Kara Brown is hilarious on Jezebel: "This story has the distinct honor of being both incredibly offensive, yet not at all offensive, as well as hilarious."
That nails the complexities right there!
Posted: 6/12/15 at 6:30pm
Oh God. The #AskRachel questions on Twitter and Instagram are killing me.
Posted: 6/12/15 at 10:56pm
Might this be as simple as someone who lied on her employment application because she thought that being bi-racial would help her land the job? Now that it's been blown up into a media story, it may be taking on profound insinuations she never expected. If she had some statement to make about being transracial, wouldn't she have articulated that instead of walking away when asked if her parents were white?
Posted: 6/12/15 at 11:33pm
It might be all sorts of things.
Posted: 6/12/15 at 11:48pm
It's been fascinating following this. As scandals go, it's juicy without being too salacious. Even the reaction I've seen to it hasn't been all that harsh. I think most people see a woman who meant well, but had a benevolently (and quasi-racistly) inappropriate manifestation of that. The fact that the NAACP put out such supportive statement makes me want to see her get help, more than anything.
Updated On: 6/13/15 at 11:48 PM
Posted: 6/13/15 at 12:37am
That's kind of why I keep rereading the Kara Brown quote and giggling.
Posted: 6/13/15 at 2:06am
Why are y'all purposing that poor woman??
Posted: 6/13/15 at 2:51am
"Poor woman?" She already has a book deal and a Lifetime movie in the works.
Posted: 6/13/15 at 6:18am
Surely to heaven those amazing "natural" curls have to be on a wig, right?! I have natural white girl curls. LOTS of them. I would pay a LOT to get that kind of control over them.
Updated On: 6/13/15 at 06:18 AM
Posted: 6/13/15 at 8:50am
"Blackish Like Me"
Posted: 6/13/15 at 9:01am
The Psychology of an Ethnic Fraud
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