Rachel Dolezal struggles after racial identity scandal
SPOKANE, Wash. — A white civil rights leader, fired because she led others to believe she was black, said she struggles to make a living these days because she was portrayed as a fraud.
Rachel Dolezal said she has been unable to find steady work in the nearly two years since her background became public in media reports, and she is uncertain about her future.
“I was presented as a con and a fraud and a liar,” Dolezal told The Associated Press this week. “I think some of the treatment was pretty cruel.”
Now 40, she still identifies as black, despite being “Caucasian biologically,” she said. And she still has the darkened complexion and frizzy hair that allowed her for years to pass as a light-skinned black woman.