Rachel Dolezal Faces Felony Charge

You guys – have you watched the Rachel Dolezal documentary on Netflix? I watched it a couple weeks ago and was completely fascinated by it. Her entire story just makes me shake my head, but y’all know I love a good freakshow, and she definitely qualifies.

In the documentary, it was revealed that she sold fewer than 600 copies of her book In Full Color: Finding My Place in a Black and White World.

Yikes.

I felt huge amounts of sympathy for her kids, because they were/are plenty old enough to be deeply impacted by her stupid identity crisis. And even as her middle schooler made it clearly known how much he was suffering because of her insistence that she was black, she kept it up. And she does to this day.

At the end of the documentary, Rachel is seen heading to the BMV to fetch a new driver’s license with her new name: Nkechi Diallo. Yes, really.

There were moments while I watched, although very fleeting ones, where I thought, “Well, that kinda sucks for her.” But then I remembered how she totally brought this all on herself.

Including this.

According to that sourcelink, Rachel now faces a felony theft charge in her home state of Washington because she lied about her finances in order to obtain nine thousand dollars worth of food and childcare assistance.

Washington’s department of Social and Health Services started exploring Rachel’s finances in March of last year after her book was released. And what they found, is that she’d claimed that her only source of income was $300 monthly in “gifts from friends.” And seeing as how she’d made an $84,000 deposit into her bank account between August of 2015 and September of 2017, something was clearly not adding up.

Investigators now claim that the 84k came from sale of her book (although I’m assuming much of that was an advance and not Actual Sales), in addition to the sale of her art, soaps, and handmade crafts.

In the documentary, Rachel is shown painting, and I gotta say, she’s fantastically gifted as an artist. She really does have talent. So it’s not surprising to me that she was able to sell her work.

But for crying out loud, she should have reported her income instead of ripping off tax payers.

As a result of all of this, she’s also being charged with perjury and making false verification for public assistance.

One of the struggles highlighted in the documentary about Rachel was her inability to secure a job, given how recognizable her name is. She explained in the doc that she received income from braiding people’s hair in her home. But I do think it’s odd that if her name was such a lightning rod, why in the world would she include her name change IN THE DOCUMENTARY? Wasn’t the whole point to make a brand new start?

Wait. No. The point was to change her name to something that she thinks sounds more authentically African, because she’s a lunatic.

To this day, she maintains her blackness. Last year, she told the AP that she still identifies as black, and can’t understand why people give her a hard time about it. Despite being biologically Caucasian, she insisted, “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.”

Or maybe you’re just a lunatic.

You can find Rachel on Instagram right here. That’s another thing that was of note from the Netflix show – she is constantly reading what people are commenting on her social media accounts, and then constantly feeling victimized over it.

Anyway, yeah. She’s being charged with felony welfare fraud now.