Current Events > Former president of NAACP's Spokane charged with welfare fraud

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This is crazy. Not only is this woman charged with welfare fraud... she is actually a white woman that pretended to be black... wut?

https://www.yahoo.com/news/rachel-dolezal-faces-felony-charges-033241627.html

Rachel Dolezal, the former president of NAACPs Spokane, Washington, chapter who was outed as a white woman pretending to be black, is facing felony charges of welfare fraud, perjury and false verification for public assistance.

NBC News affiliate KHQ-TV was the first to report on the charges made this week against Dolezal. KREM 2, a CBS news affiliate, later confirmed the charges with the Spokane County prosecutors office. If convicted, Dolezal could face up to 15 years in prison.

Dolezal came to national attention in 2015 after her family revealed shed been presenting herself as a black woman for years, even though they said she was born white. At the time, Dolezal was president of the Spokane chapter of the NAACP and worked as a part-time instructor of Africana studies at Eastern Washington University.

The revelation forced Dolezal to resign from the NAACP. She also stopped teaching at EWU. In 2016, Dolezal, a mother of three, officially changed her name to Nkechi Diallo, though she still uses her former name on her art website and social media pages.

Washington states Department of Social and Health Services began investigating Dolezal in March 2017 after learning that Dolezal, who was receiving public assistance from the department, had published a book.

The investigator found that Dolezals book publisher typically offers contracts that include payments of $10,000 to $20,000 but a review of her records revealed that shed only reported an income of $300 per month in the form of gifts from friends, according to court documents published by KHQ-TV.

The Spokane County prosecutors office accused Dolezal of being overpaid a total of $8,847 for food assistance and child care assistance from the states Department of Social and Health Services between Aug. 1, 2015, and Nov. 30, 2017.

During that period, according to the investigation, an estimated $83,924.96 had been deposited into Dolezals bank account in monthly installments.

Despite the controversy surrounding her racial fabrication, Dolezal still identifies as a black woman. She wrote about her experience in an autobiography, In Full Color: Finding My Place in a Black and White World, and was featured in a Netflix documentary this year.

Critics have taken particular exception to Dolezals widespread media exposure in light of the ongoingracialinjusticesthatblackAmericansexperienceday-to-day.

Weve probably all been guilty of sharing Dolezals story, or at least parts of it, at some point but we must recognize that it is distracting, counterproductive and unnecessary, Lilly Workneh, then the senior editor of HuffPost Black Voices, wrote in March 2017. Lets return our focus to more pressing matters affecting marginalized, overlooked and misrepresented communities of color.

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Everyone knows who Rachel Dolezal is, should have put that in title
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Rachel Dolezal is such an odd case.
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daftpunk_mk5 posted...

Everyone knows who Rachel Dolezal is, should have put that in title

Like this.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/400-current-events/76641763
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WrkHrdPlayHrdr posted...

daftpunk_mk5 posted...

Everyone knows who Rachel Dolezal is, should have put that in title

Like this.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/400-current-events/76641763

Oops
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she gives transracial people like myself a bad name
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known2FAIL posted...

WrkHrdPlayHrdr posted...

daftpunk_mk5 posted...

Everyone knows who Rachel Dolezal is, should have put that in title

Like this.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/400-current-events/76641763

Oops

Oh I don't care. I'm not Muffinz0rz
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known2FAIL posted...

she is actually a white woman that pretended to be black... wut?

Her story is actually pretty sad and almost understandable to a degree if you read about it.
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There's a racist joke in there somewhere.
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Ugh

Topics like this whose titles are borne of ignorance
they contribute to the misinformation

she's the lady who tried to pass herself off as black as a blatant LIE
got caught red handed pants down on live television and just ducked interviewers literally on camera

calling her a former naacp leader at this point is loaded and pointed rhetoric OBVIOUSLY formed to discredit a specific organization for SOME reason

i wonder why... (not pointing a finger at you, TC)
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Race is a social construct.
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lol

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