SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Former Spokane, Washington, NAACP leader Rachel Dolezal, who resigned amid criticism that she was passing herself off as black, has changed her name to Nkechi Amare Diallo.
Court documents show a judge granted her request on Oct. 7, 2016. Her new name has origins in Africa.
The former Dolezal has acknowledged that she is “Caucasian biologically” but says she identifies as black.
Her race became a national topic of conversation in 2015 after a local news reporter questioned her on camera about her background.
She told Britain’s The Guardian newspaper last week that that she can’t find a job and the only work she has been offered is in reality TV and porn.
Her memoir is set to be released later this month.
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Somehow I don’t think that Rachel has quite grasped the reasons her earlier behavior was universally considered so problematic.
Good name, makes her fall in with the crowd…
Of all the people I want to hear news about, she is not one. TPM, if you’re going to add an occasional fluff piece into the mix, make it about a puppy-in-a-drainpipe rescue or something.
TPM needs a blacklist. People who shall not be reported on (or fed to us from AP). TOP OF THE LIST: George Zimmerman, because seriously fuck that guy. After that:
I’m not going to be buying her book…
That earthshaking revelation is, in (my) opinion, about (or more so) as important as anything she is up too these days.
Maybe next we can have two articles in a row about Kim Davis, because lord knows I’m on pins and needles about her too…