Black Twitter Has NO Chill! #RachelsMixtape Trends After Rachel Dolezal's Vanity Fair Shoot + Rachel CLAIMS She's Doing WEAVES & Braids To Make Ends Meet!
Black Twitter is at it again! After the release of Rachel Dolezal’s Vanity Fair shoot and interview, Twitter has gone into a frenzy with the #RachelsMixtape hashtag, making jokes that her shoot resembles the cover of a mixtape. Ha! Get your laugh on inside…
Former Spokane NAACP chapter president Rachel Dolezal’s 15 minutes of fame has just been extended. Kinda. Rachel, who believes she is of African-American decent because that’s who she relates to, did an interview with Vanity Fair that has social media on fire.
We’ll get into a few highlights of her interview in a second, but first we must address the Twitter antics that followed the release of her interview. Folks are firing shots at Rachel saying her cover photo looks like it could be a mixtape cover (above). Ha! It actually does.
We’ve rounded up a few mixtape titles that will surely give you a laugh:
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Hilar! #BlackTwitter never lets us down when it comes to clever hashtags.
Now on to the article….
Chopping it up with Vanity Fair about what life is like after the “I’m black” controversy, Rachel still claims she’s black, even after her parents outed her as being of Czech, Swedish and German decent.
She said,
“It’s not a costume...I don’t know spiritually and metaphysically how this goes, but I do know that from my earliest memories I have awareness and connection with the black experience, and that’s never left me. It’s not something that I can put on and take off anymore. Like I said, I’ve had my years of confusion and wondering who I really [was] and why and how do I live my life and make sense of it all, but I’m not confused about that any longer. I think the world might be— but I’m not.”
That’s her story and she’s clearly sticking to it.
Now that she has lost her job as an African studies professor at Eastern Washington University and she’s no longer the Spokane NAACP chapter president, Rachel says she’s making ends meet by….wait for it…BRAIDING and WEAVING black women’s hair!
She explained, “I’ve got to figure it out before August 1, because my last paycheck was like $1,800 in June,” she says. “[I lost] friends and the jobs and the work and—oh, my God—so much at the same time.”
You better get your hustle on Rachel girl...
While she was in college in Mississippi, she says she grew passionate about taking care and styling black hair, so she learned how to do it and make money from it. Now, she claims this is her only way of income for her to support herself and her 13-year-old son Franklin. Chile…
When we first learned she was doing black hair to make ends meet, we questioned WHO is actually going to her to get their wig smoked? But it appears she has a steady clientele. Rachel claims she books about 3 appointments a week for braids and weaves.
Well, there you have it. You can read her full interview here.
http://theybf.com/2015/07/21/black-twitter-has-no-chill-rachelsmixtape-trends-after-rachel-dolezals-vanity-fair-shoot
Posted By: Jeni Fa
Friday, July 31st 2015 at 4:51PM
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