Personally I identify as a Transtrillionaire. But society just isn't ready for people like me. Or Rachel.
You may remember former NAACP President Rachel Dolezal, our first openly transracial American (but not the last), who identified as a black woman despite being white. The scandal landed her a book deal, a Netflix documentary and apparently some cash she allegedly wasn't reporting while living off food stamps.
Former Spokane Chapter NAACP President Rachel Dolezal is now facing legal trouble that could land her behind bars. KHQ has confirmed that Dolezal, who legally changed her name to Nkechi Diallo in 2016, is accused of 1st Degree Theft by Welfare Fraud, Perjury in the 2nd Degree, and False Verification for Public Assistance. Her potential punishment under RCW 74.08.331 could include up to 15 years in prison
I blame racism.
The investigator conducted a review of Diallo's records and found she'd been reporting her income was usually less than $500 per month, in child support payments. At one point when asked as to how she was paying her bills, she reported, "Barely! With help from friends and gifts."
However, a subpoena for her self-employment records, which included copies of her bank statements from 2015 to present, tells a different story. The bank records, court documents say, showed Diallo had deposited about $83,924 into her bank account in several monthly installments between August 2015 and September 2017, without reporting the income to the Department of Social and Health Services. The money, according to the case file, had come from authoring her book, 'In Full Color,' speaking engagements, soap making, doll making, and the sale of her art.
That surprised me. I assumed she actually was broke. Here she was last year.
“Today Dolezal is jobless, and feeding her family with food stamps. A friend helped her pay this month’s rent; next month she expects to be homeless. She has applied for more than 100 jobs, but no one will hire her, not even to stack supermarket shelves. She applied for a position at the university where she used to teach, and says she was interviewed by former colleagues who pretended to have no recollection of having met her. The only work she has been offered is reality TV, and porn."
Apparently she's not doing quite so badly. Though $83K over two years for a single mother with a few kids in Spokane isn't a fortune either.
But if Rachel Dolezal could identify as a black person, why not a poor person? Is transpoor any sillier than transracial? And it's not as if lefties don't play transpoor even more often than they go transracial?
It's time we showed more tolerance and recognized Rachel Dolezal's right to her delusions. And to have her delusions treated as fact by everyone else. I say that as a transtrillionaire.