Here’s a part of an Amazon review of her book, (provided what Rachel wrote is true, of course) that I found to be rather apt in describing her “woe is me” syndrome:
“...Let’s talk more about contradictions. She discusses how racist it was for people to “paw at” the hair of her black siblings’ numerous times. But she also discusses an instance where a black child stroked the long silky hair of a white woman and seems disappointed by her own hair, and the white woman did nothing to console the child. (Don’t worry though, hero Rachel, who reads everyone’s minds, and knows exactly what is going on in the head of every person in every situation, did console the poor kid!) So, strangers touching black hair=wrong and racist. But black people touching white people’s hair=OK, and a sign that they feel victimized and violated by said white person. Check. Got it. *eye roll* Listen, my daughter and I are both white with extremely long hair. We both have had stranger’s hands in our hair, without our permission, all our lives. People of every race just about, have ran their hands through my hair and hers. As a teacher of young people, hands in my hair is an every single day thing now. I don’t like it. I have never liked it. How about we stop reading so much into it, and everybody just keep their grubby mits out of everybody’s hair? Alright?
Cultural appropriation. BOY is Rachel still significantly confused about this topic. Her WHOLE book is all about how and why it is perfectly fine for her to present herself as black, but she has SO MANY complaints about her ex husband who, according to her, wanted to be white. Um. Hold on a minute. It’s fine for her to want to be black, but for him, it makes him basically this evil d-bag? At the tail end of her marriage she suddenly claims there was physical abuse, but the rest of it she portrayed as your typical coo coo bird religious bs that she voluntarily submitted to and most of her animosity stemmed from him wanting to be white, and forcing her to be white.
Me thinks Ms. Rachel hates white people. At one point she actually states that she doesn’t view life with a white point of view. That comment actually infurfriated me. Yes. You. Do. Maybe you are an empathetic white person. Maybe you sympathize with the plight of other cultures (or at least one other culture), but you surely do view life through the lens of a white person. You might hate white people all day long, but yes, that is your point of view.” (source)
She also seems to claim that many people in her life have abused her. Whether or not that's a default of hers for again, playing the victim is making the discerning decision as to who's to be believed and motives for accusing and/or denying the allegations. I do agree with you that she’s getting more out of her 15 minutes of fame contacting the media about disclosing her sexuality.
