Last month, the strange story of Rachel Dolezal briefly captivated the Internet until we all moved on to the next shiny object like some sort of ADHD house cat that loves to make fun of things.
In case you forgot, Dolezal pretended to be black, got called out on her life of lies, and proceeded to say a bunch of really dumb things in public.
Basically, the only good thing to come out of it was Maya Rudolph's impersonation of Dolezal, which was almost too on-point to be funny.
But while the rest of us have moved on to more important issues like the 4 millionth photo of Kim Kardashian's butt, Dolezal is still attempting to her milk her 15 minutes of fame.
We guess we can't blame her, since she apparently has about a week and a half to figure out how to pay her rent:
"It's not a costume," Dolezal said in a recent interview with Vanity Fair.
"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."
Asked about her current job situation, Dolezal says she was (not surprisingly) fired from the NAACP after her lies were exposed.
"I've got to figure it out before August 1, because my last paycheck was like $1,800 in June. [I lost] friends and the jobs and the work and—oh, my God—so much at the same time."
We suppose that'll happen when you base your career on a racial identity that turns out to be totally bogus.
Dolezal says she's planning to write a book (of course), and she confusingly claims that she's very sorry for her actions, even though she firmly believes she did nothing wrong:
"I just feel like I didn't mislead anybody; I didn't deceive anybody. If people feel misled or deceived, then sorry that they feel that way, but I believe that's more due to their definition and construct of race in their own minds than it is to my integrity or honesty, because I wouldn't say I'm African American, but I would say I'm black."
Clever marketing move. Throw out some totally confusing BS just so people will have to buy your book in an effort to understand.
Unfortunately for Dolezal, by the time her memoir goes to print, hundreds of videos of cats falling off of couches will have been posted to YouTube, thus thoroughly occupying the attention of the potential book-buying public.
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