Rachel Dolezal Denied Student Class Participation for Not Being “Hispanic Enough”

By: Laura Meyers

Our good buddy Rachel Dolezal once told one of her students that she wasn’t “hispanic-looking enough” to participate in a class activity.

The anonymous student told BuzzFeed News that she took two courses with Dolezal at Eastern Washington University.

During an introductory course on race and culture, Dolezal introduced an activity she called “Fishbowl,” in which one student sits in front of the class while others ask that person questions about their cultural and racial experiences.

Dolezal asked for the first volunteer to be a student of hispanic background.

Buzzfeed News reports:

The student, who told BuzzFeed News that she identifies as Hispanic, grew up in a Spanish-speaking country, speaks the language fluently, and, while she has light skin, believes she has a “pretty solid experience of what it’s like to be Spanish.” She raised her hand to participate.

“I think we should ask another student,” the student recalled Dolezal saying in class.

The student asked why she could not participate.

“Rachel said I didn’t look Hispanic,” she said, and that her instructor “doubted that I could share experiences of racial or ethnic discrimination because I didn’t have the appearance of looking Hispanic.”

Dolezal instead selected another Hispanic-identified student to sit before the class.

“I didn’t think much of it at the time,” the student said, “but now I wish I had said something, especially now that her race is the one people are questioning.”

The hypocrisy is real, folks.

It was also recently discovered that in 2014, shortly after the release of the movie “Exodus: Gods and Kings,” Dolezal called for a boycott of the film because it featured white actors portraying black characters.

“Hopefully nobody goes to that film. We need to boycott that film, from my perspective, because it’s miseducation, it’s misrepresentation, it’s highly offensive to the people that actually were living during that time and also to people today,” Dolezal said in a radio interview.

If all this confuses you, then you read it correctly.