Rachel Dolezal, who once lectured on the 'politics' of black hair, making ends meet by doing braids

We would have thought this was a joke post if we hadn’t seen it for ourselves in black and white in Vanity Fair.

Rachel Dolezal is doing weaves and braids to make ends meet now. http://t.co/UjQ31OOerh pic.twitter.com/711S55l09r

— SFist (@SFist) July 20, 2015

The news cycle surrounding Rachel Dolezal, the former NAACP chapter president and African studies professor whose parents “outed” her as white, has passed, but after appearing virtually everywhere, Vanity Fair reports that she now can be found doing weaves and braids three days a week to make ends meet.

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Hooooo boy: Rachel Dolezal Still Says She’s Black, and Now Does Hair Weaves and Braids After Losing Jobs http://t.co/myl1Lj1FIg

— anubha momin (@anubhamomin) July 20, 2015

WE CAN'T MAKE THIS MESS UP…ex #NAACP leader who claims to be BLACK is making a living doing WEAVES http://t.co/E97LDA6Xhw

— BlackMediaScoop (@BlackMediaSCOOP) July 20, 2015

If you do need a weave, Dolezal has the academic credentials to do it up right. “At Eastern Washington University, she lectured on the politics and history of black hair, and she says she developed a passion for taking care of and styling black hair while in college in Mississippi,” Vanity Fair reports.