Ever since Rachel Dolezal became famous for pretending to be black in 2015, her story has fascinated me. On the one hand, she is a traitor to her people and an unstable basket case. On the other, she is a talented white person who has been failed by modern Western society. She has an artist’s temperament and, like the proverbial “canary in the coal mine,” is acutely sensitive to the rootlessness that plagues white people today. (more…)
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