Rachel Dolezal Told a Student She 'Didn’t Look Hispanic' Enough

If you thought that the news about Rachel Dolezal—president of the Spokane, Washington NAACP who has been pretending to be black—had reached peak insanity, then you were wrong.

If you thought that the news about Rachel Dolezal—president of the Spokane, Washington NAACP who has been pretending to be black—had reached peak insanity, then you were wrong.

Rachel Dolezal’s white biological parents appeared on HuffPost Live this afternoon for an interview that was both sad and somehow still answered no questions. This is Marc Lamont Hill’s face during the segment. We are all Marc Lamont Hill’s face.
It’s the day after Rachel Dolezal blew up Twitter and thoroughly confused people. Who was this white woman pretending to be black, we all wondered, so black she became the president of the Spokane, Washington NAACP? Where did she come from? Well, she came, in part, from the historically black Howard University.
Of the many pressing questions raised by the Rachel Dolezal circus that was wrapped in a trainwreck and dipped in a forest fire, one of the things that stands out most for me is: How did she get her hair so on point?
In the coming days, the Rachel Dolezal story—the tale of a white woman from Spokane, Washington whose family said pretended to be black for almost a decade—will surely be used as a thinking-off point for many complicated and important ideas about race, power, passing, Iggy Azalea, etc. In the meantime, let it be a…