I hope she writes a book about the experience called Black Like Me.
Oops. I think that book has already been written with the same title. As I recall, it was a staple of high school lit classes in the 1960s into the early 1970s.
The author of that work, which was a best seller and made into a movie, journalist John Howard Griffin, died in 1980 from complications of diabetes.
Dolezal will have to try for a different title.
Rachel Dolezal stepped down from her position as the president of an NAACP chapter in Washington State on Monday – days after her ethnic identity became a national controversy.
The civil rights activist made the announcement in an open letter – posted on Facebook – to the organization’s executive committee and members.
“It is with complete allegiance to the cause of racial and social justice and the NAACP that I step aside from the Presidency and pass the baton to my Vice President, Naima Quarles-Burnley,” she wrote.
Her intentions were good, but she went about it the wrong way.
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