Will Rachel Dolezal deliver Affirmative Action coup de grâce?
June 17, 2015
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If Rachel Dolezal didn't exist, someone would have had to invent her because she so embodies everything that is wrong with race-based politics and theories so prevalent in Higher Ed.
Dolezal is white. Elizabeth Warren white. As Mark Steyn once put it with regard to Warren, "the whitest white since Frosty the Snowman fell in a vat of Wite-Out."
Warren passed herself off as Native American, but mostly in secret so she could get put on a list of Minority Law Teachers in a 1980s directory used for hiring.
Dolezal was very public in her adoption of a black identity. And she's standing by it.
Because Dolezal feels black, she says she is. It's what is called among the campus activist class "lived experience."
It is a well-worn script: