In a generation where posers are famous, Rachel Dolezal reminds us again, how shameless posers can really be thanks to the new documentary she is filming at Howard University.
If you aren’t familiar with Dolezal, she is a Caucasian woman who was discovered to have been posing as an African American woman while working as a professor of African American Studies, an activist and President of the NAACP’s Spokane chapter. Now, she is back to remind us who she is (or isn’t) in a documentary on race and identity filmed at Howard University. Ironically, in 2002 when Rachel Dolezal still identified as white, she sued Howard University for racial discrimination.
Maya Cade, executive editor of A Tribe Called News said that the 38 year old was spotted on Howard’s campus June 9th while filming a documentary about “race and identity in America”. In case you need a little more irony: the film is directed by a white man.
No word on when the documentary will be available, but Howard students surely aren’t anticipating its release. Several Howard students have taken to Twitter to express their understandable confusion.
I don’t know what Dolezal can teach anyone about race or identity, but to each his own. Are you going to check out the documentary when it’s released?
