I Refuse to Rubberneck Rachel Dolezal’s Train Wreck

Why I’m Not Watching Netflix’s “The Rachel Divide”

Kitanya Harrison

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Rachel Dolezal: Before and after

I don’t like Rachel Dolezal. I don’t believe she’s misunderstood or mentally unbalanced or confused. I think she’s a shameless attention-seeker, a vile narcissist, and a grifter. She’s a thief. And the thing she covets the most and is desperately trying to misappropriate is Blackness…

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Kitanya Harrison

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