Rachel Dolezal, who has dominated headlines around the world for four straight days, on Monday announced in a post on Facebook that she had resigned as head of the Spokane chapter of the NAACP. Dolezal was supposed to hold a press conference, but that was canceled.
I came to this conclusion after reading the Facebook post: Dolezal is quite mad. What else explains her refusal to provide answers for the big questions confronting her from all sides? She did not explain her “natural” hair, the photos of a younger woman who resembles her but who clearly has white hair (the whitest hair: blond), and the fact that she has identified herself as black when her parents insist she is not. Instead, in the face of thousands of angry comments, tweets, and op-eds that accused her of deception, Dolezal simply and madly insisted that she is a hero of the black cause…
