Dolezal can’t be trusted

If the phrase “imitation is the greatest form of flattery” has any substance, then Rachel Dolezal has paid the African-American community a compliment, sort of. There are two sides to that alleged compliment. Her major flaw was in using her racial preference as an instrument for personal gain and a path to positions she may not have acquired were she Caucasian. We’ll never really know what other outcomes would have been.

But because of her “transracial” identity or self-description and her actions as a pretender, she has insulted the very integrity and moral identity of the black community. Not her intent, I’m sure, but what she’s done doesn’t help anyone, of any color.

The bottom line is that this woman cannot be trusted. Her obvious distaste and denigration of her own race, especially the parents who raised her, and her claim to be African-American when she’s not, brings into question every choice she’s made as an adult.

She needs to step down, or be removed, from every position she’s attained during her deception.

David Bray

Spokane