Tag: rachel dolezal

How can the Spokane NAACP move past the Rachel Dolezal story? After a community meeting Monday night, the answer, it seems is by becoming a larger, more unified organization.

Our society loves the downfall of an upstanding citizen. Use of the word schadenfreude, a German word meaning the joy one experiences at the misfortune of another, has sharply increased over the past 20 years.

The convoluted manner in which Americans divide themselves, having much to do with our mixed past, has again become a hot topic with both Jeb Bush claiming to be a Hispanic and the controversy swirling around Spokane local Rachael Dolezal.

Statements like “I identify as black” may sound as if they’re giving deference to personal prerogative, but they cheapen the integrity with which individuals risk relationship, face the sins of their (white) ancestry and overcome estrangement.

Here is a collection of the SpokaneFAVS Rachel Dolezal coverage so far. This post will be added to as we continue to report and columnists continue to write reflections on this evolving story.

The name Rachel Dolezal is probably forever associated with Spokane's history. The various inter-connected threads of her unfolding story or ending story in Spokane are on overload for most people after this last week.

Recently, media outlets have been flooded with issues of parenting; there’s the “free-range” parents, the conservative Christian parents, and now questions about the parents and parenting of Rachel Dolezal.