MHP did a good job.

I felt really unsettled throughout the interview and really could discern why.

Then, the interview ended and I re-played it, and understand why I was feeling unsettled ... and it had little to do with anything Dolezal or MHP said; it was because of the intro clip, wherein the segment was introduced as something to the effect of "defining Blackness" ... How the hell does a white woman (whether she "feels" or "identifies" as Black or not) get to define Blackness?

Cali posted a great link from the NYT earlier

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/16/opinion/rachel-dolezals-harmful-masquerade.html?_r=0

Every time MHP asked her an uncomfortable question, ie one that challenged her claim, she gave this laugh before semi-answering. My son used to do that just before he was about to lie to me. It was a big tell then and, imo, it was a big tell tonight wrt Dolezal.

...this woman's 15 minutes is up!

Peace

What strikes me most - it's as if she views being black as some sort of adventure; SHE is actually exacerbating the separation between skin color.

Her reasoning doesn't work because when it comes down to it, we are all PEOPLE. We all have the same emotions and have the same wants and needs. Her identification with black culture (whatever that means to her) is pathological.

Her lies and actions have hurt a lot of people. There's nothing right about what she's doing - she's lived a huge lie.

So some "different" white chick had some funky ideas about race and her role. Not the first time that's happened. White people have always had funky ideas about race.

A guy got shot to death a few blocks from my house the other night. She's Public Enemy and he's "just another nigga dead." Somehow the NYP, NYDN and NYT all seemed to overlook his death. What a surprise. Plenty of time to ride some screwed up white girl playing house black though. Plenty of time for that.

but I couldn't shake my discomfort with her deception. Still, I figured that I did not know the whole story or what was really in her heart. Were her motives pure or were they pure manipulation for some gain? But listening to her dodgy answers was like trying to nail jello to a wall. And, at times, I almost felt like I was listening to Sarah - a whole lot of words but no discernible meaning. Still don't know about her but the interview did not win me over. Just my humble opinion.

I think there's some seriously delusional thinking here about who she is and what she can identify with, but having read some articles about her family an upbringing (they're Creationist missionaries who adopted three black children in a strange attempt to save them) and how she won awards for art from a black perspective, I can imagine how this might have become an obsession. I'm not thinking in terms of right or wrong at the moment, just how and why.