There's no such thing as "Transracial"

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10. It's too bad the discussion wasn't more about race versus culture.

Misguided people in the last century used to remove tribal kids from their homes and adopt them out to "more stable" (aka richer) white couples. What they ended up with were brown people raised in white culture who didn't know where they belonged, physically unwelcome in white culture and culturally unwelcome in their tribes.

The result was hard enough on the children that tribes have sued and managed to stop the practice of adopting their children out of the tribe.

In Dolezal's case, she was brought up with adopted black brothers who likely found their way into what we think of as black culture in school and she followed along with them. I don't think anything about this case is clear cut enough to call it outright fraud. Cultural lines were so blurred that a lot of people were able to discount her appearance, including herself.

Yes, it is offensive to black folks who could have done the job and probably should have been given the job, but I doubt her motives were malicious. She's notorious and unemployed now and that should be enough punishment to satisfy anyone.