Rachel Dolezal's definition of 'transracial' isn't just wrong, it's destructive | Syreeta McFadden

To deny ethnic and cultural differences is to erase the identities of those who cannot chooseAfter days of speculation, Rachel Dolezal appeared on the Today show and declared herself transracial – and blamed other people’s misunderstanding of the term on why she came to be identified as black. “I was actually identified when I was doing human rights work in north Idaho as first transracial”, she said – in a construction that conveniently negated her agency in that decision – and expl