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Rachel Dolezal's story recently sparked a national conversation about racial identity. 

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'I identify as black,' Rachel Dolezal says in TV interview


In the process, Dolezal set off a debate about racial identity, white privilege and cultural appropriation that has touched every corner of the country.


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Rachel Dolezal's racial identity switch has set off a debate that has touched every corner of the country.

Over the course of a few years, Rachel Dolezal went from being a single white mother of a biracial child to a racially conscious black female director of the N-Double-A-C-P chapter in Spokane, Washington. 

She did it by the force of her own will, until she was outed by her parents.

In the process, she set off a debate on racial identity, white privilege and cultural appropriation that has touched every corner of the country.

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