It is a bit extreme, but it is in no way new for white people to take what they want from other cultures in the name of love and respect, while distorting or discarding the remainder of that culture for their comfort.” And if racial justice doesn't center her, she will redefine race itself in order to make that happen. Then Oluo wrote about how her anger toward Dolezal melted away with a particular realization of how Dolezal was not really a radical, original phenomenon but simply another manifestation of the everyday white supremacy all around us: “Dolezal is simply a white woman who cannot help but center herself in all that she does-including her fight for racial justice. It was the most important question of the interview and one that Dolezal, in her own book, had said she hated being asked.
In Ijeoma Oluo’s now-viral interview with Rachel Dolezal (the white woman who identifies as black), Oluo described how she asked Dolezal the same question about privilege and identity several different ways before giving up in frustration. So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
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