Four takeaways from 'The Rachel Divide,' Netflix's new documentary about Rachel Dolezal
by Tre'vell Anderson, Los Angeles Times
Apr 27, 2018
4 minutes
"All my mom did is say she was black and people lost their minds."
This is how Franklin, the then-13-year-old son of Rachel Dolezal describes the socio-political brouhaha his mother created almost three years ago when it was revealed that she - a woman who identifies as black and led the NAACP chapter in Spokane, Wash. - was born to biological parents who are white. The interview occurs in Laura Brownson's documentary, "The Rachel Divide," which recently premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and began streaming Friday on Netflix.
But as many will remember from the year or so after Dolezal's rise to notoriety in 2015, the conversation is a lot more complex and
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