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Why Rachel Dolezal still tries to bend racial rules

Remember Rachel Dolezal? The 40-year-old Spokane, Wash., civil rights activist became a national punchline three years ago when her status as a woman of color turned out to be, shall we say, based on artificial colors.

Dolezal became an issue in the national race debate when a TV newsman in Spokane, where she led the local NAACP chapter and taught African-American studies at Eastern Washington University, outed her after being tipped off by her quite white

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