As discussion rages over whether Rachel Dolezal, recently resigned president of Spokane's NAACP chapter, is guilty of "racial fraud," The New York Times solicited a range of views on the issue. Among those debating:
Kevin Noble, African-American law professor at New York's Syracuse University: "Racial separation — or even “purity” — is so ingrained in Americans that many multiracial people consider themselves monoracial ... Even the most well-known multiracial person in the world, President Barack Obama, checked only one box on his census form."
And Heidi W. Durrow, biracial author of the novel, The Girl Who Fell From the Sky: "My father was African-American and my mother is Danish. ... because of the peculiar way that math and race work together in America, I was black. But those facts conflicted with my actual experience."
