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Here’s What Happened When Rachel Dolezal Told Black South Africans About Her Struggles Being ‘Trans Black’

John Bickley

“Trans black” woman Rachel Dolezal — former NAACP official and author of a new book In Full Color, who now goes by the name of Nkechi Amare Diallo — journeyed to South Africa to get in touch with her racial roots and explain to black South Africans how hard it was to be “authentic black” despite being completely white. Apparently, her trans-racial spiel went over about as well there as it did here.

Dolezal/Diallo was invited by a self-identified “bishop” to speak at the inaugural Quest for Non Racial South African Society Dialogue in Johannesburg last week in front of a largely black audience of students from the University of Johannesburg as well as various activists. According to The Daily Mail, the response was enthusiastic but in all the wrong ways.

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