Phonearl Good start, but then it gets ruined

Chirphymium It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

Jonah Abbott There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

Curt Watching it is like watching the spectacle of a class clown at their best: you laugh at their jokes, instigate their defiance, and "ooooh" when they get in trouble.

kellybailey-23521 If Rachel Dolezal (forgot her new name, sorry) did actually suffer a traumatic childhood, and I believe she did, then she deserves compassion.I understand the divide regarding Dolezal's identity and I do agree with many people from the black community's (and others) responses. However, there is much more to be gained through understanding than outrage and hate.This doc left me straddling the line and I think most people would benefit from thinking in this position.

asais It was interesting to see the back story of someone who would go this far to disassociate themselves from reality. But in a way you can see that she's not fallen as far from the tree as she imagines, the white savior like her parents, adopting black children, just in a different way, fueled by religious fervor of a moral crusade. Her artistic skill is surprisingly good, its a shame she wasted it to become part of the diversity and grievance industry. But that's the thing this film reveals, she can barely fix her own life let alone anyone elses, a single mother, divorced, saddled with many children, while divorced has another child against the fathers wishes while she has no job. Is she trying to live an ugly stereotype and bring it to life? The doc does fail to really delve deeper into what she got herself into, the vast infrastructure of the diversity industry. How this nobody became a NAACP branch president, where did they get their money, how was she teaching courses in colleges? The vast flows of money to create these human networks of diversity propagandists is something a netflix doc is never going to deal with, and that's too bad, because it destroys lives, not just Rachels, but those it indoctrinates with the poison of a history and identity of grievance. She might have been a decent artist, maybe even a history teacher, if she had not tried to be what she was not and had spent her time on herself rather than trying to be the white savior. When she joined the game of identity politics she learned the lesson that the content of her character meant nothing. That is the lesson of her life, and this film.

nadinesalakovv This Rachel Dolezal documentary is powerful, sad, and interesting. I'm not going to judge this woman, she clearly has issues just like everyone does, but what is slightly different is that Rachel is a public figure, she did all of that brilliant work for the African-American community and she threw it all away because she lied. Near the end of the documentary we see that Rachel is in tears saying that she "Can't go back to being that Amish girl with those dresses and the long blonde hair" or something like that, but no one is asking her to, what people are upset about is that she lied to their faces, if she simply accepted that she is a white woman while still having the urban style of clothes and hair - no one would have a problem with that, the problem was that she said she was a black woman, and she is still saying that she identifies as black, what i think she means is that she identifies with African-American culture and that's okay, but you are not a black woman, accept that! It is sad because there are psychological reasons why Rachel doesn't like being a white woman, we see in this documentary that her parents were abusive and they adopted black kids which got Rachel interested in black history. We see in this documentary that Rachel is a very talented person with her hairdressing and her art drawings. Hopefully one day she will accept the fact that she is white, just because her biological parents were not good people - doesn't mean that you should reject your race. A very interesting documentary.

Mort Payne The concept interested me because I had heard much indirect explanation of this woman's claims of blackness but had never spent any time researching the real story. This documentary tells the real story, which I had heard in its entirety through all the second-hand reports: a white woman spent a large portion of her life pretending to be black, to the point of convincing herself that a choice to be so would make her actually so, and through her pretense actually rose to a position of social importance among civil rights groups. She does much complaining on camera about how much of a joke everyone treats her as, but even those who love her (friends and family) repeatedly iterate in veiled terms that it's all just an awkward ruse no one is benefiting from. I was especially interested in the story because of a (former) friend of mine from college who had pulled the same stunt, dressing like, acting like, and even going so far as claiming black heritage. The documentary showed me the same socially confused and insecure fraud as I had already seen in my one time friend. I can accept embracing a culture that isn't your own because its lifestyle and symbology appeal to your needs and tastes, and I personally find the entire concept of "cultural appropriation" to be an absurd hoax grounded in a fundamental misunderstanding of how culture works, but the idea of "bi-riacial" identity not only works as a laughably poor excuse for this woman's obvious black-faced life, but it belies the reality of why racism is scientifically, and more importantly morally, false.