#darundown South Podcast

#DRDS 42: Rachel Dolezal, Charleston Shooting and More w/ UNC's Dr. Wizdom Powell

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So here is my second step in new direction for #DaRundown South. In this episode I wanted to look into the behavior of Rachel Dolezal as she took over the headlines on the nightly news, The Today Show, and lead to plenty of old people on Skype calls on TV. This is a white woman who basically rose up the ranks of black society, like an undercover cop infiltrating a caretel, to be the head of a NAACP chapter in Spokane, WA. I know it might be a little late but I take more time to digest what's going on. I had more questions than answers. I was more interested on how we got here in the first place. I wanted to know the role that having black adopted siblings played in her getting here. Why were parents so easily convinced to out her? Why was she so convincing playing black and how loyal can a hair stylist be? To get some answers I enlisted the help of Professor Wizdom Powell, PhD, She works at University of North Carolina's Gillings School of Global Public Health. Her research focuses primarily on investigatin