No one can say Rachel Dolezal didn't understand the power of optics. The white ex-president of the NAACP Spokane chapter who's been pretending to be black for years pulled off her elaborate race ruse because she nailed the look - which, until now, belonged solely to mixed women who identified predominantly as African American. Let's start with Dolezal's hair, a curly explosion of what we now know to be over-processed ringlets to give the effect of the naturaly spiraled bob worn by Tracy Ellis Ross, Diana Ross' biracial daughter. Not only could Dolezal be a spokeswoman for Miss Jessie's Curly Pudding, she had the wherewithal to know it was OK to be blond with waist-length braid extensions and...
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