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The left turned away in embarrassment.

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Just about everyone was aghast by her defiant assertion, Race is a construct.

And no one didnt think she was nucking futs.

But with careful editing, Brownson puts Dolezals past struggles in the present tense.

Those children were beaten.

(One, Isaiah, displays the scars on his back.)

Another was allegedly sexually assaulted by Dolezals white brother.

I felt I could bridge the divide, she says.

I dont know about you, but to me thats commendable.

(They appeared not even to have been posted.)

I dont understand the question.

Brownson talks to some of Dolezals fiercest critics, among them her former NAACP colleague Kitana Johnson.

Nothing they say about her strikes me as wrongheaded.

No, no one has much good to say about Rachel Dolezal.

Its the scale of the abuse especially from Twitter that comes to seem insane.

I mean, Henry Kissinger is kissed up to by presidents.

Paul Wolfowitz still holds an important job.

I know its Twitter but really?

You wish her dead?

But still Dolezal insists that shes black, mostly.

One other thing the movie shows: Dolezal is a gifted painter and collagist.

This white male disagrees with much of what she says but still feels for her.