Rachel Dolezal lies about being black. Leads NAACP chapter. Teaches Africana class.

[Aristotle]

The desire to revel in schadenfreude and destroy relatively private people (there have been so many examples of this in the last few years) and how this impacts on society.

This trend disturbs me enormously. People take far too much glee in seeing other people and/or their careers destroyed. Whether it is someone famous like Brian Williams of NBC, or an "everyday citizen" like Rachel Dolezal, I think this is a huge problem. Our general lack of empathy for our fellow man is a gigantic problem that seems to be steadily worsening.

The arguments made by people who are genuinely horrified at the idea that appropriating black culture to gain advantage might be 'A Thing'.

Ideas about relative privilege and whether using such terms is actually useful.

Ideas about identity politics and the comparisons between genuinely and honestly identifying as a different gender or race and what this means.

Trying to understand social versus biological constructs of race and gender and how such ideas are used on both sides of the fence.

I think these are all fascinating questions that this topic has shown some additional light upon.