After hearing the case of Rachel Dolezal, I could not help but to feel confused. Personally, I do not understand why she received as much hate that she did. Not only did the world despise and slander her, but she also lost her job and everything she had worked her whole life for. People accused her of harming the black community by appropriating black culture for her own amusement, but it seems to me that she really identified as a black woman her whole life every day. She herself had said that she never intended on becoming white. The part I am most confused about is why people believed the best way to advocate for blacks was to remove her from her positions in the BlackLivesMatter movement and the NAACP. She was working hard on the behalf of blacks, so how does removing her benefit the community she is working for? Even in the case that what she did really was wrong, she never intended to hurt anyone and was a woman who worked hard and never wanted to become a celebrity. Thus, in this sense, I feel extremely conflicted when I think of Rachel Dolezal.