The correct title for this should have been. The Portrait of a Narcissist. I felt so bad the whole show for the kids. This woman could not stop, she had to scream I am a victim. The only victims in this show were the children. This woman just would not stop even though it is destroying the children. A mother is supposed to protect her children not make their life a living hell. If only I had seen this show earlier, I could have let Franklin come live with me. That way he could escape the problems she kept causing. The whole show was her trying to be the victim and just her poor kids trying to survive. For the love of god stop destroying their lives, you narcissist.

I thought the film added a lot of nuance to the story we all read in the newspapers and saw on 온라인카지노추천, which was very one sided and made Rachel look like a huckster. The film was about 10 minutes too long for me, but still highly worth watching. It includes news footage you are likely to have already seen, including anchors questioning the difference between choosing your race and choosing your gender. I think this is a worthwhile comparison. I totally get it that black women deal with a society that is often hostile to them in a way that white women do not. Likewise, people who are born as women or raised as women experience a unique set of societal pressures, expectations, and hinderances that trans women do not experience. To me, being born a woman and living as a woman by choice are two different experiences. That doesn't mean that there is anything wrong with being a trans woman. Quite the opposite, I fully support any human being's right to live as the person they choose to be. I think our society would be a LOT better off if we could go beyond rigid stereotypes and expectations and the fear of change inherent in what Gen Z is creating as our new normal. Change is hard, but it's an essential part of growth. I think Rachel's experience is unique in that I don't know anyone else who has had such a striking set of early childhood experiences as her. I can see how she truly and deeply feels black. She is not flippantly choosing to identify as such to get one over on anyone else. I think we would have a better and more peaceful society if we didn't make such a big deal about this woman's choice to live as the woman she sees herself to be.

As I right this , this show is more than three years old . I have to say this was truly depressing. Rachel only admitted to the con when she had no other choice . I came away about 90% certain this poor woman has mental health issues. Also , her children seem like unwitting victims that she has no sympathy for.

More complex than meets the eye. There is no black and white to this story about Rachel and race. I like that. It makes me think. That is a fine outcome of a documentary. Recommended - if you have an open mind.

I was waiting for the entire movie for the topic (that Rachel kept referring to) that "race is a social construct." It was never discussed in any historical way or at all outside of Rachel saying she wanted this to be part of the conversation. The documentary only showed people opinions around her scandal and could've benefited by listening to the person that was the topic of the documentary and actually bringing this discussion to the table. It really would've made this have a greater emotional depth and substance plus it just felt like an obvious missing piece of the story.

It’s very illuminating to see a society that professes open-mindedness and progression show the same character traits that suppressed so many for so long.

I liked the documentary

An intriguing documentary that sheds some light on why Dolezal (now Diallo) is the way she is. She's a unique person, an extremely talented artist, and comes across less as deceptive and more as perhaps delusional or at least very self-convinced of her "trans-black" identity, having arrived at this identity to distance herself from her white, abusive parents, and to be a truly "black" mother for her eldest (and adopted) son Isiah (who, as it turns out, was first adopted by her parents, then re-adopted by his eldest sister, Rachel!). It's too bad that in the course of her quest to keep her "black" identity alive against the court of public opinion, her sons Isiah, Franklin (who is a biological son via different father), and newest son Langston (from a different father still) have been caught in the crossfire. Poor teenage Franklin wishes his Mom would just quit it and say what people want her to say, but he knows she can't do that. She just can't be who she's not, and who she feels is she is not is the teenage, white, suppressed, abused girl she once was. The director did a good job overall of trying to balance viewpoints, but this documentary can't help but come out on Dolezal's side, since the documentary crew have followed her so closely for 3 years. Still, I'm glad I watched it - it was very revealing and I learned a lot - not so much of race in America, but the unique and ever evolving unicorn that is Rachel Doleal, or Ncheki Amare Diallo, as she is now.

First, people can dress and be whoever they want. However, they can't pretend to be something and force others to go along with it. There is a double standard with so many. Transgenders and others who suffer from gender dysphoria are celebrated, even get the woman of the year (Bruce Jenner, even though he is a man), but Rachel is shunned by everyone. The movie definitely was more than sympathetic to her and tried to normalize transracial. Not surprising from Netflix. The documentary was a bit disjointed. It took about 45 minutes to get some basic facts like she was brought up with several adopted black kids, that she was married to a black man, instead of her kids being adopted. To me, that wasn't and shouldn't have been a plot point or a reveal. It should have come in the beginning so you are not confused throughout. It took an hour to figure out one of her kids was adopted. You don't become another gender or ace just because you feel like it. You can dress like it, but there are so many implications for identifying as another gender or race and not being honest with yourself and others about your true being is problematic. She even at one point tries to argue why we are obsessed with DIFFERENT races (saying just one human race), but then insist she is black (a different race). a total contradiction. People with race/gender identity issues should deal with them psychologically because that is what they are. If you can't find some way to live with who you are born as, find a way to live the way you want to be, but don't get to have others to accept you if they don't want to. You shouldn't be the victim of violence because of it, but if you choose to live a certain way, there will be consequences. It's part of life. The film presents the opposing views as an onslaught of intolerant positions. The most frustrating thing was that all the legitimate questions raised by callers, audience members, radio and tv hosts etc, were never answered. The movie was too long and was too repetitive. I learned there is a lot of shame that is the basis for dysphoria. I think most people at one point have questioned their own identity, but it is coming to terms of who you are that is freeing, not rejecting it. She is not a bad person. She means well. She is just not honest and she is delusional and it obviously affected others that didn't want to be a part of it. She is, however, an amazing painter.

Terrific doc about Rachel Dolezal who lived for over 5 years as a "black" leader in her community though she was genetically, in fact, white. The film maker builds her story carefully and compellingly, examining the issues of race that immerse Dolezal and the cost of her role playing on her family and community. Just when you think you've got Dolezal nailed, though, the film sends you into a tailspin.

The film really made me think about a number of topics. cultural appropriation, mental illness, family, and personal integrity. it made me appreciate the situation a lot deeper than before, so I must rate the film high. For me, if someone is completely crazy, fraudulent, or pathological, I will pick up on it and be annoyed by it at some point during a two hour movie. Yet, despite the number of negatives the director placed in front of me to criticize, I couldn't help but see this person as anyone other than someone who has a legitimate love for herself and for the black community, a community she has a right to love, having grown up in it to an extent. I never got the sense that she was a desperate attention seeker or completely crazy... her motivations seem loving. Now, it's easy to argue that publically identifying as black is where she crosses the line, and I can probably sign on to that. But being white myself, I am not really an authority on how that should be interpreted by a community that I'm not allied with. And therein lies more food for thought...

there are so many things wrong with this movie I really feel that the Bronson woman tried her best to make a fool of Miss dolezal. however after watching this movie twice, there's something I sticks out in my mind really bad. And that is her son Franklin, he was very disrespectful towards his mother he didn't act his age for teenager he seem like a real young little boy like maybe he was 8 or 10 years old he was whining a lot, and then towards the end he really went off on the cameras talking smack about his mom. And I'm sorry, but that's your mom the fact that she would allow her son to talk like that about her is beyond me I mean she supposed to be black. her sister and her other son seemed as though they might just be using her to get out of a bad situation which seems unfair because she is helping them a lot and they seem very ungrateful. anyway it was wrong for her to direct a movie and expose all of that about anyone I'm sure no one wants to see all of their family issues played out like that. but back to Franklin he should have known better than to disrespect his mom like that on a national platform in fact a worldwide platform he deserves a smack in his mouth. If anything I feel more compassion towards Miss dolezal. but the movie was awful all together

The Rachel Divide was an enthralling documentary that managed to show the struggles and hardships of a person who I was determined to dislike. In the end I felt sympathy for Rachel. I don't agree with what she's doing, but I don't think she is trying to mislead or lie to anyone. I think she needs help, but that she does really see her life that way.

Great execution along with focus that lets you see the vulnerable, understandable side of a controversial and complex woman still makes it difficult not to wonder why the documentary exists.

I understand Rachel's choice to have wanted to separate her personal life from the public life and hide it as much as she could. But if she showed it more, maybe the public wouldn't have had been as outrageously judgmental as it had been towards her. Because what I learned from watching this documentary is that she wasn't motivated by career related benefits in making the "choices" she made, She was motivated by love. It started with her love for her siblings, and then her sons and then the whole black community. I feel that she is terribly misunderstood. And I feel very sorry for her. Nietzche said once, "LOVE is beyond good and evil." What I like the most about her is that she doesn't victimize herself. She could easily scream, "because people thought I was black - I also received hate crime!," "my adopted brother is the reason why I made the decision I made!' but she doesn't. For me, it was devastating to watch this documentary film. Rachel, if you are reading this.. you have my support.

Interesting prospective on Rachel's life. DIrector laura Brownson does a good job of allowing the viewer to make their own decision on rachel's views.

this movie was just a propaganda hatchet film to gain notoriety it was a malicious attack on Ms. Dolezal and her family

Hard to capture the level of mental illness of this woman but it's very clear she's passionate about black culture.