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*“The Rachel Divide” is an in-depth look at the former leader of the NAACP’s Spokane branch, who made international headlines when it was revealed that she bamboozled black folks into believing she had rich black ancestry.
Rachel Dolezal, the white woman who identifies as “trans-racial,” is the focus of a new documentary premiering next month on Netflix.
In the first trailer for “The Rachel Divide,” Dolezal has a talk with her teenage son, Franklin.
“I really do not want to focus on this for the rest of my life,” a frustrated Franklin tells Dolezal, who replies that she feels the same way. “Well, why don’t you just let it go away?” he wonders.
“When something gets destroyed you can’t just pretend it didn’t happen, you have to rebuild it,” Dolezal replies.
But Franklin is not convinced that being the subject of a documentary is a good idea. “This is going to affect more than just your life,” he reminds Dolezal.
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In a solo interview, Franklin explains that the doc could very well backfire, “like everything else has backfired.”
“I resent some of her choices and some of the words she’s spoken in interviews,” he admits.
Another emotional moment comes when Rachel cries at the thought of opening her family up to even more scrutiny, and fears that she’ll be misportrayed in the documentary.
“It’s hard and I’m trying to be the gatekeeper… and then you’re just like handing it over to somebody who can just be a wrecking ball.”
“The Rachel Divide” is directed by Laura Brownson, who explained her motivations for telling Dolezal’s story in an interview with Vulture.
“In making the film, I came to a deeper understanding of the raw nerve that Rachel hits in our society, but I also learned that her motivations to identify as she does are far more complicated than most realize,” she said. “Regardless of how people feel about Rachel, I hope the film will challenge audiences to think more deeply about race and identity in America.”
Two years ago, Dolezal’s parents put her on blast for pretending to be a black woman. The controversy cost Rachel her position as branch president of the NAACP chapter in Spokane, Wash. In 2017, she told The Guardian that she was broke and nearly homeless.
“The Rachel Divide” will premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival ahead of its Netflix debut on April 27.
Scroll up to check out the trailer above.
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