I admit that other than John Howard Griffin I’ve never heard of a white person passing as black before, but I’m hard-pressed to know why I should care about Rachel Dolezal’s apparent attempt to do so.

There’s some human-interest value, of course, starting with “Why did her white parents feel a need to let the secret out?” From what I’ve heard on the news she’s been estranged from them for years, so what precipitated this? But really, other than as gossip, why should I care?