I so feel your pain the author but common now..don’t you think this thing is being taken just too FREAKING far? For one..just like I have seen countless BLACK women/men bleach their skins to appear white..and white people do not seem to object? this woman can also be given the chance to feel BLACK whenever she chooses to whatever this being black means? Please ignore my ignorance or rather please pardon my lack of knowledge in this area as an African woman, but , if Black people have been struggling and fighting and challenging racial inequalities or injustices and for so long… and all other oppressive systems, be it ,…discrimination based on nationality, disability/developmental/intellectual..gender, sexual orientation and so forth..why is this HYPOCRISY still in existence while we ALL can start choosing to see the differences for what they really are! Backward ways of doing things..while we all can aspire to DO the right thing in every situation..and to be okay knowing this is what needs to be done with or without EXPECTATIONS in my own opinion…Thanks for sharing…