Rachel Dolezal’s Not Alone: More People Lying About Their Race
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Meg Butler
The “Voluntary Negro”
That’s what jazz player Milton “Mezz” Mezzrow called himself. He married a black woman, lived in Harlem and when he was arrested for marijuana possession in the 1940s, he told officers: “I’m colored, even if I don’t look it.”
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