Without meaning to trivialise the Rachel Dolezal case (US civil rights activist quits role as ethnicity row continues, 16 June), I am tempted to draw comparisons with a famous comedic movie of the early 1990s, Mrs Doubtfire. The late Robin Williams plays a rascally estranged dad who dons a disguise as an elderly Irish nanny to gain some access to his children. In living this impersonation, he becomes a better person and a better father to his children than he otherwise might have been.
Rachel Dolezal’s racial impersonation is mystifying. But deceptive though she was, her record as a civil rights activist and her commitment to making the world a fairer, more equal place cannot be faulted. Surely this is a shining example of a case in which the end, to some extent, justifies the means, no?
Nate Evuarherhe Jr
Hackbridge, Surrey
