FREEDOM’S GATE: Juneteenth and Rachel Dolezal's trans-racial dilemma

Friday marks the 150th anniversary of the landing of Union soldiers at Galveston, Texas, with news that the war had ended and that the enslaved were now free. The annual celebration Juneteenth was launched to celebrate the end of slavery and the Civil War in the United States. This June 19 the nation and blacks may be confronting a new type of end of slavery, thanks to former Spokane, Wash., NAACP president, Rachel Dolezal. Dolezal’s decision to change her race from white to identifying herself as a black woman may actually help to bring an official end to racial hyphenation and ethnic designation in America. According to Dolezal’s interview on NBC's "Today" show Tuesday, she stated she clearly regards herself as black. If Dolezal is to be considered black, just where are the lines of discrimination drawn? Do affirmative action solutions or civil rights remedies even apply any longer when race itself can be as fluid as the application of coloring to a person’s skin? America may also now be free of racial designations.