The actress sounds off on the disgraced former NAACP chapter president as she recalls her 1986 comedy about a white man passing for black and and Spike Lee’s reaction to the film.
Back in 1986, when Rachel Dolezal was still a Caucasian living in Montana, Soul Man was having its own problems with being white and passing as black.
Thomas Howell who uses tanning pills, brown contact lenses and an Afro wig to pose as an African-American so he can receive a $54,000 affirmative-action scholarship to Harvard Law School. When the New World comedy screened at Westwood’s Village Theatre, UCLA’s Black Student Alliance protested over “false statements about the economic realities black students face at school.”
