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I think she's doing what she perceives serves her own interests, and there's nothing wrong with that as long as she doesn't cross the line into falsehoods and fabrications. In dealing with someone like Kim, one can only rely on her as to facts she observed. Her opinions and perceptions are not trustworthy inasmuch as they are motivated by extreme self-interest to present a good image, so that aspect of her presentation must always be kept separate from her statements of facts and observations.

I don't think Kim considers herself completely black since she is half Asian, something she has pointed out a couple times, so while she would bend to pressure from Durham blacks who support Mangum, I doubt that she embraces any solidarity or much identity with them. Brushing the Durham yoke of Liefong and black racists off her shoulders, she is free to tell the truth. If singing like a bird advances her own agenda, no harm no foul - as long as she sticks to the truth.