<p>If a writer can fake the whole life experience and mis-represented her race like the story below. How can colleges sort out the lies from the facts. I know for a fact that someone from my school got into Dartmouth because he claimed part Native American. Minority my butt. He is as white as a lily.
So should we all go get a tan and become part whatever?</p>
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<p>Bogus memoir sparks criticism of publishing industry</p>
<p>Observers call for more caution and fact checking. Others note a history of white artists appropriating the experiences of racial minorities.</p>
<p>By Scott Timberg and Josh Getlin, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
March 5, 2008 </p>
<p>The day after the publishing world reeled from revelations of yet another faked memoir, this one from a supposed mixed-race former drug-running foster child from South-Central Los Angeles who turned out to have been raised by her white biological family in Sherman Oaks, those involved with the book’s publication tried to explain how they fell for the deception.</p>
<p>Others debated whether the book world’s credulous ways are in dire need of an overhaul.</p>