Rachel Dolezal: Black Or White?

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Rachel Dolezal: Black Or White?

UPDATE: Rachel Dolezal has resigned as president of the Spokane, WA NAACP chapter.

Eastern Washington civil rights leader Rachel Dolezal has been fighting the good fight as a black woman for several years. The only problem is, the president of the Spokane NAACP is not a black woman at all — she’s really white!

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For more than 10 years, Rachel Dolezal has been inexplicably passing herself off as a black woman.  She even claimed a black man as her natural father, voluntarily showing photos of the man she called “dad.” However, Dolezal’s real father apparently had enough of the charade and went public with news that he and her mother are both caucasian.

“She’s our birth daughter and we’re both of European descent,” Larry Dolezal, said last week. “Our daughter’s heritage is Czech, Swedish, and German.”

Ruthanne and Larry Dolezal, who live in Troy, MT, added that Rachel has been deceiving people for years and they want the public to know the truth.  “We’re puzzled and it’s very sad.”

Rachel Dolezal has been president of the Spokane, Washington, chapter of the NAACP since January. She also serves as chair of the city’s police oversight commission and is an adjunct professor of Africana studies at Eastern Washington University.

According to her staff biography, Dolezal received a master’s degree from the historically black Howard University in Washington, D.C. “Her passion for civil rights is influenced by her years in Mississippi, where she advocated for equal rights and participated in community development,” the bio states.  It also claims that Dolezal has been the victim of at least 8 “documented hate crimes.”  To date, her claims of being a victim have never been proven and no suspect has ever been identified.

So, why exactly would Rachel Dolezal pretend to be African-American when she is not? According to her real and very white father, Larry Dolezal says he can not fully explain why his daughter would pose as a black woman.

“She has over the past 20 years assimilated herself into the African-American community through her various advocacy and social justice work, and so that may be part of the answer,” Dolezal said. He added that Rachel cut off all communication with him and her mother, and “doesn’t want us visible in the Spokane area in her circle because we’re Caucasian.”

When directly confronted by the media to come clean about her caucasian past, Rachel Dolezal pretended not to understand the claims, then ran away.  Having received a full scholarship to Howard University as an African-American woman (which is fraud ), could be at least partly why she’s running for cover.

Dolezal was set to address her ethnicity questions at a NAACP chapter meeting on Monday.  However she canceled the meeting late Sunday night, citing the need “to continue discussion with regional and national NAACP leaders.” Shortly thereafter, Lawrence Burnley, head of the Spokane chapter’s executive committee, challenged Dolezal’s right to arbitrarily cancel the meeting.

“I don’t see any language in the by-laws that empowers you, or any one member, to arbitrarily cancel/postpone tomorrow’s meeting,” Burnley wrote in an email to Dolezal and other NAACP members on Sunday.

In light of these developments, several NAACP members are planning a demonstration Monday night calling for Dolezal to step down.

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