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NAACP Chapter President Who Faked Being Black Stepping Down but not Admitting Lies

NAACP Chapter President Who Pretended to be Black Stepping Down but not Admitting Lies

Jennifer Glen | June 15 2015

In an utterly bizarre story, the white Spokane NAACP president who pretended to be black is stepping down.  Rachel Dolezal was living as a black woman fighting the struggle of racial inequality until her parents revealed that she was living a lie.  While she had always identified with the black community, the freckly blond was anything but.  According to TheBlaze.com:

She has adopted black siblings, went to school in Mississippi and was part of a predominantly black community, her parents said. She married and in 2004 divorced a black man — and that’s when her parents say her self-identification shifted.
The Dolezals told KREM that their daughter began saying she was partially black and the daughter of biracial parents. Her physical appearance began changing as well, her parents said, but they don’t know what she did to make that happen.

The family had a falling out and are no longer on speaking terms.  Rachel expressed outrage at her parents, telling local news KREM, “I don’t give two ***** what you guys think. You’re so far done and out of my life.”

Dolezal — who taught Africana studies at Eastern Washington University last fall — said she’s more interested in discussing her ethnicity with blacks than with whites.
“It’s more important to me to clarify that to the black community, and with my executive board, than it really is for me to explain it to a community that I quite frankly don’t think understands the definitions of race and ethnicity,” she said.
“If I was asked,” Dolezal responded, “I would definitely say that, ‘Yes, I do consider myself to be black.’”

Eastern Washington University lists Dolezal as a “quarterly professor”:

Her scholarly research focuses on the intersection of race, gender and class in the contemporary Diaspora with a specific emphasis on Black women in visual culture.
Her efforts were met with opposition by North Idaho white supremacy groups, including the Ku Klux Klan, the Neo Nazis and the Aryan Nations, and at least eight documented hate crimes targeted Doležal and her children during her residency in North Idaho.
Her other experiences include work in a community law office as a legal secretary, African dance, culinary arts, ethnic hair styling, modeling, managing a political campaign, and mothering two sons.

She also claims to be the victim of several racial injustices and threats that were investigated by the Spokane Police Department.  Some have been suspicious in terms of origin, possibly suggesting but not concluding that, in light of her racial deceptions, she may have falsified those as well.  More can be read on that at KREM.com.
For an additional view on Dolezal’s scheme and lies, she was interviewed in 2014 about her experiences as a woman who is black.  She talks about living a “burden” on a daily basis based on physical appearance.  She even states that living in an all-black community, that there is “more freedom to be you.”  It would be hard to make this stuff up.
The question is, where will the black community fall on this?  Will they be divided between feelings of deception or appreciation for a woman’s care to embrace their culture and struggles?