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    NAACP leader Rachel Dolezal

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    June 12, 2015 Jason Silverstein




    An NAACP leader and prominent civil rights activist in Washington state has been pretending to be black for years, her parents admitted local media Thursday.

    Rachel Dolezal, who heads Spokane’s NAACP chapter and teaches Africana studies at Eastern Washington University, refused to directly answers any questions about her alleged racial ruse after it was exposed.

    A KXLY reporter bluntly asked her, “Are you African American?”

    After a stunned pause, she replied: "“I don’t understand the question."

    The question of her race "is not as easy as it seems," Dolezal told the Spokane Spokesman-Review. "We're all from the African continent".

    Dolezal’s parents, who are both white, provided a birth certificate and childhood pictures of their daughter to the Coeur d’Alene Press to back up their claims she has been grossly misrepresenting herself.

    The birth certificate confirmed she was born to the white couple, and the pictures show Dolezal as a pasty, blonde child — a complete contrast the darker skin and curly brown hair she has now.



    “It is very disturbing that she has become so dishonest,” Dolezal’s mother, Ruthanne Dolezal, told the Idaho newspaper.

    Her parents also alleged a much wider web of warped lies Dolezal spun about her background. A black man who Dolezal has publicly claimed to be her son is in fact her adopted brother, they said — a fact Dolezal confirmed to the paper.

    Dolezal also lied about growing up in a teepee, hunting for her own food with bows and arrows, being abused by a stepfather and once living in South Africa, her parents said.

    Some of her family members did live in South Africa for four years, but “Rachel did not even ever visit us there,” her mom said.

    Dolezal initially maintained that she is African-American, telling the Coeur d'Alene Press: "They can DNA test me if they want to."

    Her parents told the Seattle Times Thursday they are estranged from their daughter and have no idea why she lied.

    Dolezal was elected as the president of the NAACP Spokane chapter last November and took the post at the beginning of this year, according to her Facebook page.

    She also chairs the city’s newly created police oversight commission.

    She did not return a Daily News request for comment.

    Dolezal is an adjunct professor at Eastern Washington University’s Africana Education program. Her bio on the school’s site says she is a widely popular speaker and visual artist whose “efforts were met with opposition by North Idaho white supremacy groups, 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.”

    Dolezal's Facebook page is filled with posts about civil rights marches, alleged instances of racism against her and supposed details about her childhood.

    In one November 2013 post, she offered tips for black viewers to watch the period drama "12 Years a Slave," which she called "not the best film to take a white partner on a first date to."

    She advised: "sit in the top, back row so that during the movie people aren't constantly looking at you to monitor the 'Black response' to the film."

    The same day, she wrote another post about a slave character in the film, Patsey, played by Lupita Nyong'o.

    "When Patsy [sic] makes the dolls with the braided arms in '12 Years,' it brought back memories of when I was a little girl and made the same husk dolls in the garden, only I braided their hair instead of the arms...," Dolezal wrote.

    The Spokane chapter has not commented on the controversy. A Tuesday post on its Facebook page said Dolezal was interviewed by Al Jazeera about "police accountability in Spokane," with the clip to be broadcast "in several days."

    Another post on the page, from January, shows Dolezal standing with a black man who is identified as her "father."

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    Race of Rachel Dolezal, head of Spokane NAACP, comes under question
    By Ben Brumfield and Greg Botelho, CNN
    Updated 5:42 PM ET, Fri June 12, 2015


    Video http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/12/us/was...ezal-identity/


    (CNN)—The race of one of the most prominent faces in Spokane, Washington's black community is under question after her estranged mother claimed she is white but is "being dishonest and deceptive with her identity."

    Rachel Dolezal, 37, is the head of the local chapter of the NAACP and has identified herself as at least partly African-American. But her Montana birth certificate says she was born to two parents who say they are Caucasian. The parents shared that document and old photos with CNN.

    "We are her birth parents," Lawrence Dolezal told CNN on Friday. "We do not understand why she feels it's necessary to misrepresent her ethnicity."

    CNN tried to reach Rachel Dolezal for comment by emailing and calling her, but was unsuccessful. The Spokane Spokesman-Review. newspaper reported, though, that she has framed the controversy surrounding her racial identity in the context of litigation over guardianship of her adopted brother.

    According to court documents obtained by CNN, Rachel Dolezal's adopted brother, who is black, sought emancipation from Ruthanne and Lawrence Dolezal in 2010. The adopted brother, now 21, said the Dolezals used "physical forms of punishment" and had sent his brother and sister away to group homes because they didn't cooperate with the couple's religion and rules.

    The adopted brother wanted to live with Rachel Dolezal "in a multiracial household where black culture is celebrated and I have a connection to the black community," the court papers said. The papers did not specify Rachel Dolezal's race.




    A fmily photo shows Dolezal's Wedding in Jackson MS, May 21, 2000. Her family is racially mixed; the photo shows Rachel and her husband Kevin standing between her parents; with her grandparents to the right, and her four adopted sisters and brothers on the front row.

    The petition for emancipation was dropped. In a separate legal action in 2010, the court appointed Rachel Dolezal to be the adopted brother's guardian with the consent of Ruthanne and Lawrence Dolezal.

    On Friday, the Dolezals told CNN they didn't want to comment on a possible "legal dispute" their daughter or the NAACP had mentioned.

    One organization that appears to be standing behind her is the NAACP. The group, historically one of the most prominent in supporting causes important to the African-American community, said Friday that Dolezal is "enduring a legal issue with her family" and that "we respect her privacy in this matter."

    "One's racial identity is not a qualifying criteria or disqualifying standard for NAACP leadership," the group said. "The NAACP Alaska-Oregon-Washington State Conference stands behind Ms. Dolezal's advocacy record."

    Challenged about her race

    Dolezal represented herself as African-American -- along with several other ethnicities, including white and Native American -- in an application for a Spokane police ombudsman commission.

    And she has presented the public with a different family photograph posted to the local NAACP chapter's Facebook page. When she announced her father was coming to town for a visit, she showed herself standing next to an older African-American man.

    Dolezal's public racial identity came under scrutiny on Thursday, when a reporter from CNN affiliate KXLY held up that photo asked her if it showed her dad. She replied that it did.

    Then came a follow-up question: "Are you African-American?"

    "I don't understand the question of -- I did tell you that, yes, that's my dad. And he was unable to come in January," Dolezal responded. "Are your parents -- are they white?" came the next query.

    Dolezal walked away from the microphone, leaving her purse and keys, and took refuge in a nearby clothing boutique.

    Expert, advocate on black community

    Dolezal has built a wide-ranging career as an expert on and advocate for the black community.

    She is not just president of her local NAACP chapter; she is also an academic expert on African-American culture and teaches many related classes at Eastern Washington University.

    She represents the black community publicly and vocally, including as a spokeswoman on race-influenced police violence. On Tuesday she spoke to Al Jazeera on the topic. And Dolezal has appeared alongside Baltimore City State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby, who has filed charges against police officers in the death of Freddie Gray, a young black man.

    The mayor of Spokane appointed Dolezal chairwoman of a police oversight committee to keep an eye on fairness in police work.

    After the allegations of faked racial identity surfaced, Mayor David Condon and City Council President Ben Stuckart said they take "very seriously the concerns raised regarding the chair of the independent citizen police ombudsman commission."

    The city is checking to see if she has violated any policies.

    Still, what Dolezal has done is more important than what race she is to the NAACP, regional President Gerald Hankerson said. He called the NAACP a civil rights organization first that includes "leaders from all different ethnicities," adding that it "doesn't do a genealogy search on what a person's ethnicity is when they" take a top position.

    As to Dolezal specifically, Hankerson said, "We represent all civil rights issues, regardless of a person's ethnicity. And the quality of the work that she has done to elevate the issues of civil rights in that region is what we applaud."


    Dolezal: Explanation 'not as easy as it seems'


    Rachel Dolezal grew up in what her parents called a diverse family, with friends from various ethnicities and four adopted siblings who were black. She was "always interested in ethnicity and diversity" growing up, her Ruthanne Dolezal said.

    Dolezal attended college in Mississippi, then went on to Howard University on scholarship -- not having identified herself black then on her application, because there was no such option, though people there may have assumed as much "because her portfolio of art was all African-American portraiture," her mother said.

    It wasn't until around 2007, her parents said, that Dolezal began identifying herself more with the African-American community, according to her mother.

    Her parents say Rachel Dolezal "has chosen to distance herself from the family."

    "She has not explained to us why she is doing what she is doing and being dishonest ... with her identity," Ruthanne Dolezal said.

    Rachel Dolezal wouldn't answer the Spokesman-Review's questions about her racial heritage directly and said she wanted to talk to local NAACP leadership first. "I feel like I owe my executive committee a conversation," she said.

    "That question is not as easy as it seems," Dolezal told the Spokesman-Review. "There's a lot of complexities ... and I don't know that everyone would understand that."

    The NAACP, it seems, wasn't about to disqualify her if she's indeed white.

    "In every corner of this country," the group said, "the NAACP remains committed to securing political, educational and economic justice for all people. And we encourage Americans of all stripes to become members and serve as leaders in our organization."

    Story stirs vigorous debate on social media


    The story riled up many on social media, with Dolezal's name and the term "transracial" becoming top trending hashtags on Twitter.

    Some users raised the idea of racial passing, in which a person of one race acts as if they belong to another. Others floated the notion that people could cross over lines of racial identity as they do with sexual identity.

    "Hmm interesting article about #racheldolezal. If she identifies as black, can she be transracial?" one user asked. Other users compared Dolezal with Caitlyn Jenner, formerly known as Bruce Jenner, often in a derogatory manner.

    But many users, particularly African-Americans, bemoaned that switching race doesn't work like switching gender, noting that black people can't pretend to be white to avoid discrimination.

    "My prob w/ #Transracial: Black folk cant decide to be white when the cops raid their pool party. But a white woman can be NAACP president," wrote hip-hop artist Lizzo.

    "It's not just her appropriation. It's that she claimed an oppression that wasn't hers," wrote user Charles Clymer.

    Yet Hankerson -- the top NAACP official for Washington state as well as Oregon and Alaska -- questioned how much her race should really matter and whether this debate was worth having.

    "It's unfortunate that this has become a trending conversation," he said, "when there's a lot more important things that are going on in America that we should be better addressing."

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    If Bruce Jenner can decide he’s a woman, what’s so crazy about this woman’s BIZARRE claim?

    Written by Michele Hickford, Editor-in-Chief on June 12, 2015

    As you all must know by now (unless you have been living in your refrigerator for the past two weeks), Olympic hero Bruce Jenner has decided to live his life as a woman named Caitlyn. He identifies himself as a woman. Feels better as a woman. And wants the world to accept him as a woman (even though we all know he was born with outside plumbing). People everywhere are applauding his bravery and courage.

    So why is Rachel Dolezal getting so much flak?






    Dolezal obtained a masters in fine arts from Howard University, a historically black college in Washington, D.C. She later served as the president of her local NAACP chapter in Spokane, Washington.

    As the Daily Beast reports, according to her now-private Facebook page, the 37-year-old Dolezal started working as a freelance hair artist in 1998, specializing in “black hair designs, weave and extensions for all hair types, braids!”

    For the last 10 years at least, Dolezal has been living as a black woman.

    Except she’s actually white. She was born that way.

    Dolezal’s estranged parents – both of whom are white – provided a birth certificate and confirmed that her family ancestry is largely German and Czech, with some Native American roots.

    The Daily Beast says, Dolezal’s estranged parents spoke out for the first time Thursday. Photos provided by the parents show a light, blond-haired girl, whose straight hair is a far cry from the “natural” curls Delozal recently touted on Facebook.

    Well, the question I must ask is, if Bruce Jenner can decide he wants to be a female, and we all must accept it, why can’t Rachel Dolezal decide she wants to be black?

    If that’s how she “self-identifies” and feels that’s what’s in her soul, who are we to say that’s crazy?

    So what if her DNA shows no evidence of African ancestry. Bruce Jenner’s DNA shows no evidence of being a woman either. That hasn’t stopped HIM.

    People will say “she doesn’t look black.” Isn’t that racist? How are black people supposed to look? They come in all shades. She doesn’t SOUND black. That’s even MORE racist.

    If we’re supposed to accept and embrace Bruce Jenner as a woman, I think it’s an incredible double-standard not to accept and embrace Rachel Dolezal as a black woman.

    Am I wrong here?

    UPDATE: The NAACP stands by Ms. Dolezal (she’s going through a bit of legal trouble at the moment)



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    I have no problem with her 'deciding' she wanted to be black, Michael Jackson wanted to be white. What I laugh about is that she lied and not little lies, big ones. Why were the lies needed? There are many whites that sympathesize, empathesize with other races but they do it as caucasians. Ohhhh, she probably wanted the full black experience, I'll bet. Used to tell my kids...'there's no lie that won't eventually be found out". All she did was embarass herself and make people question her motives and actions. I think it's funnier than hell, myself. Right up there with Elizabeth Warren's claim to being an American Indian.

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    We no longer tell children they are lying. They're telling "untruths." If they don't obey a teacher, it is an "unexpected" action??!? Some of the kids in the Texas Pool Incident justified mouthing off to the police because they had "been called names"??!? What kind of responsible citizens are we raising??!?
    ((I guess if famous people and politicians can re-invent themselves to be whatever they want, the rest of us should be able to do so, too!))

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    This is the bigger joke played out against American's who have donated millions of dollars to this organization:

    "The NAACP issued a statement Friday in support of a local NAACP leader in Washington state who has been accused by her family of misrepresenting herself as black.

    The civil rights group rushed to the defense of Rachel Dolezal, the head of the NAACP Spokane chapter, after the woman’s parents told a newspaper Thursday her ancestry was white with some “faint traces” of Native American heritage.

    ~~~ An organization that supports the lies presented by this woman can not be assumed to honestly represent the causes it purports to support. It truly is.... all about the money.

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    It is not the fact that is identifies herself as being black.....IT IS THE FACT THAT SHE LIED!!!!!
    She touted a picture showing her standing with a elderly black gentleman saying he was her father..
    Lied that her Black stepbrother was her son....
    and when the truth comes out it will reveal that she sent herself threatening letters...
    I don't care if she proclaimed she is purple .... Would it not have be the right thing to do by just telling those around her... Although Caucasian, I identify with those who are of African descent and feel that it is my duty and right to fight for their rights?????
    Makes one wonder what else she has lied about ........ Just saying...

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    Bruce might feeel like he is a woman nut biologically he is a man. This woman might feel like a black woman, but she is a white woman. I am not against anyone wanting to be something they are not. If you are more peace with yourself .. go, God bless you. My Lexus wishes it was a Bentley (even I wish it was a Bentley) but even if i put Bentley emblems on the car it will still be a Lexus.

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    She colors and treats her hair to achieve an "ethnic look"; she wears make up to change her complextion. She claims that her adopted brother is her birth son. She hired a elder black man to be introduced as and pose for photos stating that he is her father. She claims to have been molested by a "step father" - but her parents have never been seperated. She claims to have been born in a teepee and hunt for food with bow and arrow ~ OR ~ growing up in South Africa depending on the version of her story.

    This is pathological lying... not just "mistaken" or "misremembered"

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    Okay - I have made a decision - I am a Pink and purple fluffy unicorn.. I wasn't born as a unicorn, but I now identify as one and demand that everyone refer to me as one. If anyone fails to call me a pink and purple fluffy unicorn ~ I will claim you are a bigot. That is all, thanks.
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    [b‘Trans-racial’? ‘Black’ NAACP activist #RachelDolezal earns comparisons to a certain US senator[/b]
    Posted at 9:02 am on June 12, 2015 by Twitchy


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    How Did White Rachel Dolezal Convince Everyone She Was Black?

    Social media details how she crafted a fake history of growing up as a black girl, which she used to get a position in the NAACP.

    Rachel Dolezal has been living as a black woman for the past ten years—even becoming president of her local NAACP chapter—until her parents revealed that she is in fact white.

    How did she trick so many people?

    Born to white parents in Montana, Dolezal has reportedly long been fascinated with black culture. Her family’s ancestry, however, is largely German and Czech, her parents say. (Ruthanne and Larry Dolezal provided a birth certificate listing them as Rachel Dolezal's parents.)

    The Dolezal family adopted four black children, and they say Dolezal immersed herself in the black community at Belhaven University in Mississippi. Dolezal later married a black man, with whom she had one child. (She said he abused her and their young son, leading to their divorce.) In 2002, Dolezal obtained a master of fine arts degree from Howard University, a historically black college in Washington, D.C.

    Two years later, Ruthanne Dolezal says her daughter started claiming a biracial identity.

    Dolezal’s lies might have stayed secret had she not attracted attention for reporting an alleged hate crime against herself, which police say they have no proof happened.

    Dolezal said she received an envelope with lynching photos and other threats in February, at a Spokane, Washington, P.O. box. Authorities found the envelope had no signs of being sent through the mail, and postal employees said it likely wound up in her hands “if it was placed there by someone with a key to that box or a USPS employee." A local news report found that Dolezal had made a handful of other such reports.

    On Friday, a Spokane Police spokeswoman said the department, the FBI, and the post office have suspended their investigations into Dolezal’s hate-crime reports. The spokeswoman added that no one has filed a complaint against Dolezal, and that authorities have not questioned her.


    In a television interview, Dolezal was asked point blank whether she is African-American after she identified a black man as her father.

    “I don’t understand the question,” she replied before rushing away from the interview. She was visibly flustered, so much so that she left her purse on the sidewalk.

    Dolezal’s estranged parents spoke out for the first time Thursday. Photos provided by the parents show a light-skinned, blond-haired girl, whose straight hair is a far cry from the “natural” curls Delozal recently touted on Facebook. Her father said that Dolezal applied to Howard with a portfolio of black portraits and the school "took her for a black woman." She got a full scholarship.


    In interviews with the Washington Post, Dolezal's adopted brothers confirmed that she is white. Ezra, who identifies as "25 percent black," said Dolezal's charade could be construed as "highly racist." He added that Izaiah, a 21-year-old man Dolezal refers to as her son on social media, is actually her adopted brother. Ezra and another brother, Zach, don't keep in contact with Dolezal because they allege she turned Izaiah against their parents, and claimed he was abused.

    "She turned Izaiah kind of racist. Told Izaiah all this stuff about white people, made him really racist toward white people," Ezra said.



    After the release of 12 Years a Slave, she posted a doll made of corn husks on Facebook.



    “When Patsy makes the dolls with braided arms in ‘12 Years,’ it brought back memories of when I was a little girl and made the same husk dolls in the garden, only I braided their hair instead of their arms….” Dolezal wrote.

    Dolezal’s racial fabrications weren’t limited to social media. Dolezal—a professor of Afrikana Studies at Eastern Washington University—leveraged her fake blackness to the presidency of the Spokane chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

    On her LinkedIn profile, Dolezal says she teaches courses on Black Studies, African American Culture, and African History, in addition to a variety of art courses. The website lists her as a "quarterly professor." In a somewhat bizarre twist, her biography on the webpage says she "has begun pre-medical studies, working toward an MD and a residency in trauma surgery."


    Nancy Hines, communications director for Whitworth University told the Daily Beast that Dolezal only taught two courses at the university, both in the evening continuing study program for adults. The first of those courses was in 2011, and the second in 2014. On her LinkedIn page, Dolezal says she was an adjunct instructor at the university from 2011 until January 2015.

    Dolezal, whose only graduate degree is an MFA, claims to have taught courses on race and ethnicity. Hines declined to comment on educational requirements for faculty or staff.

    "Well, you can ask the person that," Hines replied when asked what would qualify someone with an MFA degree to teach on race and ethnicity.


    Dolezal also said she was black on an application form to become chairwoman of Spokane’s Office of the Police Ombudsman. City officials say they are investigating whether she lied on the form.

    Dolezal also claimed Native American ancestry.



    In that same newspaper profile, Dolezal told the author she was born in a “Montana tepee,” and that “Jesus Christ” was listed as the witness on her birth certificate. She claimed that her family lived off the land in rural Montana, hunting for food with “bows and arrows.”



    Dolezal also added that she doesn’t like to talk about her childhood—her parents, Dolezal said, were abusive, and punished kids “by skin complexion.” She claimed the kids were hit with a baboon whip picked up when they lived in South Africa. (They allegedly moved to Cape Town in 1994, when her father took a job there). “They were pretty similar to what was used as whips during slavery.”

    In another interview, she said her dad’s campaign signs were graffittied—with the word “n-gger.”

    In a NAACP Facebook post from January, Dolezal proudly revealed a picture of herself with a black man she claims is her father. He would be attending a ribbon-cutting ceremony at NAACP, the post reads, and would speak at their “MLK tribute membership meeting.”



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    Dolezal applied to Howard with a portfolio of black portraits and the school "took her for a black woman."

    She got a full scholarship.

    Rachel Dolezal Is Nothing Like Caitlyn Jenner — And Here's Why

    Michelle Garcia's avatar image By Michelle Garcia June 12, 2015


    If Caitlyn Jenner can identify as a woman, why can't Rachel Dolezal say that she's black? Plenty of people have asked this question, even before Dolezal's name became a hashtag.

    We've seen Jenner step out publicly and tell the world how she knew she identified as female, even while competing at the 1976 Olympic games and even as a young child. And like we'd do for transgender friends who come out, we use the preferred she/her pronouns and acknowledge her first name as Caitlyn.

    So why don't we just accept Dolezal as black? Because she's not.

    Her parents say she is not even close to being black, but she has portrayed herself as such. Dolezal, who graduated from historically black Howard University, leads the Spokane, Washington, chapter of the NAACP and is a professor for Eastern Washington University's Africana studies department. On paper, she appears to have the basic makings of a black intellectual: She's lectured on the history of natural hair (and has sported locs and afro-like curls herself), and has become a formidable activist in black rights and in the fight against police brutality in Spokane. While she has not always declared herself a black woman, she has rejected her white parents publicly and claimed to be at least part black when applying for a position on the local police ombudsman commission.

    So what's the difference between identifying as black and identifying as a woman?

    It's pretty clear: Dolezal has lied. She's spent the last decade going out of her way to falsely represent herself as black. And she claimed her race, as well as her outspoken activism, made her a target for hate mail and death threats (an allegation that investigators have yet to substantiate, according to KXLY News).

    Rather identifying as a white ally, Dolezal misrepresented herself. This does not necessarily distort her leadership potential or passion for justice, but deeply mars her general credibility as an individual. In a statement Friday morning, the NAACP said "one's racial identity is not a qualifying criteria or disqualifying standard for NAACP leadership. ... In every corner of this country, the NAACP remains committed to securing political, educational and economic justice for all people, and we encourage Americans of all stripes to become members and serve as leaders in our organization."

    On the flip side, transgender people like Caitlyn Jenner are not lying. If anything, their decision to come out is the ultimate declaration of honesty, of being upfront with who they are.

    Dolezal has been performing a sort of blackface, a stereotypical concept in itself, that is largely seen as falsely representing black existence. So the big difference is that while we don't know why Dolezal carried on with an assumed black identity for so many years, we do know that transgender people aren't donning costumes or masquerading in different genders. They're living their truth, which seems to be more honest than what's been unfolding in Spokane.

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    On Thursday, PolitiStick was one of the first to report the story of Rachel Dolezal, the white woman who duped the NAACP chapter in Spokane, Washington into believing that she was really a black woman.

    After the story went viral and Dolezal was responsible for three separate top trends on Twitter, the NAACP was put in a place where they could no longer be silent on the matter.

    The NAACP, which formerly stood for advancing causes supporting the advancement of civil rights for black people, but has been fundamentally transformed into a communist front group, released an official statement on the matter Friday, throwing their support behind the white Dolezal, despite her massive deception.



    Shockingly, the organization said that they don’t consider skin color or race a qualifier for NAACP leadership (emphasis added):

    “For 106 years, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has held a long and proud tradition of receiving support from people of all faiths, races, colors and creeds. NAACP Spokane Washington Branch President Rachel Dolezal is enduring a legal issue with her family, and we respect her privacy in this matter. One’s racial identity is not a qualifying criteria or disqualifying standard for NAACP leadership.

    The NAACP Alaska-Oregon-Washington State Conference stands behind Ms. Dolezal’s advocacy record. In every corner of this country, the NAACP remains committed to securing political, educational, and economic justice for all people, and we encourage Americans of all stripes to become members and serve as leaders in our organization.”
    Moreover, the organization claimed to be a victim of “hate language” and that they take “all threats seriously,” calling on the Obama FBI and DOJ to come to their rescue. The statement did not provide and specific examples or details on any supposed threats.

    Have you ever seen a white NAACP leader before?
    If white people are allowed to be leaders of the NAACP,
    then they must have a diversity problem

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    One Tweet Perfectly Shows Everything Wrong With What Rachel Dolezal Did
    — In Her Own Words

    By Natasha Noman June 12, 2015


    Rachel Dolezal, the president of the Spokane, Washington, chapter of the NAACP, was exposed on Thursday for being a white woman, despite portraying herself as black. After suspicion regarding her ethnicity swirled, Dolezal's parents were contacted and they confirmed the rumors.

    "She's our birth daughter and we're both of European descent," Larry Dolezal, Rachel's father, told BuzzFeed News Thursday night. "We're puzzled and it's very sad."

    Some people attempted to exonerate her by calling her "transracial," at which Twitter erupted in fury, leaving many outraged at the justification. But one tweet in particular perfectly captures everything wrong with what Dolezal did — and by using her own words.



    "Follow the money trail," Dolezal said during an organized discussion on the film The Help in 2012 at Gonzaga University, the Gonzaga Bulletin reported at the time. "A white woman makes millions off of a black woman's story."

    "Dolezal worried that people might believe this film followed a true story," the Bulletin writes. "She grew worried and frustrated when she saw it in the theaters in Idaho, a prominently white town that rarely shows 'those types of films—black films,' and the audience laughed at inappropriate moments."

    Washington Post reporter Abby D. Phillip tweeted this excerpt of the interview on Friday afternoon highlighting the hypocrisy of Dolezal's capitalizing off a fraudulent identity, building a career and persona off it. She is not only an NAACP chapter president but teaches Africana Studies at Eastern Washington University too, all the while implying she understands the African-American experience because she's lived it.



    Even her colleagues suspected she was responsible for sending herself threats after she repeatedly claimed she was the victim of hate crimes. It was Dolezal's reporting a threatening package in her post office box which ultimately led to the public scrutiny. http://www.spokesman.com/stories/201...about-truthfu/

    In a February interview with the Easterner, Dolezal also claimed she was of Native American descent, that she had been born in a tepee and was required to hunt and gather her food as a child.




    "It's very sad that Rachel has not just been herself," her mother, Ruthanne Dolezal, told the Spokesman-Review Thursday. "Her effectiveness in the causes of the African-American community would have been so much more viable, and she would have been more effective if she had just been honest with everybody."

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    Rachel Dolezal is just your ordinary liberal nutjob. She is the head Of Spokane NAACP and has portrayed herself as black. In reality she is whiter than rice on a paper plate in a snowstorm.

    She claimed to be the subject of 8 hate crimes. Here’s how she is responding to all this mess. “We’re all from the African continent.”

    From the Spokesman-Review via Weasel Zippers:

    Dolezal, 37, avoided answering questions directly about her race and ethnicity Thursday, saying, “I feel like I owe my executive committee a conversation” before engaging in a broader discussion with the community about what she described as a “multi-layered” issue.

    “That question is not as easy as it seems,” she said after being contacted at Eastern Washington University, where she’s a part-time professor in the Africana Studies Program. “There’s a lot of complexities … and I don’t know that everyone would understand that.”

    Later, in an apparent reference to studies tracing the scientific origins of human life to Africa, Dolezal added: “We’re all from the African continent.”
    http://v.cdn.vine.co/r/videos_h264hi...Ext76HmAgROJCL



    This is the best response I have seen so far. So true…

    A WHITE liberal, pretending to be BLACK has a much greater chance of being
    hired at #NAACP, than an actual BLACK conservative.#RachelDolezal…
    http://www.youngcons.com/tweet-from-...-for-the-ages/
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    "On Friday, after a long news week, the story of Rachel Dolezal hit the press, proving once again that God loves us and wants us to be happy.

    Just last week the President of the United States congratulated Bruce Jenner on his courageous decision to pretend to be a woman, and the entire left bursting into spasms of ecstasy over a collectively insane decision to ratify the notion that men can magically become women. Today, the entire left is struggling to explain how a white woman who identifies herself as black is not, in fact, black.

    Here’s the basic story: Rachel Dolezal is president of the Spokane, Washington chapter of the NAACP. For years, she has passed herself off as black. Now her parents have told the press that she is their “birth daughter and we’re both of European descent… we’re puzzled and it’s very sad.” Her ethnic heritage: German, Swedish, Czech. She is less black than Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA)12%
    is Native American. Rachel stopped corresponding with her parents because she was afraid, according to them, that they would expose her ruse.

    Now, some additional facts on the greatest story in human history:

    She Has Admitted Her Parents Are White. When asked by The Spokesman-Review in Spokane, Washington whether she was white, she answered, “That question is not as easy as it seems. There’s a lot of complexities… and I don’t know that everyone would understand that.” She concluded, “We’re all from the African content.” Except, of course, for Barack Obama, who was born in Hawaii.

    She Says She Lived in a Teepee, and Her Family Used Bows and Arrows to Hunt. In an interview with The Easterner, the newspaper for Eastern Washington University, conducted by Shawntelle Moncy (who described Dolezal as a woman with unexpected green eyes, a caramel skin complexion and a warm smile, as well as a woman of “many faces”), she said that she was born in a “Montana teepee.” She said that her family “hunted their food with bows and arrows.” She said she and her parents lived in Colorado and South Africa after moving from Montana. Her parents say all of that is false.

    She Is An Adjunct Professor of African-American Studies at Eastern Washington University. President of the university Mary Cullinan described her in March as “an inspiring role model for EWU students.” She teaches African-American studies, as well as classes including “African and African American Art History, African History, African American Culture, The Black Women’s Struggle, and Intro to Africana Studies at EWU.” Yes, “The Black Women’s Struggle.” Her profile says 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.”

    She has other interests, too, including “African dance” and “ethnic hair styling.” Yes, seriously.

    Her Work Has Been Featured By The United Nations. According to her EWU profile again:

    In addition to her role as an educator, Doležal has fourteen years of experience as an exhibiting artist and has taught K-12 & college art lessons in public, private, and non-traditional school settings. Her works have been featured in The Artist’s Magazine, shown in 13 states and displayed at the United Nations’ Headquarters in New York. Doležal began teaching private & group art lessons in 1994 and synthesizes art history, cultural studies, & the creative process when teaching. She believes that the creative process is part of what makes us human and unifies our self-identity with the world around us. Doležal was an instructor in the Art Departments at North Idaho College from 2005-2013 and has taught at Eastern Washington University since 2007.

    She Is A Licensed Diversity Trainer. She went to Howard University for her Master’s Degree, where she reportedly told her adoptive brother not to “blow her cover.” She then became “Director of Education at the Human Rights Education institute, a licensed diversity trainer, and a consultant for human rights education and inclusivity in regional schools,” according to her profile at EWU.

    She Says She Was Repeatedly Abused By Her Parents and Ex-Husband. They then moved to South Africa, where her mother and stepfather beat her and her siblings, “punish[ing] us by skin complexion.” The reporter continues:

    According to Doležal, the object her mother and stepfather used to punish them was called a baboon whip, used to ward baboons away in South Africa. These whips would leave scars behind, “they were pretty similar to what was used as whips during slavery.”

    Her parents say she’s a liar; they never even lived in South Africa.

    Then she was abused by her ex-husband:

    According to Doležal, her ex-husband was abusive to her and even their son. At two years old, little Franklin would intervene between Doležal and her ex-husbands violence and “he would sometimes get thrown across the room,” she said.

    She Says She Was Date-Raped. According to that interview in The Easterner, she was later date-raped by a mentor:

    One of Doležal’s paintings was at a convention center in San Francisco, where her and a trusted mentor went out to dinner together to celebrate the sale. As soon as Doležal looked away, the mentor slipped gamma-hydroxybutyric acid, also called the “date-rape drug,” into her drink. According to Doležal, her mentor took advantage of her that night. She said suing was nearly impossible due to the amount of wealth the man had. “I can never trust anyone to bring me a drink again, you know, because it was a trusted person,” she said.

    Of course, she never reported anything to the police and no one was ever arrested.

    She Says She Is Blonde Because Of Cancer. She told The Easterner:

    In 2006, Doležal developed cervical cancer. During chemotherapy, she decided to keep her incredibly long, blonde dreadlocks she had had and still puts them on today. She was considered cured in 2008.

    She Says She Her Black Brother Is Her Black Son. As BuzzFeed reports, according to her dad, Larry, her “oldest son Izaiah,” who she cites in the press, is actually her adoptive brother. “He used to be my brother,” she told the Couer D’Alene Press. “But I have full custody of him now.” She told that same outlet that they could “DNA test me if they want to.” Her parents say that they adopted four black children. Ruthanne Dolezal said, “It’s very sad that Rachel has not just been herself. Her effectiveness in the causes of the African-American community would have been so much more viable, and she would have been more effective if she had just been honest with everybody.”

    She Has Repeatedly Claimed To Be The Victim of Anti-Black Hate Crimes. She says Idaho white supremacist groups burglarized all of her homes when she lived in the state, and explained that they felt “threatened by female power.” She says they threatened to kidnap her son, Franklin, and “hung nooses in her home.” No arrests were ever made.

    This week, Spokane police released information about Dolezal’s most recent complaint: that she received hate mail. But according to the Spokesman-Review, it’s highly possible she sent it herself:

    Police records say the initial package Dolezal reported receiving did not bear a date stamp or bar code, which Dolezal told police when she reported it. Investigators interviewed postal workers, who said it was either very unlikely or impossible that the package could have been processed through the post office, implying that the only alternative was that it had been put there by someone with a key… Asked about the possibility that she had put the package there herself, she said, “That’s such bullshit. What mother would terrorize her own children?”

    Kurt Neumaier of the Kootenai County Task Force on Human Relations, where Dolezal worked for three years, now says he doubts all of her claims as to hate crimes. He also says she wasn’t properly vetted:

    Neumaier said he was suspicious of several incidents Dolezal reported in Coeur d’Alene, including her discovery of a swastika on the door of the Human Rights Education Institute when the organization’s security camera was “mysteriously turned off.” “None of them passed the smell test,” he said.

    She Acts as a Civilian Police Watchdog, and Stumps For ‪#‎BlackLivesMatter‬. Appointed by the mayor of Spokane, she goes on ride-alongs with police in order to oversee them for any hint of police brutality. She serves as chairwoman of the Office of Police Ombudsman Commission; her application to that position included the self-identifiers black, white, and American Indian. Spokane City spokesman Brian Coddington admitted, “The community wanted diversity and limited background checks.” He also admitted that race “was certainly taken into account,” according to CDAPress.com. He said, “Race wasn’t a criteria in the selection process, but certainly diversity was an important part of the process.”

    {continues}
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    She is a charter member of the #BlackLivesMatter campaign, writing:

    In the famous last words of Eric Garner, “I … can’t … breathe,” there is a metaphor for the asphyxiation we are experiencing as black people in America and in Spokane. The air is thinner for us now; we are not all getting the same amount of oxygen here. So don’t stop us when we reach for the oxygen mask that is hope for justice. Let us say what we need to say, march when we need to march, and hold our kids when we need to feel their hearts beat. Let us be, be with us, and let us breathe.

    The mayor, David Condon, released a joint statement with Council President Ben Stuckart stating, “We are gathering facts to determine if any city policies related to volunteer boards and commissions have been violated. That information will be reviewed by the City Council, which has oversight of city boards and commissions.”

    In the aftermath of the cartoonish left’s Bruce Jenner orgasm, the Rachel Dolezal story must hit like an Acme anvil dropped from the seventh story of a building. Barack Obama had a racially diverse composite girlfriend; Rachel Dolezal was the left’s composite girlfriend. She took every element of leftist stereotype – victimized woman, victimized black, international human rights crusader, diversity fighter, put-upon artist – and rolled them all into a resume. And the left rewarded her again and again: NAACP president, police oversight commission, professoriate, worshipful media attention.

    And then it all came tumbling down, just because of how Rachel Dolezal decided to self-identify. We must pity her, and we must stand with her in her quest to reach self-worth via redefinition of ethnicity. After all, as President Obama said of Bruce Jenner, “It takes courage to share your story.” Even if that story is complete and utter bullshit."

    ~Ben Shapiro
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    Remember when Melissa Harris Perry had a panel on her show that mocked the Romney's adopted Black grandson and now her almost twin, Trans-racial, Rachel Dolezal, was allegedly opposed to Tim Wise a White American anti-racism activist and writer, speaking at Eastern Washington University. Why? Because he is White and therefore could not speak on Black issues and racism.

    So again I ask, which party is the party of the racists?

    This is a continuous problem coming from the left side of the political aisle, and while I know that there are those that probably are those that are racist in any of the political parties, it is long over due for the democrats to honestly admit, they have a blatant problem within their party and even so with those that are in leadership positions in historically Black founded organizations. The democrats still by choice systematically practice exclusion and racial segregation by telling people they can't be participants at functions based upon the color of their skin.

    It is inexcusable to point fingers, sue and protest others charging them with racism and yet they are perpetuating years old practices themselves of 'Black codes' only now it's 'White codes' aka Jim Crow practices in reverse! There will never be a unity of races if these practices are eradicated!



    H/T R.M. for Meme comparison of Rachel Dolezale & Harris-Perry
    Commentary by Babette L Holder of The Last Civil Right
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