Former Spokane, Wash. NAACP chief Rachel Dolezal made her first major television appearance Tuesday since revelations that she had lied to colleagues about being black.
Dolezal, referring to her ethnicity as a “complexity of my identity,” tells Matt Lauer that she considers herself to be black, even though she is “visually” caucasian.
Dolezal says she began identifying as black as early as five years old, telling Lauer, “I was drawing self-portraits with the brown crayon instead of the peach crayon.”
"This goes back to a very early age with my self identification with the black experience as a very young child."
"Dolezal says she began identifying as black as early as five years old, telling Lauer, “I was drawing self-portraits with the brown crayon instead of the peach crayon.”"
Lauer: Your parents were asked this question this week. They didn’t have trouble answering it. They said, she’s clearly our birth daughter and we are clearly caucasian. That’s a fact. Your father said she’s a talented woman doing work she believes in. Why can’t she do that as a caucasian woman which is what she is? How do you answer that question?
Dolezal: Well, first of all, I really don’t see why they are in such a rush to whitewash some of the work I have done and who I am and how I have identified.
Lauer: Your parents were asked this question this week. They didn’t have trouble answering it. They said, she’s clearly our birth daughter and we are clearly caucasian. That’s a fact. Your father said she’s a talented woman doing work she believes in. Why can’t she do that as a caucasian woman which is what she is? How do you answer that question?
Dolezal: Well, first of all, I really don’t see why they are in such a rush to whitewash some of the work I have done and who I am and how I have identified.
This parents vs. daughter beef...
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Originally posted by Taste of Honey
She is like I'm Black and that is IT. Y'all can seethe and fume but this 3b wig on my head is staying perched as well as my complexion.
You think for an educated woman she'd know better. What is black? How can you identify yourself with a skin colour. That's all black is a pigmentation of our skin not a way of life or a code of conduct. I need this lady to take her "L" and disappear into oblivion.
