NAACP leader lied about being black and is actually totally white!

What an odd story!


A prominent Washington NAACP leader has allegedly been lying about being black for years.

Rachel Dolezal's own parents outed her to local media, citing pictures of her as a child as proof. Ruthanne Dolezal told the Spokane Spokesman-Review that her 37-year-old daughter started to "disguise herself" after her family adopted four African-American children.

"It's very sad that Rachel has not just been herself," Ruthanne, who hasn't spoken to her daughter in years, said. "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."

Added her father Larry Dolezal to The Washington Post: "Unfortunately, she is not ethnically by birth African American. She is our daughter by birth. And that's the way it is."

When confronted with the allegations Thursday, Dolezal avoided answering any direct questions about her race, telling the paper: "That question is not as easy as it seems."

She continued: "There's a lot of complexities ... and I don't know that everyone would understand that," later adding, "We're all from the African continent."

And when a KXLY reporter point-blank asked her, "Are you African-American?" she replied, "I don't understand the question."



As proof, Ruthanne offered up her daughter's birth certificate to the Spokesman-Review, which lists Ruthanne and Larry – both white – as her parents.

"She's not being rational in what she is saying," Ruthanne told the Seattle Times.

Added Dolezal's father Larry, "She has so much to offer and so many positive experiences, it's not necessary that she would lie. Her advocacy doesn't justify or excuse her for misrepresenting her ethnicity."

And while the family did live in South Africa for a while, "Rachel didn't even visit us while we were there," her father said.

Meanwhile, an inquiry has been opened up at Spokane City Hall, where Dolezal submitted an application to the Office of Police Ombudsman Commission that lists several ethnicities, including black.

Dolezal maintained that she is African-American during a phone interview with the Coeur d'Alene Press. "They can DNA test me if they want to," she said. "I would caution you on all of this. This is ridiculous."

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Re: NAACP leader lied about being black and is actually totally white!

What a psycho

Re: NAACP leader lied about being black and is actually totally white!

I read this on nydailynews.com What a bizarre story.

NAACP leader lied about being black and is actually totally white!

Very odd.

But it sounds like she has done a lot and accomplished a lot.

Bizarre.

NAACP leader lied about being black and is actually totally white!

I find this so crazy!

A reporter asked her point blank "are you black" and she answer with "your question confuses me" or something like that.

I can't wait to see how this pans out

Re: NAACP leader lied about being black and is actually totally white!

This is a strange story

Also I wonder why after all these years her own parents decided to out her in such a public way.

Re: NAACP leader lied about being black and is actually totally white!

This story is SO bizarre. She posted pictures on FB of an AA man calling him "Dad" - which he isn't. She posted pictures of her adopted AA brother saying it was her son. So so strange.

Re: NAACP leader lied about being black and is actually totally white!

NAACP leader lied about being black and is actually totally white!

I just think that the whole thing is more disturbing because she was so deceptive to a national organization. It's like me trying to be the president of A national Greek organization when I'm in fact an Italian-American. Imagine you were a member...how would you feel? Yes, eCaucasian organizations, but deceit is deceit.

NAACP leader lied about being black and is actually totally white!

This is so weird, I also read her parents adopted several black children and she and one brother were the only white children I the family. I wonder if there were some kind of weird favoritism going on or something, this is not normal!