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White Woman Activist 'pretending To Be Black.'(pictures) by Esdb3: 8:38am On Jun 13, 2015
Living a lie was full-time work for Rachel
Dolezal, the Montana-born white woman
who in recent years moved through the
world as a black civil rights activist.
Dolezal, 37, head of the NAACP’s Spokane
chapter since January, leaned on her two
adoptive kid brothers — both African-
American — to abet her long-running racial
ruse.
She posted a picture of a black couple on
her Facebook page, announcing them as her
parents — while her real mom and pop
were actually white and living in Montana.
The African studies instructor eventually
severed ties with her biological parents,
telling a local television station they hadn’t
spoken in years.

{Picture 1} Rachel Dolezal was born to white parents of
European descent, as is clear from a picture
from her youth (r.), but has used makeup and
fixed her hair so as to appear African
American, her parents said.}

“What I say to them is, ‘I don’t give two sh----
about what you guys think,’” she said in a
Thursday interview with KREM-TV. “You’re so
far done and gone out of my life ... I do not
talk to (them) anymore.”

Sibling Ezra recalled how his sister asked
him not to “blow my cover” before a 2012
visit, and then criticized her strange double-
life as akin to wearing blackface.
“She’s basically creating more racism,” he
told The Washington Post. “It’s a farce,
really, is what it is.”

{Picture 2}Lawrence and Ruthanne Dolezal confirmed
their daughter, who leads the NAACP chapter
in Spokane, is a white woman who always
liked to identify with African-American
culture.}

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But Dolozel, in her TV interview, didn’t
hesitate when asked asked if she identified
herself as African-American despite her
family tree.
“I don’t like the term African-American,” she
said. “I prefer black. If it was asked, I would
definitely say I do consider myself to be
black.”

The racial controversy was coupled Friday
with an announcement from Spokane police
that they were suspending their probes into
all racial harassment complaints filed by
Dolezal.
A release of local police records showed
cops felt Dolezal’s claim of discovering an
envelope stuffed with racist material in the
NAACP post office was sketchy at best.
The envelope was never canceled or time-
stamped, and was placed in a box accessible
only to postal workers.
“I do not have any reason to believe that
any of these employees were involved,”
wrote the investigating detective without
pointing any fingers.
Dolezal had previously made two police
complaints about nooses left at her home,
and a third about a swastika taped to the
door of the Human Rights Education
Institute in Washington state.
Police found no suspects and made no
arrests in any of the cases.

{Picture 3}Rachel at age 18.}
{Picture 4}Her birth certificate.}
{Picture 5} Dolezal (r.) linking arms and singing 'We Shall
Overcome' at a rally in Spokane, Wash., in
March.}

The explosion of insane interest came after
Dolezal’s parents revealed the truth about
their daughter’s race to anyone who would
listen, blowing up the Twitterverse as the
beleaguered Dolezal hunkered down and
hid.
“Rough day,” she wrote Friday on Facebook.
“Eaten alive on Twitter ... harassed at home
and work. Media coming by the house at all
hours.”
She thanked her friends for their support,
and recounted a “heart to heart” talk with
members of the NAACP executive
committee.

{Picture 6}Dolezal's parents are both white and said their
daughter has publicly claimed that her
adopted black brother is her own son.}

Dolezal said she “will be addressing the
Spokane NAACP membership and all my
friends soon.” The activist — whose Twitter
handle is “@HarlmRenaissance” — otherwise
avoided the spotlight.

Her parents, Ruthanne and Lawrence
Dolezal, produced childhood photos of a
blonde, blue-eyed, freckled Rachel — a
stark contrast with the adult activist, who
sports dark curly hair and light brown skin.
“She would put her hair in long extensions
and do African hairstyles, and she liked to
identify with the culture,” her mother
Ruthanne Dolezal told the Daily News.
“But she was who she was.”

Despite her Montana roots and European
ethnicity, Dolezal embraced black culture
and married a black man in May 2000. She
attended historically-black Howard
University, and became an African studies
instructor at a Washington state college.
Her brother Izaiah was a 10-month-old black
child when her parents adopted the boy in
June 1994, according to Ruthanne and her
husband Larry.

{Picture 7}Rachel Dolezal's tips for black viewers seeing
'12 Years a Slave' in theaters.}
{Picture 8}Dolezal compares a supposed detail of her
childhood to that of a slave character in the
film.}

He now lives with Rachel, who has publicly
identified her adopted brother as her son.
The Caucasian couple adopted two other
African-American kids and a fourth black
child from Haiti. The couple also has a
biological son.
The parents said their daughter’s actual
ethnicity is a mix of German and Swedish on
the mom’s side, Czech and German on the
dad’s side.

Rachel Dolezal became estranged from her
parents around 2007 as she began to adopt
her African-American identity.
“That’s when we first starting noticing
hostility towards us,” said Ruthanne. “It was
terrible. It was a great grief to us. We had to
trust that something down the road would
change.
“But what has changed has been alarming
and disturbing, because she has become
more and more deceptive.”

{Picture 9}Dolezal claims the man in the center is her
son, but it is actually her adopted brother
Izaiah Dolezal. She also claims the man on the
far right is her father, when in fact he is not.}

Spokane officials said Dolezal was under
investigation for listing herself as black,
white and American Indian on an application
for a spot on the Office of Police
Ombudsman Commission.
“We are gathering facts to determine if any
city policies related to volunteer boards and
commissions have been violated,” said a
statement from Mayor David Condon and
City Council President Ben Stuckart.
She currently chairs the Spokane police
oversight commission, and took over in
January as head of the NAACP.

{Picture 10}Rachel Dolezal pictured with a black man who
is identified as her father in a post on the
Spokane NAACP's Facebook page. Her
biological father is white.}

The national organization offered its support
for the embattled West Coast executive.
“NAACP Spokane Washington Branch
President Rachel Dolezal is enduring a legal
issue with her family, and we respect her
privacy in this matter,” said a statement
Friday from the national NAACP.
“One’s racial identity is not a qualifying
criteria or disqualifying standard for NAACP
leadership.”

Dolezal, in addition to the racial deception,
concocted wild stories about her youth that
were denied by her biological mom and
dad.
She recounted hunting their food with bow
and arrow, beatings with a “baboon whip”
and living inside a Montana tepee.


**they want to be us now**#BlackisCOOL



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Re: White Woman Activist 'pretending To Be Black.'(pictures) by Esdb3: 8:42am On Jun 13, 2015
More pictures

Re: White Woman Activist 'pretending To Be Black.'(pictures) by kikilove(f): 8:45am On Jun 13, 2015
Main while most Nigerian gals are busy bleaching their way through life to be white

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Re: White Woman Activist 'pretending To Be Black.'(pictures) by Esdb3: 8:46am On Jun 13, 2015
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Re: White Woman Activist 'pretending To Be Black.'(pictures) by kikilove(f): 8:48am On Jun 13, 2015
Nice story
Re: White Woman Activist 'pretending To Be Black.'(pictures) by centmichael101(m): 8:48am On Jun 13, 2015
She's made of black!!
Re: White Woman Activist 'pretending To Be Black.'(pictures) by Nobody: 8:50am On Jun 13, 2015
Am here to read comments and view profile pics
Re: White Woman Activist 'pretending To Be Black.'(pictures) by Magician1503(m): 8:53am On Jun 13, 2015
Black creed on the inside.
Re: White Woman Activist 'pretending To Be Black.'(pictures) by lovemoi2(f): 9:05am On Jun 13, 2015
When a man changes to a woman is accepted

So if a white gurl saya she is black it should be accepted too
Re: White Woman Activist 'pretending To Be Black.'(pictures) by hummerwise(m): 9:31am On Jun 13, 2015
[size=16pt]TANK GOD AM BLACK[/size]
Re: White Woman Activist 'pretending To Be Black.'(pictures) by Houseofglam7(f): 11:24am On Jun 13, 2015
Somewhere not too far away, some black girl is bleaching the hell outta her skin to become white.





SMH
Re: White Woman Activist 'pretending To Be Black.'(pictures) by dkronicle(m): 1:40pm On Jun 13, 2015
Black is unique thatx all.
Re: White Woman Activist 'pretending To Be Black.'(pictures) by musicwriter(m): 1:40pm On Jun 13, 2015
That woman could be a black woman trapped in a white body. Just like Eminem the rapper. Eminem is a blackman trapped in a white body. There're many cases like that. Someone like Noam Shomski is a blackman trapped in a white body. I can go on and on.
Even Abram Lincoln was also that type of man, a blackman trapped in a white body. Abraham Lincoln in the face of death, and rejection from his political party, chose to put his political career and life at risk to set blacks free.

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