Wait – The Head Of The Spokane NAACP Isn’t Black?

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Rachel Dolezal is the president of the Spokane, Washington, chapter of the NAACP. She’s also a professor of Africana studies at Eastern Washington, and sits on the city’s police ombudsman committee. She claims to have been born in a teepee, hunted with bows and arrows as a child, and listed her race on her ombudsman application as African-American. She’s given a lecture about having a black person’s hair, posted on Facebook about being black in a theater showing “12 Years A Slave,” and has also posted pictures of her black father and son.

But there’s a problem: the parents listed on her birth certificate are Ruthanne and Lawrence Dolezal, who live in Rachel’s home state of Montana. They say they quit living in a teepee three years before Rachel was born and that the kid she claims as her son is her adopted brother. Lawrence also looks nothing like the man in the photograph, which is important: their background is German, Swedish, Czech, and a hint of Native American. In other words, Rachel isn’t black, according to the parents. In an interview with KXLY, Dolezal refused to answer if she was African American.

Now the Internet thinks she’s a fraud who didn’t experience growing up a poor black child. Guess only people who have, like Navin Johnson, can speak to that struggle. Have we learned nothing from Caitlyn Jenner?

Read more at KXLY.

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