White woman 'pretends' to be black – for several years *Mod warning in OP*

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A white woman in the US has been exposed as having pretended to be black (or African-American, as she self-identified) for the past several years.

The parents of Rachel Dolezal have come out and said that she began to “disguise herself” as black around 2006 or 2007.

“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”, her mother said.

“She's our birth daughter and we're both of European descent... we're puzzled and it's very said”, said her father.

Dolezal is the president of the Spokane, Washington, chapter of the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People). She is also Adjunct professor of 'Africana studies' at Eastern Washington University. According to her biography on the Eastern Washington University website, “at least eight documented hate crimes targeted Dolezal and her children during her residency in North Idaho”.

Photos have emerged of Dolezal as a young woman, with straight, blonde hair. Also, in an interview with KXLY 4, she is shown a picture of her white father, and asked straight up if she is African-American. She freezes, avoids the question and walks away.

It's at 8 minutes 15 seconds into this video.



Does anyone else feel that what this woman has done is unbelievably disrespectful to the black community in America? Photos of her as a young woman show that she does not in any way look like a person of colour, but has unnaturally curled her hair and somehow pretended that she comes from the same background as most black Americans? Why on earth would a white person be the subject of 'hate crimes', unless they were because she was white (and the biography certainly doesn't present it that way)?

The woman is either mentally ill, or someone who who wanted to embrace the idea of black Americans as permanent victims with unkempt hair. Every year, around Halloween, Native American and First Nation people in North America come out and say, “please don't dress like us... our culture is not a costume”.

Yet clearly, this woman thought black culture was a costume, that she could wear for the past 8 or 9 years! It boggles the mind!