Guest Yahoo! News Posted June 16, 2015 Share Posted June 16, 2015 [attach=full]23142[/attach]Washington state civil rights advocate Rachel Dolezal, who has been accused of falsely claiming she is African-American, said on Tuesday she identifies as black and has been doing so since she was 5 years of age. Dolezal, in an interview on NBC's "Today" television show, said a major shift in her identity came when she was doing human rights work in Idaho and newspaper stories described her as transracial, biracial and black. "I never corrected that," she said, "... because it's more complex than being true or false in that particular instance." Dolezal, 37, who grew up with adopted black siblings, resigned on Monday as president of the Spokane chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, a leading U.S. civil rights organization, amid reports that her parents are white. Continue reading... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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