“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character,” Martin Luther King, Jr.
The head of the Phoenix NAACP is white, so why did she feel the need to be something she wasn’t? Why did she feel the need to lie? It goes to character, and she appears to be lacking….
The president of the Spokane, Wash. chapter of the NAACP has claimed for years to be part African-American and that she has been targeted in numerous hate crimes. But in fact, 37-year-old Rachel Dolezal is not black at all, her parents say. She’s white, and she was born in Montana, and she’s lied about many other details of her past.
One bizarre claim Dolezal has made, according to The Couer d’Alene Press, is that she was born in a teepee and that she has a son who is black. But a young man Dolezal claims is her child is actually her adopted brother. Dolezal’s parents, Larry and Ruthanne, adopted four African orphans between 1993 and 1995.
The Dolezals also adamantly deny that their daughter was born in a teepee. The couple lived in one for a short period in the early 1970s, but that was before Dolezal was born.
According to The Press, Dolezal, who besides leading the NAACP chapter is an Africana studies professor at Eastern Washington University, falsely claimed she was African-American on an application for a position as the chair of Spokane’s Office of Police Ombudsman Commission.