Every since last week, when Rachel Dolezal, the President of the Spokane, Wa chapter of the NAACP, was outed as White, people have wanted to hear from her. Today she finally broke her silence on Today. Matt Lauer asked her if she is African American, and she told him “I identify as Black.”
Then he asked her when she started identifying as a Black woman, and she told him even as a child she saw herself that way. When she was 5 years old, she would use the brown crayon to draw herself.
So even though she was White, when did people start describing her as Black. She told Matt Lauer that when she was working in North Idaho, she was written up as Trans-Racial then Bi-Racial and finally as Black, and she never corrected them.
Even though people wondered her about her identity for years, it was a surprise to her the timing of being outed last week.
So would she do anything differently, for the most part no.
This is a hot topic that has gotten the whole country talking. Now that you have heard from her, how do you feel about it all?
UPDATE: Here’s Deon Cole talking about Rachel Dolezal on Conan yesterday, and he had some really good points.
