Rachel Dolezal fianlly admits she's white (eonline)
Rachel Dolezal has finally come clean about her race and she has admitted she is white but will love to be indentified as black.
The former Washington state local NAACP
leader who lied about her race earlier this year in an interview with
NBC, finally gave into the truth on national TV on Monday, November 2.
"I was
biologically born white, to white parents," Dolezal told the co-hosts of 'The Real' - to a thunderous applause.
The 37-year-old Dolezal, who was president of the
NAACP chapter in Spokane until June, when her estranged parents outed
her as white, did face a somewhat hostile all-black panel on Monday.
However, Dolezal reiterated that she does identify as black. "Sometimes how we feel is more powerful than how we are born" Dolezal, who's allegedly pregnant, explained.
"Blackness can be defined as philosophical, cultural, biological, a lot
of different things for a lot of different people. I do think you have
to walk the walk if that’s how you are."
When asked by Tamar Braxton asked if she "walked the walk" of someone who was black, Dolezal said, "absolutely."
The
co-hosts were not all that impressed. Loni Love seemed to lecture
Dolezal, telling her she can switch back and forth between black and
white to suit her needs.\
"Let
me tell you something: I’m black. I can’t be you. I can’t reverse
myself. Let’s check you, Rachel. If the police stopped me, you could
throw that off and show that nice fine hair up under, and you might get
away. I may not. I may not even make in the jail," Love said.
Braxton also asked Dolezal if she feels she has deceived anyone. "No, I don’t," Dolezal said. "Don’t we all have the right to be exactly who we are?"
But
then again, if people can say they are not men/women and transit into
the opposit sex, why can't a white woman identify herself as black or
vice versa?
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