Questions raised about race of Spokane NAACP head

The Seattle Times ^ | June 11, 2015 | By Seattle Times Staff

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Controversy is swirling around one of the region’s most prominent civil rights activists, with family members saying the local leader of the NAACP has falsely portrayed herself as black for years.

Rachel Dolezal is president of the Spokane chapter of the NAACP, chair of the city’s Office of Police Ombudsman Commission, and an adjunct professor at Eastern Washington University.

Dolezal’s mother says the family’s ancestry is Czech, Swedish and German, with a touch of Native American heritage.

Dolezal has identified herself in application materials as white, black and Native American.

Police say they have also found little evidence to back up her numerous claims of racial harassment.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Rachel Doležal holds her Master's degree from Howard University and is a professor in the Africana Studies Program at Eastern Washington University. Doležal has taught African and African American Art History, African History, African American Culture, The Black Woman's Struggle, and Intro to Africana Studies at EWU. Her scholarly research focuses on the intersection of race, gender and class in the contemporary Diaspora with a specific emphasis on Black women in visual culture. Her passion for civil rights is influenced by her years in Mississippi, where she advocated for equal rights and participated in community development.

[trisham]

What an education. Can she flip a burger? I hope so.

[BenLurkin]

Racist organization is racist

[gorush]

If Bruce can proclaim himself to be a woman, certainly this gal can proclaim herself to be black.

[Timber Rattler]

Hmmmm, so isn’t it discriminatory to either refuse or terminate employment of someone based on race?

[stylin19a]

NAACP was started by a group of which a majority were white.

[grania]

racist organization is racist

Which logically negates their reason to exist.

[Lion Den Dan]

The important thing is how she self identifies, i.e. male, female, black, white, other etc. The police have nothing to say about this, the sexist, racist pigs.

[Repeal 16-17]

If Bruce can proclaim himself to be a woman, certainly this gal can proclaim herself to be black.

Thread winner. Liberals keep proclaiming that sex/gender is simply a state of mind. So why don't they believe the same regarding race?

[Mercat]

OK, I’m channeling Elle in Legally Blond but I need to see her hair care records. That is a perm... not natural curls.

[17th Miss Regt]

B****, you ain’t no mo’ black than Obama’s mama!

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Angela Davis needs to sit this beotch DOWN for a talkin’ to!

*SMIRK*

The Looney Left is such a parody of itself...

[DaxtonBrown]

Wow, she is really into being transracial.

[Radagast the Fool]

The NAACP microagressed her.
They can replace her with either Bill Clinton, “The First Black President” , or Elizabeth Warren, who probably has some black blood mixed in with her Indian blood.

[OldSmaj]

Dolezal’s mother says the family’s ancestry is Czech, Swedish and German, with a touch of Native American heritage.

That must have been one hell of a big woodpile.

[katana]

NAACP was started by a group of which a majority were white.

And all of them, black and white, Republicans no doubt.

[RightGeek]

[Gay State Conservative]

Claiming to be something you're not? Shocking...simply shocking!

[I want the USA back]

The worst racists are at naacp.

[Paladin2]

I thought that all humans are African based. Black and White rarely describes skin color.