I Met Rachel Dolezal - and Never Doubted Her Black Roots

BBC ^ | 6/12 | Mike Wendling

[nickcarraway]

When I met Rachel Dolezal, I found it easy to accept her description of her ethnicity. Along with BBC correspondent Jonny Dymond, I talked to Dolezal in 2011 in a coffee shop in Spokane, Washington, while producing a BBC World Service documentary on a surge in extremist militia activity in America. She told us that she was of mixed racial heritage but that she primarily identified with her black ancestors. She matter-of-factly listed the abuse she says she received at the hands of racists, including threats, break-ins, and nooses being left at her workplace.

At no time during our hour-long interview, or during a number of phone and email conversations before and after, did Dolezal give any cause to doubt her heritage. But today Dolezal, a well-known local civil rights leader, university lecturer and head of the local chapter of civil rights group NAACP, is being talked about across social media networks, because her family have said she was lying about her background.

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BBC Trending has tried to contact Dolezal, but she hasn't yet responded

[Tijeras_Slim]

nooses being left at her workplace

The fake smoking gun.

[Pearls Before Swine]

“Dark roots?” Maybe he’s talking about her hair?

[nickcarraway]

No, this time a white person did it.

[Gaffer]

Nooses. I don’t believe it for one second.

[tanknetter]

I’m guessing, just guessing, that her racial background wasn’t the only thing she was lying to these BBC morons about.

[Tijeras_Slim]

LOL

[2banana]

Are we going with the Nazi one drop rule?

[gorush]

Did she sound like Hillary at an AME church?

[VanShuyten]

I want to see her tanning salon bill.

[aquila48]

BBC like all the lefty publications are suckers for race pimps.

[ifinnegan]

I think you’ll find her roots are actually blond.

[Billthedrill]

...this time a white person did it.

Egad. You're right! A white person carved the swastika on her door, too! She really is oppressed.

[tuffydoodle]

I thought Rachel dolezale was that fat black moron from the Zimmerman trial.

[wideawake]

She is as dropless as she is shameless.

Wonder if she actually went to Howard as she claimed? I know there is a decent cohort of white students there, but she was not necessarily one.

[Blue Highway]

I thought Rachel dolezale was that fat black moron from the Zimmerman trial.

"That's real retarded sir."

[NormsRevenge]

They got a little black toad , Gaskin, community activist on CNN defending here.

[Tax-chick]

... while producing a BBC World Service documentary fantasy on a surge in extremist militia activity in America.

[builder]

Is a white woman, acting as a fake black woman - who sends herself fake hate letters and nooses - committing a fake hate-crime upon a black person or is she the victim of a fake hate-crime as a fake black person ??? Life is so complicated now. I don't know whether she is a victim or a perpetrator, until I know what the #victimsociety tells me.

[AFreeBird]

Oh, is she a bottle blond?