Posted on 06/12/2015 3:21:28 PM PDT by 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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I worked for and with black people most of my life, and NEVER did anyone I knew experience any of these things. Not once. Ever. And we're in the deep South.
She’d be orange then.
The graduates of historically black colleges I’ve worked with - the majority for some reason from FAM - have been solid, competent colleagues who deliver instead of whining.
Ain’t dat de truff!
Natural career working with the hitlery campaign.
I hear the Caitlan is still totin around Bruce’s junk. He ain’t no she, not even an IT yet.
does not matter to a liberal that both her parents are European white and her grand parents. nope, if she says she is black , she is black. no doubt involved.
I think her biological parents have proof of who she is or is not. They were there at conception, birth, and raised her. I read two reports today that used the word alleged in referring to her birth certificate and pictures the parents produced.
Her roots would be blond from the pictures her parents have shown.
Where else would they be? Don't they have an alibi?
They would certainly know more than the journalists and others tossing around the word alleged.
How does someone with so many easily proven lies rise to such a position?
Please someone ask obama how he did it.....
If she claimed to be transgendered and wanted to use the urinal in the guy locker room everything would be ok.
She’s just claiming to be transracial, and wants to use the big corner office at the NAACP building.
He could tell she was black because every other word was mf.
Exactly. The blond hair wasn't dyed.
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