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I Met Rachel Dolezal - and Never Doubted Her Black Roots
BBC ^ | 6/12 | Mike Wendling

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

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; US: Washington; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: bbc; caitlynjenner; mikewendling; naacp; racheldolezal; transracial; unitedkingdom
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To: nickcarraway
. . .abuse she says she received at the hands of racists, including threats, break-ins, and nooses being left at her workplace

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.

61 posted on 06/12/2015 5:24:42 PM PDT by madprof98
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To: Defiant

She’d be orange then.


62 posted on 06/12/2015 5:44:57 PM PDT by tioga
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

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.


63 posted on 06/12/2015 6:01:16 PM PDT by wideawake
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Ain’t dat de truff!


64 posted on 06/12/2015 8:13:23 PM PDT by X-spurt (CRUZ missile - armed and ready.)
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To: umgud

Natural career working with the hitlery campaign.


65 posted on 06/12/2015 8:14:52 PM PDT by X-spurt (CRUZ missile - armed and ready.)
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To: GeronL

I hear the Caitlan is still totin around Bruce’s junk. He ain’t no she, not even an IT yet.


66 posted on 06/12/2015 8:22:22 PM PDT by X-spurt (CRUZ missile - armed and ready.)
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To: Tijeras_Slim

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.


67 posted on 06/12/2015 8:42:26 PM PDT by fish hawk (no tyrant can remain in power without the consent and cooperation of his victims.)
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To: nickcarraway

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.


68 posted on 06/12/2015 8:45:38 PM PDT by kalee
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To: Pearls Before Swine

Her roots would be blond from the pictures her parents have shown.


69 posted on 06/12/2015 8:47:07 PM PDT by kalee
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They were there at conception

Where else would they be? Don't they have an alibi?

70 posted on 06/12/2015 8:49:59 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

They would certainly know more than the journalists and others tossing around the word alleged.


71 posted on 06/12/2015 8:56:50 PM PDT by kalee
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To: nickcarraway

How does someone with so many easily proven lies rise to such a position?

Please someone ask obama how he did it.....


72 posted on 06/12/2015 9:28:54 PM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: nickcarraway

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.


73 posted on 06/12/2015 9:33:35 PM PDT by RobinOfKingston (Just what is the difference between a "centrist democrat" and a "moderate republican?")
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To: nickcarraway

He could tell she was black because every other word was mf.


74 posted on 06/13/2015 4:07:48 AM PDT by george123 (gesully)
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To: kalee
Her roots would be blond..

Exactly. The blond hair wasn't dyed.

75 posted on 06/13/2015 4:15:38 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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