The Spokane NAACP president Rachel Dolezal was accused of pretending to be black and denying her Caucasian background. (Photo : Facebook/Spookane NAACP)
Rachel Dolezal is back almost five months after making headlines for being accused of misrepresenting her race. The former leader of the Spokane, Washington, chapter of NAACP recently admitted that she was indeed born white biologically.
On Nov. 2, Monday, Dolezal appeared on "The Real" opened up about her biological background. The audience gave her a round of applause when she mentioned that she was born white.
On the other hand, Dolezal told "The Real" hosts Jeannie Mai, Loni Love, Adrienne Baillon, Tamar Braxton and Tamera Mowry-Housley that she still self-identifies as being black.
"I acknowledge that I was biologically born white to white parents," Dolezal said. "But I identify as black."
According to Dolezal, she was "really young" when she already see herself as "being black." She explained that around 1998, people started identifying her as biracial, and in fact, police even mark her race on traffic tickets as black.
It was in 2006 when Dolezal already "self-identified as black," she said.
Mowry-Housley asked Dolezal what being black means to her. According to the former NAACP official, how a person feels sometimes is more powerful than how he is born.
"Blackness can be defined as philosophical, cultural, biological, you know, it's a lot of different things to a lot of different people," Dolezal said.
Months before her "The Real" appearance, Dolezal maintained that she identifies as human racially and as black culturally. When she appeared on "Today" in June, she claimed she was drawing self-portraits with the brown crayon when she was young instead of the peach crayon.
