Rachel Dolezal resigned from her position at the NAACP in the middle of the uproar over her ethnic identification.
In Spokane, she was also relieved of her duties as chair of the Office of the Police Ombudsman Commission after an inquiry revealed a pattern of misbehavior on her part.
Having been manipulated and duped, The Pacific Northwest Inlander, a journal to which Dolezal had contributed, also severed connections with her. Despite the incident (which attracted national notice), Dolezal has maintained her identity as a black woman without wavering.
Rachel has acknowledged that she was “biologically born to white parents” but claimed that she self-identifies as black because she believes race is a social construct.
Dolezal published a memoir about her racial identity in the years since, with the working title In Full Color: Finding My Place in a Black and White World.
Rachel talks about how she identified as black even as a young child, even though she didn’t encounter a black person until she was 10. When she was 17, she had the chance to spend her summer vacation working for a friend’s greeting card business.
