Rachel Dolezal Says There Is "No Biological Proof" That She's White
Posted on Wed Jun 17th, 2015 6:44am PDT By X17 Staff
Rachel Dolezal may have stepped down as the president of the Spokane, Washington NAACP chapter after allegedly lying about her race, but she still claims to be African American. Dolezal's latest bombshell? During an interview with NBC’s Savannah Guthrie on last night's Nightly News segment she proclaimed that there's “no biological proof†as to who her real parents are.
“When someone asks, 'Are you black?’ — which I actually don’t get asked very often until recently, since a few days ago — I say, ‘Yeah, I am black,’†she said. “I know who raised me. I haven’t had a DNA test. There’s been no biological proof that Larry and Ruthanne are my biological parents. I’m not necessarily saying that I can prove they’re not, but I don’t know that I can actually prove they are. I mean the birth certificate was issued a month and a half after I’m born. Certainly there were no medical witnesses to my birth. It was in the woods.â€
Ummm, on a scale of 1-10, just how batsh*t crazy is this woman?!
“I definitely am not white,†Dolezal continued. “Nothing about being white describes who I am. So, you know, what’s the word for it? The closest thing that I can come to is if you’re black or white, I’m black. I’m more black than white. On a level of values, lived experience currently. In this moment, that’s the answer. That’s the accurate answer from my truth. But I hope the dialogue continues to push against, ‘What is race? What is ethnicity?’â€
When asked about her appearance, Dolezal said, “I don’t know necessarily if my skin color has changed. It depends on the season, right?…Some days I’ll have bronzer or a glow or other days, I don’t.†Dolezal also told Guthrie she’s “experimented†with her hair while living in Mississippi, but that she’s never had any “surgeries or anything like that†to darken her skin.
So what's next? Dolezal said she’s going to “need to do a little regrouping and be able to process the implications now as I move forward.†We're curious to see how many more interviews she agrees to do during this regrouping period...