Ex-Spokane NAACP President, Rachel Dolezal, spoke out and defended her case on Today early Tuesday.
"I identify as black," Dolezal said.
She discussed her physical appearance and talked about how as a child she would draw self-portraits with a brown crayon vs. a peach crayon because that's how she identified herself. Dolezal added:
Rachel Dolezal was elected president of the N.A.A.C.P. chapter last year and had been credited to lifting their finances, visibility and membership according to The New York Times.
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