The former spokesman for the Spokane, Wash. chapter of the NAACP who portrayed herself as black has admitted the truth about her birth and upbringing as a white child Monday. However, she still insists she is black because she identifies herself as such.
In an television appearance on Fox's "The Real," Rachel Dolezal, who made national headlines after she was
forced to resign her position with the NAACP as news of the deception broke earlier this year, told the group of black female hosts, "I acknowledge that I was biologically born white to white parents, but I identify as black."
Her position did not go over too well with her black female interviewers.
In a video clip posted on
"The Real's" website, Dolezal quotes a famous black radical comedian, saying "Well, like Dick Gregory says, white isn't a race, it's a state of mind."
Show co-host Loni Love took exception to the comment, stating that she could never be white in the way that Dolezal is attempting to be black, which puts her life in danger in interactions with the police.
"I'm black. I can't be you. I can't reverse myself. So let's check you right there," Love said.
"If the police stop me, you can throw that [blackness] off and show that light nice fine hair … and you might get away. I may not. I may not even make it into the jail.
"So it's a difference."
The audience applauded the remarks.
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