Rachel Dolezal, the former NAACP leader in Spokane, Wash., told Vanity Fair that she identifies as black despite being born to white parents. She has not backed down from this claim since news broke about her in June. Read an excerpt from the interview:

It’s not a costume. I don’t know spiritually and metaphysically how this goes, but I do know that from my earliest memories I have awareness and connection with the black experience, and that’s never left me. It’s not something that I can put on and take off anymore. 

Like I said, I’ve had my years of confusion and wondering who I really [was] and why and how do I live my life and make sense of it all, but I’m not confused about that any longer. I think the world might be — but I’m not.


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