Rachel Dolezal is leaving her post as president of the Spokane NAACP chapter in Washington after coming under fire for own racial background.
Dolezal announced her resignation on the Spokane NAACP Facebook page:
Dolezal began getting scrutinized about her race after her parents, Ruthanne and Larry Dolezal, told a news outlet near where they live in Montana that their daughter is not African-American. Rachel Dolezal's parents are both white. However, in a post on the Spokane chapter's Facebook page earlier this year, Dolezal is seen standing next to Albert Wilkerson, a black man described in the photo as her father. On her birth certificate, Larry Dolezal is listed as her father.
She fired back at her parents by telling television station KREM, "I don't give two sh--s what you guys think. It's more important for me to clarify that with the black community," Mashable reported.
The situation became a national story when Dolezal walked off a televised interview with KXLY last Thursday. She was physically agitated after being asked if Wilkerson was indeed her father.
Local television station KREM has been at the forefront of the Dolezal story. It reports that she has tried to cover up her racial identity more than once.
At 6, we speak w/ #RachelDolezal's adopted brother. Claims that she told him not to "blow her cover" about her past pic.twitter.com/KTBTfbtROL
— Taylor Viydo (@KREMTaylor) June 15, 2015
