Sources has reported, Rachel Dolezal, the civil rights activist in Washington state who has come under fire for her disputed racial identity, said Monday she was stepping down as president of the NAACP’s Spokane chapter.
In a message posted on the group’s Facebook page, Dolezal wrote that she was stepping aside after a dialogue about social justice issues “unexpectedly shifted internationally to my own personal identity.”
Dolezal became the center of a controversy last week when her parents came forward to say that she was a white woman who was claiming to be black. When a reporter for KXLY in Spokane asked her if she was African American, she said she did not understand the question and walked away.
On Monday, a little more than three days into the national media frenzy, Dolezal cast her decision to step down after five months as head of the Spokane chapter as necessary for the larger organization.
“In the eye of this current storm, I can see that a separation of family and organizational outcomes is in the best interest of the NAACP,” she wrote.
Still, Dolezal wrote that she was hopeful that she had positioned the Spokane chapter well to transition ahead, saying that she had helped secure the group a downtown office and improved the organization’s financial standing.
“This is not me quitting; this is a continuum,” she wrote.
The NAACP’s Spokane chapter had a public meeting scheduled Monday, but Dolezal had postponed the meeting. The chapter’s executive committee chairman was critical of this decision,
“I have waited in deference while others expressed their feelings, beliefs, confusions and even conclusions – absent the full story,” Dolezal wrote.
I wished Rachel Dolezai was more honest with herself and her identity - which to me would depict the most important African American quality - Strength.
She very much could have supported black people as a white woman instead of wearing “blackness” as a costume. I don't know her personally so I can't speak on what she fells inside. I am not sure if this began from some sort of "rebellious" phase to her parents of which she later adopted into her everyday life.
Maybe her parents showed an extreme disdain for African-American's and her way of getting them back was by studying, working, and appearing as an African American Woman. For that I believe this situation is deeper than what is being told. I am more concerned with what was her parents motive for outing their daughter? why now? what pushed them this far? -
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