Rachel Dolezal, the Spokane, Washington NAACP chapter president, has provided few answers about racially charged-letters allegedly sent to her and her parents' statements on Thursday that she has been disguising herself for years and is actually white, not black.
Dolezal did interviews with two local television stations on Thursday.
When confronted by a KXLY reporter with a photograph of a black man and asked if he is her father, Dolezal responds “yes, that is my dad.”
The reporter repeated the question, asking “is your father an African American man.” Dolezal responds, “I don’t know what you are implying.”
The reporter then asks her directly, “Are you African American?” she says that she doesn’t understand the question and walks away.
When asked about her relationship with her family on KREM, she said, "there is a lawsuit that's been going on for almost a year, where I supported my younger sister in allegations against her older brother."
The question of Dolezal’s ethnicity stems from a recent investigation into allegedly racially charged threats made against her and the NAACP.
Dolezal claims to have received a number of threatening letters and pictures of lynching in the NAACP’s PO Box – but the letters did not have a dates stamp or barcode according to the Spokane Police Department. The only way the letters could have been placed in the mailbox would be by someone with a key or a USPS employee. Police said they have ruled out postal employees as suspects.
“Well, I say that doesn’t make sense to me,” Dolezal told KREM. “Mail doesn’t get into your post office box only if you have a key.”
She said that two pieces of mail were sent from Oakland, California and she – nor anyone else at the Spokane NAACP – doesn’t know anyone who lives there.
The letters "seem to be more frequent when I'm involved in human rights and civil rights work," she said. "I don't think that's it's only happened to me...this type of harassment has a long history."
When asked if she might have overreacted to the letter, she said her reaction was appropriate.
“Nothing comes to mind as far as an overreaction,” she said. “It’s fair game to wonder if I misinterpreted something. When it comes to my kids, I don’t think anything is an overreaction.”
LINK: A Civil Rights Leader Has Disguised Herself As Black For Years, Her Parents Say
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