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.
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 one reporter asked if she was African American, she didn't answer, but walked away. Maybe she was wondering, "What has that got to do with anything?".
Have to wonder what all the controversy is about, when Her family claims she is a white woman, but says she is black. What difference does it make, one way or the other, whether she is white or black, as long as she can do the job?
She had helped secure the group a downtown office and improved the organization’s financial standing. One has to wonder if it was her family, who did not want to be thought of as black and that is why they spoke up and created the controversy.
Maybe she isn't a full blooded African American, but maybe there was African American blood, in her family, not necessarily with her parents, but maybe in a past generation, which her family does not want to admit. Since she looks dark enough to possibly have some African American in her, maybe it is why she thought of herself as African American.
Both of those groups of people are made up of many nationalities, so what does her skin color matter? What does it matter if she does identify with being African American?
“One’s racial identity is not a qualifying criteria or disqualifying standard for NAACP leadership,” the group said in a statement on Friday.