The faux-black former head of the NAACP in Spokane, Wash., Rachel Dolezal, appeared Tuesday for an interview with the “Today” show’s Matt Lauer, but only made herself a target for more criticism in the process.
Dolezal, the product of two white parents and an exclusively European genetic background, told Lauer she identifies as black, proving that after you open the floodgates of self-identification the sky is the limit.
It didn’t take long for the Twitterverse to explode with scorn for the phony.
“I identify as black- #RachelDolezal speaks out to @MLauer in exclusive inteview http://t.co/mbrozpmcMl https://t.co/Aiwry8e3Tr
— TODAY (@TODAYshow) June 16, 2015
“Have you done something to darken your complexion?” — Watch how #RachelDolezal responded to @MLauer‘s question. https://t.co/Biz3aTatUG
— TODAY (@TODAYshow) June 16, 2015
“I identify as black.” –#RachelDolezal
— TODAY (@TODAYshow) June 16, 2015
“I did feel at some point I would need to address the complexity of my identity.” –#RachelDolezal to @MLauer
— TODAY (@TODAYshow) June 16, 2015
“It’s a little more complex than me identifying as black.” –#RachelDolezal tells @MLauer
— TODAY (@TODAYshow) June 16, 2015
“I was drawing self-portraits with the brown crayon instead of the peach crayon.” –#RachelDolezal
— TODAY (@TODAYshow) June 16, 2015
“I don’t put on blackface as a performance.” –#RachelDolezal tells @MLauer
— TODAY (@TODAYshow) June 16, 2015
“I would.” –#RachelDolezal on whether she would make the same choices
— TODAY (@TODAYshow) June 16, 2015
#RachelDolezal is a lying opportunist who switches races when its most convenient and politically expedient for her. #orangeroom.
— Carmine Sabia (@CarmineSabia) June 16, 2015
If Bruce Jenner can be trans-gender; Rachel Dolezal ‘trans-racial’, I will now be ‘trans-obese’ & identify myself as ‘thin’.#orangeroom
— Shell236 (@catchthedraft) June 16, 2015
#RachelDolezal is a fraud. She is in denial. She is deceptive. She is not a black woman. #OrangeRoom @TODAYshow
— Sophia A. Nelson (@IAmSophiaNelson) June 16, 2015
#RachelDolezal used a whole lot of words and said a whole lot of nothing, like most liars. “It’s complex…” is a non-answer #OrangeRoom
— Jill Campbell Hodge (@JillCHodge) June 16, 2015
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