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riversedge

(70,322 posts)
Fri Jun 12, 2015, 03:46 PM Jun 2015

Black like me? There is lots of information about her youth and family

in this article.



http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2015/06/12/rachel_dolezal_naacp_official_college_professor_accused_of_pretending_to.html

Black like me?

Civil rights activist's ethnicity questioned

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http://www.cdapress.com/news/local_news/article_385adfeb-76f3-5050-98b4-d4bf021c423f.html?mode=image&photo=1
Rachel Dolezal chairs the May 5 meeting of the Spokane Police Ombudsman Commission. This still image is from a video posted on the City of Spokane Office of Police Ombudsman’s government Facebook page. To view the video, visit https://vimeo.com/127088422

Posted: Thursday, June 11, 2015 12:00 am | Updated: 8:17 am, Thu Jun 11, 2015.

JEFF SELLE and MAUREEN DOLAN/jselle@cdapress.com, mdolan@cdapress.com | 95 comments ............

............Dolezal's birth certificate filed in Lincoln County, Montana in 1977 states that Ruthanne is her mother and Lawrence Albert Dolezal is her father.

Ruthanne also clarified that Izaiah, who Dolezal often says is her son, is actually Dolezal's adopted brother. Between 1993 and 1995, Ruthanne and Larry adopted four black infants: Ezra, Izaiah, Zachariah and Esther.

Rachel Dolezal confirmed in a recent phone interview with The Press that Izaiah is one of her adopted brothers.

"He used to be my brother," she said. "But I have full custody of him now."......

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