NAACP’s Rachel Dolezal Fades To Black, Quits After Being Exposed As White

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National Association of the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) leader Rachel Dolezal has reportedly decided to resign from her position amid publicized backlash centered on her lying about race.

Dolezal issued a public statement on Facebook Monday (June 15) with the big news.

“It is with complete allegiance to the cause of racial and social justice and the NAACP that I step aside from the Presidency and pass the baton to my Vice President, Naima Quarles-Burnley. It is my hope that by securing a beautiful office for the organization in the heart of downtown, bringing the local branch into financial compliance, catalyzing committees to do strategic work in the five Game Changer issues, launching community forums, putting the membership on a fast climb, and helping many individuals find the legal, financial and practical support needed to fight race-based discrimination, I have positioned the Spokane NAACP to buttress this transition.” (Rachel Dolezal’s Facebook)

Dolezal also promised to keep her work for human rights going despite leaving the NAACP position.

“Please know I will never stop fighting for human rights and will do everything in my power to help and assist, whether it means stepping up or stepping down, because this is not about me. It’s about justice. This is not me quitting; this is a continuum. It’s about moving the cause of human rights and the Black Liberation Movement along the continuum from Resistance to Chattel Slavery to Abolition to Defiance of Jim Crow to the building of Black Wall Street to the Civil Rights and Black Power Movement to the ‪#‎BlackLivesMatter‬ movement and into a future of self-determination and empowerment.” (Rachel Dolezal’s Facebook)

Reports last week claimed Dolezal had lied about her race and claimed to be African American.

Ms. Dolezal was elected president of the N.A.A.C.P. chapter last year, and had been credited with lifting its finances, visibility and membership. But N.A.A.C.P. officials and other community leaders said she had represented herself as being of partly black ancestry, and she checked boxes for white, black and Native American on her application to the city for the ombudsman commission, where she was appointed by the mayor. Reached by reporters last week at their home in Montana, Ms. Dolezal’s parents — from whom she is estranged — said that in fact, she has no black background. (NY Times)

The iconic organization came to her defense last week amid the social media backlash.

The national NAACP had come to Dolezal’s defense after her name became a hashtag and the reports about her race became widely-known. “One’s racial identity is not a qualifying criteria or disqualifying standard for NAACP leadership,” the group said in a statement on Friday. (Washington Post)

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Written by Cyrus Langhorne

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  1. She does right by black people fuck yall haters idiots. What white woman yiu know speaks like this for blacks. A lie yes, I can easily move on. Bruce Jenner can be a chick…. her message would of rang so much louder as a white woman no need to resign explain yourself say I fucked up I wasn’t trying to offended anyone she does right by blacks

    • You sound very uneducated! Please go to the nearest library in your town! While you’re at it! Do some research on Rachel! Find out what she has done..

      She hasn’t done anything!!!!!!!!! She is just a member of the NAACP! What the F*** do they do for the black community? How many black women and men did she send through college?? NONE How many laws did she help pass in black face?? NONE! Wow! You dumb @ ss black will accept anything thing!!!

        • I’m guessing you don’t know much about me, considering you’re coming at me with this Jessie and Al BS! Move the F*** along I’m not talking about them!

      • I don’t agree so what if she is white there is no rule saying you have to be black to care about the struggles of a people.

      • See that’s where you fucked up. Everytime I write in a rush sone bitch as faggot wants to question my education. You piece of shit I have a dual major political science and clinical psychology and now I am working on a computer science degree so fuck you.

        The fuck do you mean what I know I know a lot because for one I am black, and secondly I am very educated on the subject matter I know what the fuck she did pussy

        I never ever heared a white lady be honest like this. Yeah she fucked up, your bitch as needs to look uo what she stands for. This is not black face this is some chick who may have mental problems.

        No one is denying it, I barley care I know plenty of mixed kids who pass as white and its easy for them to get by with their friends.

        This lady was still getting racist threats, what has your bitch as done for the black. Community? Suck my dick bitch foh coming at me sideways suck a dick bitch

        That lady spoke up for blacks wanted to be black and its still not good enough for your coon as. Suck my dick bro seriously suck my dick

        That lady didn’t have to be black to be in the NCAAP anyway. I have looked uo her work I know what she stands for obviously you dont black face is used to make fun of blacks you moronic piece of shit

        How many blacks did MLK send to college? Fuck r u talking tour just a sensitive bitch

      • See that’s where you fucked up. Everytime I write in a rush sone bitch as faggot wants to question my education. You piece of shit I have a dual major political science and clinical psychology and now I am working on a computer science degree so fuck you.

        The fuck do you mean what I know I know a lot because for one I am black, and secondly I am very educated on the subject matter I know what the fuck she did pussy

        I never ever heared a white lady be honest like this. Yeah she fucked up, your bitch as needs to look uo what she stands for. This is not black face this is some chick who may have mental problems.

        No one is denying it, I barley care I know plenty of mixed kids who pass as white and its easy for them to get by with their friends.

        This lady was still getting racist threats, what has your bitch as done for the black. Community? Suck my dick bitch foh coming at me sideways suck a dick bitch

        That lady spoke up for blacks wanted to be black and its still not good enough for your coon as. Suck my dick bro seriously suck my dick

        That lady didn’t have to be black to be in the NCAAP anyway. I have looked uo her work I know what she stands for obviously you dont black face is used to make fun of blacks you moronic piece of shit

        How many blacks did MLK send to college? Fuck r u talking tour just a sensitive bitch .

        • LOL! She sent those racist threats to herself!! You so educated do your da mn research before you come for me! Lmaooo

        • Dolezal “applied to Howard University to study art with a portfolio of ‘exclusively African-American portraiture,’ the university ‘took her for a black woman’ and gave her a full scholarship.”

          • That her fault. You mad because even a HBC couldn’t mistake you for a worthy black ugh bitch

          • You a weak ass house nigga.. got get them carrots out that white rabbits ass you fucking sucka.. I am not a worthy black? lmao what kind of weak self hating shit is that.. I do not need some dumb white bitch to tell me if I am of worth.. I make my worth you ass… 🙂

          • How this have shit to with MLK ? So you use Red Herrings to rebuttal arguments? MLK was a pacifist not a bitch.. I have too much respect for him to bring him into this dumbass argument..

          • You have respect for MLK? With that logic? That is some early Malcom logic. I didn’t have time to engage, I believe I have adequately explained myself now pussy. In reality I like Malcom better but.. MLK knew that hard line shit would never fly. It was my rebutle to draw a comparison.

          • See thats the difference I would not claim to be like either Malcolm or MLK.. and I am not judging this lady the whole all I said was people have the right to be suspicious of the situation.. I got into the other stuff because you came off disrespectful so I give what I get.. If you do not understand what I stated by now I am man enough to say I do not give a fuck.. We disagree I don’t know what your foundation of knowledge is based and you do not know.. mine either all I do is learn and read on the daily technology and history.. but aye you have the right to believe whatever you wish.. I am not one for the internet disputes.. I got upset and carried away yesterday but I meant what I said…

          • Nah your not a worthy black bitch. Real blacks don’t participate in that reverse racism shit you doing what white people want want to do faggot

          • Reverse bitch I cannot believe you are black I mean it makes no sense.. I guess by running for President Obama did exactly what white people wanted too.. I guess when you speak your mind regardless of race you lose your not black.. bro smh your so fucking lost… its pathetic..

          • Why dosent it make since? Because you define what is black based off what and why? Just as I said idiot you are doing as they want you to. That made no fucking sense about the President. No, the President had the balls to be more of a stero type black guy that the public attached to him. He had the heart to say yeah I did coke. FOH bitch.

          • Black is heritage, black is genetics and black is also a social construct.. but black is not something you can just be because you like it.. Everybody got roots and yea if we go deep enough we can say the original man is from Africa.. but if that’s the case why acknowledge are even say your black.. if it come down to it we are all just human.. But I am proud to be a black man.. and as for Obama It does not take heart to say you did coke bro.. he grew up in a time when everyone was doing drugs.. Most of these politicians have done drugs even George B admitted to doing coke. before he even ran for Pres. I see what level you on now.. so yea very low vibration I do not know what knowledge you have but the way you process it is ass backwards.. more of a childish digression than a forward progression I can see why the disagreement turned out this.. Well I am sure you want understand what I am saying so I am done lol..

        • Your language shows how well educated you are. Read this part of my post carefully esco: Profanity is the attempt of a feeble mind to express itself forcefully. I highly doubt you are as educated as you say. If you had all the schooling you say you do you would be able to carry on a civil argument without all your profane rants. You my friend are a true idiot.

      • You calling someone uneducated, but yet you have no sense on how to use a comma. Blacks? Guess we are all alike. Stupid ppl like you need to do us all a favor, jump off the nearest cliff or bridge. Please!

        • Bahhahahahhahahahahahahahahhahahahahahhahahahaaaaaaaaaa! And????????? Keep working chump!

        • Your like that dude from Kanye’s College Dropout Album you going to have a lot degrees and no fucking life experience congrats.. hope those degrees keep your punks ass warm simpleton, I know plenty of irrelevant dumbassess with college degree’s struggle to make ends meet… blaming everyone but them fucking selves and asking for everyone’s help instead overcoming this fucking world.. College is good but it does not mean shit without life experience and a mind of your own…. if you can’t handle another persons opinion without going to childish tactics like questioning there blackness then you are the ill of society.. Rachel may have done some good in this world I never denied it.. but your weak ass surely will not… I am college too but it does make who I am I do not need to act like I am making history or something its fucking school.. smh get off this damn PC and get some real world experience.. cause this world will eat your dumbass alive.

          • The only reason I even say anything about ny life is to show you how utterly faggity you are. All your assumptions about me are false. How dare you sprak about childish tactics, my opinion was stated and i became white and ignorant to you. The assertion is comical.

            This shit is annoying you don’t know me, I know who you are because you are telling me asswhole. MLK was an educated man as myself and would agree with me that your a chump as pussy telling ME how I’m not black and how I am non educated you have to be fucking kidding me. Fuck your falacious argument, the point is not what your dumb as is making it. If she did bad bitch it dosent take away from all the good she did first off, then what she has done for the black community cannot be taken away simply because some chimp like you said so. Because some chimp has it fucked up who the real house nigga is. The fucking chimp making white man generilzations, engaging in white rhetorical reverse hate you pig headed bitch. Fuck have you done. She taught blacks about blacks where the fuck is your praise for that. No you some piece of shit with racist animosity that’s all.

            Then you assume I have no life experience you son of a bitch. I was born in Newark l, New Jersey. My mother was a whore, an addict. I watched her fuck, I seen her shoot up. My brother and sister were orphans our who lives. We moved to an even more fuck up abusive home with child molestation involved. I worked my ass off to prove to the whites around me I can hang with anybody bitch! I proved to the blacks you can do it too so fuck you!

            Got to be fucking kidding me, I’m smart pussy; college dosent mean you are. WSHH bitches think they got a read on everyone foh boy.

            I believe she fucked up. I also know it came from a place of good intentions.

    • yep well everything done in the dark comes to the light she is exposed for being a deceiver.. a sad one at that who doesn’t deserve the energy, time or attention she is getting.. she is joke its sad.. continuous post about it makes it lose validity.. no one was worried about the NAACP before this.. it was not including all black people in it affairs and when this is over it will be the same group it was.. it was taking money from people like Donald Sterling and Margaret Sanger who called for black genocide and eugenics to rid the world of poor people she called undesirables.. historically it always has been this way it is not that surprising.. she’s a con-artist not the first or the last.. People really falling for this thinking this lady is a discredited saint or something.. if she was she would not have stopped and would not have been living a walking black face lie.. you want look at someone who care about black people look up Cornel West he a real activist that never wavers..

    • She could of said those things, but she did not you can not protect her… if there was a shred of care in her spirit she would have explained herself.. Civil rights is profit driven these days bro.. It has been for decades now.. The NAACP it is not what you think it is bro.

        • you calling black people idiots for being suspicious of a white woman who did not want to be honest about being a part of a civil rights organization as a white woman.. I am not going to beg a white woman to be a champion a civil rights.. with a organization that has been corrupt in the past bro.. I just dont see how this lady is that important.. Her being white should nothing to do with it.. but she made it an issue by lying no else but her.. shes a grown woman and instead being grown and being honest she lied like a child.. its hard to take her serious and its hard deny what people bring up against.. cause she lied she didn’t even come out and say it she had to get caught like a child.. I agree if she was honest in the beginning she’d be welcomed.. but nobody likes liars especially obvious ones.. but maybe your right i just have my doubts..

          • Ok I am back. Ok, the lawsuit. It’s still the same message I said already. She lied, she sued ad a black the person she felt she was. Like I said mental health.. still did more for blacks and fuck uncle tom dj akademiks.

            Not only that,  if the lawsuit us you falacious argument,
             Following the dismissal of Dolezal’s lawsuit (and the Court of Appeals decision), she was ordered to reimburse Howard for a “Bill of Costs” totaling $2728.50. During the case, she was also ordered to pay the university…

            Shut up

            Then, how many black chicks mad with European weave in their hair. Dumb bitches.

            The whites want you to hate on her dumb fucks

            All the money she raised for human rights. What she experienced when she is thought to be black she can’t experience? You keep making white people’s points.

            Fuck yall are an embarrassment to the black race I swear to god you really are and kinda deserve what you get. Mlk would dead spit in your face

            I am not gonna do your homework for you look it up idiots. To question the accomplishments of this highly educated lady basically saying she got it because she was black

            Pieces of shit true piece if shit

          • Bitch fuck you first all I have done more than you probably have thought of.. You dumb ass your getting mad at me cause I stated this white bitch got exposed.. What the fuck does this have to with black women putting horse hair in there fucking heads you idiot.. I have marched for Civil Rights and against GMO’s I am a part of movements trying elevate everybody.. I served four years in the Marine CORP.. and now I manage a IT Department in Jacksonville, Fl.. Your a fucking embarrassment you pushed it to this level like a bitch. I was talking to your dumbass with (respect) , but your fucking mind is so weak you could not rebuttal with respect… I never disrespected this dumbass woman and I know her dumbass family outed for the wrong reasons.. I only stated its fucking weird for a white woman to lie about her race and just to join the NAACP.. At the end of the day your bitch ass is speculating as well…

            I never said I had all the facts on this crazy bitch you fucking dumbass I just gave a fucking opinion.. you weak insignificant son of a bitch.. I am not questioning the ladies accomplishments she’s not the only one with a fucking slip from a University stating she achieved an educational benchmark.. To not question anything is dumb you ass you should always question people in authority whether they work in the private or public sector you ass.. I guess when the Black Panthers got infiltrated they did right by not questioning people..

            How I am making white people points you ass if you believe what Rachel believes race does not exist to you.. That’s the whole Trans anything idea.. Transgender, Transracial, Transwhatever basically means your whatever you wish.. I am more than sure I have been through more than you and this bitch.. My brother was killed by two white men in 2008 in Jacksonville, FL the 100th murder that year.. I lived in Mississippi for half my childhood were people will shoot for looking at white chicks.. but I do not hold racial grudges nor put stereotypes on people for racial identity.. if your black your black you act how you wish but genetically your black.. same if your a man who wants to be a woman.. people can do what they wish but if I think its fucking dumb to label yourself something you are not I can say it.. Why would MLK spit in anyone’s face? Your truly a sad angry bitch ass piece of shit bro.. deuces..

          • Look at what you typed below dumb ass. What you wrote below defeated the fucking argument you made.. if she was ordered to reimburse the fucking school she had to be guilty of something you ass.. Dolezal’s lawsuit was against the school not the other way around.. so she lost her fucking case bitch..
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            >>Not only that, if the lawsuit us you falacious argument, << Dafuq that mean -_-

            Following the dismissal of Dolezal’s lawsuit (and the Court of Appeals decision), she was ordered to reimburse Howard for a “Bill of Costs” totaling $2728.50. During the case, she was also ordered to pay the university…

      • That is a shame that this lady tried to do something positive and all yall see is “She is trying to be black”.

      • She put white black and native-american on her app. Soooo. What’s the problem here?

          • You just anoher miserable black chic. Idgaf bout someone trying to be something else. Bitch wanna be black? Cool. Whatever. All women, no matter wat race are the same: emotionally fucked up creatures. Ou thats including you bitch.

  2. Please get a life. Sure u are either manless or getting cheated on. Or maybe just a young lost girl. So forgive. U just need love. Go night night baby. Reply tomorrow. Not soon as I send the shit. Give me time to sleep and wake up to your reply, damn. Go suck a dick or sometthing baby.

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