Former NAACP Chapter President Rachel Dolezal has been under a lot of fire for identifying as black, when she’s indeed white!
In a recent interview with NBC News, Dolezal, who has black sons was asked the question on whether her colored kids can identify as white. Watch here response below at timeline 3:56!
According to NBC News, Transracial adoptees and their allies are speaking out about Rachel Dolezal’s and other’s use of the term “transracial” in conversations wrestling with her identity, arguing that it does not mean choosing to change one’s race, rather it means the adoption of a child, usually a child of color, by a family of another race, usually a Caucasian family.
“Many members of the White press have appropriated and co-opted a deeply meaningful, historical term – transracial – from the adoptee community,” Kevin H. Vollmers, Executive Director of Gazillion Strong, told NBC News. “They’re treating ‘transracial’ as though it’s a new thing. As a transracial adoptee, this is, at the very least, a slap in the face.”