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In reply to the discussion: Is Rachel Dolezal the first known transracial person? [View all]csziggy
(34,189 posts)8. She was about 16 before her parents began adopting interracially
Born in Troy, Mont., on Nov. 12, 1977, to conservative white Christian missionaries, Dolezal had one sibling, a brother Joshua, until she was 16 years old. Then in 1993, the Dolezals began adopting four black children: Zach from Haiti and Ezra, Izaiah and Esther from elsewhere in the United States.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/amid-controversy-rachel-dolezal-resigns-as-head-of-spokanes-naacp-chapter/2015/06/15/b0ca8690-129c-11e5-9ddc-e3353542100c_story.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/amid-controversy-rachel-dolezal-resigns-as-head-of-spokanes-naacp-chapter/2015/06/15/b0ca8690-129c-11e5-9ddc-e3353542100c_story.html
Because of the number of lies she has told I would not trust any claims she has made about her early life. From the same article: "But with each passing year, they said, her biography seemed to grow more twisted. In 2013, she told the Eastern Washington University student newspaper that she was born in a teepee, hunted food with a bow and was beaten by her parents with a baboon whip." Her adopted brothers have said these statements are not true.
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Michael had a skin condition which makes for pale patches, the man never ever denied his heritage
Bluenorthwest
Jun 2015
#73
oh i didn't see that thread, another aspect to consider! thanks for the link.
m-lekktor
Jun 2015
#43
I think you're being a little cruel to her. Mentally, she is confused and troubled.
BlueJazz
Jun 2015
#64
That term makes me feel as if some are portraying this as something other than a choice.
NCTraveler
Jun 2015
#30
No I read a book about a man in the late 1890,'s who was white but said he was
kimbutgar
Jun 2015
#58
Hardly the first, but in general it has gone in the other direction and is called "passing"
Hekate
Jun 2015
#60
Sure start arguing over 1/8's. You have an agenda and are simply sticking your fingers in ears.
JanMichael
Jun 2015
#93
The thread was asking a question about people that lived outside of their ethnicity.
JanMichael
Jun 2015
#96
Multiracial people have to figure out this out for themselves and always have had to
gollygee
Jun 2015
#98