Rachel Dolezal ‘identified with being black’ age 5

The woman who resigned as the head of a local NAACP branch after her parents revealed she was white said that she started identifying as black around the age of five, when she drew self-portraits with a brown crayon, and said she “takes exception” to the contention she tried to deceive people.

Rachel Dolezal said on NBC’s Today Show that some of the discussion about her has been “viciously inhumane”.

Dolezal carefully constructed a life as a black civil rights activist in the last decade in the inland Northwest.