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Rachel dolezal, here she is in an naacp photo, and here she is in a childhood photo her parents made public claiming she is falsely portraying herself as black. abcs kendis gibson with the story tonight. >> reporter: tonight, the parents of rachel dolezal, the embattled president of spokanes naacp, speaking out about her race and credibility. dolezals white biological parents claiming their daughter has been lying for years about her ethnicity. >> the deception part of it, her saying, i am an af...

About. stephanie elam has more on the woman behind this puzzling controversy. >> reporter: it seems like an easy question. >> are your parents, are they white? >> reporter: but for rachel dolezal it was enough to make her run from a reporter. she is professor of africana studies. for years the 37-year-old has claimed shes black. reinforcing that belief by posting pictures like this one from the spokane naacp facebook page. the caption underneath says her father presumably this black man, will be...

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Watch on fairness in police work. >> whatever they say really -- i wish could say doesnt affect me at all. unfortunately people might listen to them. or give them a platform that they dont deserve. but i dont have anything to say to them. >> so what the naacp made a statement about this. what have they said? >> well they say, anderson that racial identity is not a qualifying or disqualifying factor in leadership. they also say they stand by her record of advocacy. anderson. >> all right. thank y...

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A young girl. her estranged parents say that she is white. and this is what dozall looks like today. cnns stephanie elam has the story. >> reporter: it seems like an easy question -- >> are your parents -- are they white? >> reporter: but for rachel dozall it was enough to make her run from a local reporter. she is president of the spokane chapter of the naacp and professor of africana studies at eastern washington university. for years, the 37-year-old has claimed shes black, reinforcing that b...

On capitol hill. controversy where a prominent civil rights leader says shes black but now her parents, theyve outed her as white. rachel dolezal is head of the spokane, washington naacp. shes now coming under fire for allegedly pretend took african-american and doing so for years. now her parents spoke out about the situation on her this morning. >> were just saying that we are, were confirming the truth. we are her birth parents. >> she has not explained to us why she is doing what shes doin...

Chapter of the naacp, a well known member of the african am african-american community. >> reporter: it seems like an easy question sn. >> are your parents, are they white? >> >> she is president of the spokane chapter of the naacp and professor of afrikaner studies at eastern university. for years the 37-year-old has claimed she is black. the caption underneath says her father presumably this black man will be a special guest at one of their events. but this is the birth certificate cnn obtaine...

Questions, then, what kind of questions could be put forth in terms of reversing the paradigm you spoke about in regard to passing. in this case heres a white woman seeking to identify with the broader community of african-american people. if shes not being proved to derive certain benefit from that, being the head of the naacp certainly is one but trying to represent the interests of those people is there leeway to say its kind of jacked up but we understand the impulse? >> i cant personally gi...