Rachel Dolezal told adopted black brother: "Don't blow my cover"
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Toronto Sun ^ | June 13, 2015 | Postmedia Network
Rachel Dolezal told her adopted black brother not to out her as a white woman, Buzzfeed news reports.
“She just told me, ‘Over here, I’m going to be considered black, and I have a black father. Don’t blow my cover,’” Ezra Dolezal, 22, told the Buzzfeed.
She also told him to tell people that she and her adopted black siblings are blood relations.
Rachel, the president of the Spokane, Wash., branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, made international headlines last week when she was outed as a white woman with two white parents.
The NAACP has stood behind her, even after news outlets started running photos of the usually curly-haired and caramel-skinned African studies professor showing her natural pale complexion and straight, golden locks.
Ezra told Buzzfeed that Rachel didn’t give “any logical explanation” for her unusual request, but that she’d fallen out with their parents and wanted to start a new life elsewhere
“But she took it to the ultimate extreme,” Ezra said. “Not only did she move out to Spokane, but she created a whole new identity for herself.”
She started to change herself physically about six years ago, he told Buzzfeed, perming her hair and using skin products to appear “darker and darker.” She knew how to keep up her look because she’d spent years doing her adopted black sister’s hair, Ezra said.
But the internal changes started much earlier than that, he said, when Rachel studied fine art at Howard University.
“Because of her work in African-American art, they thought she was a black student during her application, but they ended up with a white person.”
She became isolated and angry, and that anger turned to hate — for white people.
“It’s like what psychologists call self-hating,” Ezra said. “She had no reason not to like herself being white. She was an awesome artist and she could have accomplished everything she did, if she had stayed exactly the same.”
That hate extended to their parents, Ezra said, whom Rachel believes are racist and abusive. She managed to obtain legal custody of one of her siblings, Izaiah in 2010, and now passes him off as her birth son.
Ezra admits his parents were harsh and used corporal punishment, though he denies Rachel’s allegations they were abusive. And he was once close with his sister, he now describes her ruse as a “slap in the face” to African-Americans.
“She puts dark makeup on her face and says she's black,” he said. “It’s basically blackface.” |
