Rachel Dolezal's Family Infighting Caused by Her Support For Woman Accusing Biological Brother of Child Molestation?
Rachel Dolezal's apparent troubles with her family may stem from her support for a Colorado woman accusing her biological brother of child molestation.
According to the New York Daily News, the NAACP Spokane chapter leader, who made national headlines this week after it was revealed she was born to white parents after long claiming she is black, is convinced her parents are motivated by their desire to damage her credibility.
Joshua Dolezal, 39, was charged in 2013 with four felony counts of sex abuse of a victim who was a minor at the time. The ongoing case in Clear Creek County is set for trial later this summer and is slated for a status conference as early as Monday. Joshua Dolezal is now free on bail.
It's been years since she's directly talked with her parents, Larry and Ruthanne Dolezal.
"What I say to them is, 'I don't give two sh*ts about what you guys think,'" Dolezal told KREM-TV as news of the scandal was spreading late last week. "You're so far done and gone out of my life. ... I do not talk to (them) anymore."
Over the weekend, Rachel Dolezal kept a low profile, only being publicly seen taking the 21-year-old adopted black brother she has been raising as a son to the airport.
In recent times, the African studies instructor is reported to have heavily leaned on her two black adopted brothers to make her claim of being black hold up. She posted a picture of a black couple on her Facebook page, announcing them as her parents and often claimed black family friend Albert Wilkerson as her father.
"I don't like the term African-American," she once said. "I prefer black. If it was asked, I would definitely say I do consider myself to be black."
Meanwhile, Rachel Dolezal is also expected to meet with NAACP officials on Monday concerning the growing controversy.
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