Rachel Dolezal On The Today Show: ‘I Identify As Black…I Used The Brown Crayon’

Rachel Dolezal’s ‘Today Show’ Interview

Former NAACP Chapter President and fake black woman Rachel Dolezal broke her silence on “The Today Show” this morning with Matt Lauer and clapped back at people trying to “whitewash” her work.

According to Rachel, she identified as black at an early age by using the brown crayon to draw herself with black curly hair.

Rachel Dolezal, the former NAACP chapter president accused of pretending to be black, tells TODAY’s Matt Lauer in an exclusive live interview that she identifies as black — something she started doing at the age of five.

“I was drawing self-portraits with the brown crayon instead of the peach crayon, and black curly hair,” she told Lauer. But she insisted she never deceived anyone as numerous critics have suggested.

“I do take exception to that because it’s a little more complex than me identifying as black or answering a question of, are you black or white?” she said.

Rachel’s adopted brother turned “son” and son from a previous marriage watched her interview

The trending topic also denied wearing blackface as she’s been accused of doing by her brother.

Dolezal defended her identification as an African American against comparisons to putting on blackface, as some in her family have suggested, as well as many on social media.

“I have a huge issue with blackface. This is not some freak “Birth of a Nation” mockery blackface performance,” she said. “This is on a very real, connected level. How I’ve had to go there with the experience, not just a visible representation, but with the experience.”