Call them the debunking Dolezals. Following Rachel Dolezal’s resignation from her post as president of the Spokane, Wash., NAACP bankruptcy on Monday, June 15, the activist’s estranged parents, Larry and Ruthanne Dolezal, spoke out to Us Weekly and other media outlets in regards to the fact regarding their daughter’s background.

The couple sat with Fox News’ Megyn Kelly to transparent up any claims made by their daughter, who created an uproar last week after it used to be published that she had lied about her race. “No, she wasn’t born in a teepee,” her father mentioned on The Kelly File. “She used to be born in this room next to us here in our home.” His daughter has also claimed that she grew up looking for food with a bow and arrow. “No,” Larry responded of when the family lived in South Africa. “But I did.”

Her mom printed how she and her husband discovered their daughter’s fabrications about her ethnicity. “It was round 2007, when we first saw a newspaper article from the Spokane, Wash., area, the place Rachel had represented herself to the press as being African-American or biracial,” Ruthanne mentioned. “She’s not telling the truth.”

Dolezal stepped down from her post on Monday in the wake of revelations that she had lied about her race. “The dialogue has unexpectedly shifted the world over to my personal identification within the context of defining race and ethnicity,” Rachel wrote in an extended resignation message on Facebook. “I have waited in deference while others expressed their feelings, beliefs, confusions and even conclusions – absent the full story.”

On Tuesday, June 16, Dolezal appeared on the Today show to proportion her aspect of the tale. “I identify as black,” she told Matt Lauer. “This is going back to an overly early age with my self-identification with the black experience as a very young kid… I might say about Five years previous. I used to be drawing self-portraits with the brown crayon as an alternative of the peach crayon, and black curly hair, you know. That used to be how I was portraying myself.”

Her parents had been the ones to substantiate last week that Rachel was once now not of African-American descent. “The reason why we spoke to the click about Rachel’s ethnicity was as a result of she used to be beneath investigation from law enforcement in Spokane for claims that she had hate crime mail within the NAACP mailbox,” Ruthann Dolezal explained. “I think Rachel has some very serious issues.”

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“That led the Coeur D’Alene press into calling us to see if shall we validate her claims or not to be African-American,” Larry added. “And we said, neatly, no, we’re both Caucasian, we’re of European descent. She’s our birth daughter.”

The parents advised Us in their first interview following the resignation that their whole family had been affected by Rachel’s lies for years. “It’s been a relief to her brothers who she told ‘don’t blow my cover,’ so that they’re more or less, now they don’t have to walk on eggshells if they're in her space,” Ruthanne advised Us. “We were bring to a halt by means of Rachel all touch so it’s a sad situation however in a way it’s perfect for everybody including Rachel if things are out in the open and people are being honest about what the truth is.”

The couple said they had been simply as befuddled as the remainder of the sector by way of the location. “We don’t know,” Larry informed Us of Rachel mendacity about her race. “That baffles us up to someone. She’s the only one that may give an explanation for that.”

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