<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/557af2566bb3f7e4409dba87-680-465/screen shot 2015-06-12 at 10.52.24 am.png" border="0" alt="Rachel Dolezal"><p class="source"><span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKRj_h7vmMM">Youtube screenshot</a></span></p></img></div><p></p></div></div>Rachel Dolezal, the head of a local National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) chapter in Spokane, Washington has resigned from her position <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/naacp-leader-in-washington-state-who-pretended-to-be-black-2015-6">following controversial reports</a> that she was pretending to be black. </p><p><span>Dolezal</span> announced her resignation in a<a href="https://www.facebook.com/spokane.naacp/posts/1623781377868883"> lengthy Facebook post</a>, writing that her decision to step down had been influenced by the "unexpected shift" in dialogue <span>to her "personal identity in the context of defining race and ethnicity."</span></p>    <div class="margin-top">        <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/drinking-president-obama-beer-white-house-chef-2015-5">Here's what it's like to have a drink with President Obama </a></h3>        <div>            <div>    <script src="http://player.ooyala.com/v3/6e12e8b3387a44daacfb73afba25a76e"></script>    <div class="ooyala-video-player" data-video-autoplay="false" data-video-id="g5N2k1dTpbqGHAWRP2frbDM_g03Mu_ud" data-player-variable="ooyalapopvideo" id="ooyalaplayer_popvideo" style="width:1280px;height:720px"></div>    <script>    if (typeof RunFunctions === 'undefined') { var RunFunctions = []; }     RunFunctions.push(function()    {         var ooyalapopvideo = OO.Player.create('ooyalaplayer_popvideo', 'g5N2k1dTpbqGHAWRP2frbDM_g03Mu_ud',{ autoplay: 'false' });     });    </script>    <noscript><div>Please enable Javascript to watch this video</div></noscript></div>        </div>        <script>(function() { function createPlayer() { OO.ready(function() { RunFunctions.forEach(function(ooyalaFunction) { ooyalaFunction(); }); RunFunctions = [];}); } createPlayer(); }()); </script>    </div>

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The civil rights leader pretending to be black just resigned

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Youtube screenshotRachel Dolezal, the head of a local National Association for the Advancement of Colored People NAACP chapter in Spokane, Washington has resigned from her position following controversial reports that she was pretending to be black.  Dolezal announced her resignation in a lengthy Facebook post, writing that her decision to step down had been influenced by the unexpected shift in dialogue to her personal identity in the context of defining race and ethnicity.

The civil rights leader pretending to be black just resigned

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