Ms
Dolezal cited a "self-identification with the black experience",
explaining that as a child she used the "brown crayon instead of the
peach crayon" when drawing self-portraits.
She said she has lived a "life of survival" and all the decisions she has made, including the decision to self-identify this way, were "to survive".
She said she has lived a "life of survival" and all the decisions she has made, including the decision to self-identify this way, were "to survive".