*NOTE* this post deals with race, a topic some people may find offensive.
Okay, before we get started, take a look at these two pictures of women.
Both are middle aged women, nothing wrong there. Now what if we told you they are the same person. The second photo was taken a few years ago, the first one not too long ago. These picture are of Rachel Dolezal, a women who is a civil rights leader and lives in Washington. The problem here is not that she looks different. It's that she's been passing herself off as African American for years.
Her parents recently confirmed that she was Caucasian, and she went even farther then just claiming she was African American.
She has an adopted brother from Africa that she has been telling everyone is her son, and a ACTUAL African friend she claims is her father.
People are outraged that this women is pretending to be a race she's not. It's not a matter of what race she is pretending to be, it's a matter of the fact that she lied for hears. There have been many speculations about why she did this, but she has not spoken out at this time.
The investigation allegedly started after she filled out a form for the city and wrote down her race as African American. She doesn't consider her birth parents her "real" parents, but they were able to produce a birth certificate proving that she was, in fact, their child. Her parents said that this whole thing started when she divorced her black husband in 2004. They also say that a factor in this may be the fact that her parents adopted four African children.
The investigation is not about what race she identifies herself as, it's about the fact that she violated the city's ethic rules by filling in the wrong race on the form.