Rachel Dolezal Once Said She Would Be ‘Nervous’ Going into All-White Tea Party Crowd

Rachel Dolezal, the Spokane NAACP official who had been portraying herself as black when she was actually white, once talked about how uncomfortable she would feel in an all-white tea party rally.

National Review flagged comments Dolezal made to The New York Times back in 2010 about the rise of tea party rallies across the country.

The Times article noted she reacted “with trepidation” to the tea party movement. This is the relevant passage:

Though raised in a conservative family, Ms. Dolezal, who is multiracial, said she could not imagine showing her face at a Tea Party event. To her, what stands out are the all-white crowds, the crude depictions of Mr. Obama as an African witch doctor and the signs labeling him a terrorist. “It would make me nervous to be there unless I went with a big group,” she said.

Dolezal’s parents said they don’t really know why she’s pretending to be black, and Twitter’s gone over and beyond to mock her.

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