The ladies of The View have added their voice to the debate over white former National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) leader Rachel Dolezal. The verdict: she's all right by them.

Whoopi Goldberg led what amounted to a defense of the race-faker's deception, with Rosie Perez and new co-host Raven-Symone appearing to be willing to support Dolezal, as well.

'If she wants to be black, she can be black,' Goldberg said Monday.

Their view: The ladies of The View have added their voice to the debate over white former NAACP leader Rachel Dolezal. The verdict: she's all right by them

Whoopi seemed swayed by Dolezal's apparent honest desire to experience life as a black person.

'She definitely owned it,' Goldberg said. 'She's passing as this woman for over five years. If this b**** don't know by now what's it's like, she's never going to know.'

Rosie Perez appeared to agree but wasn't as quick to endorse Dolezal's extreme methods.

'Another part that people had a problem with her is also that she was speaking to a lot of young black youths and telling them, 'I know how you feel. I've been through blah, blah, blah'. She doesn't know. You can't know,' Perez said.

The panel's newest addition, Raven-Symone, after appearing to think long and hard, added: 'Black women straighten their hair every day. Black woman do it all the time... White women can't do the same thing?'

Okay by Whoopi: 'She definitely owned it,' Goldberg said. 'She's passing as this woman for over five years. If this b**** don't know by now what's it's like, she's never going to know'

Now and then: Dolezal's parents released photos last week of their daughter when she was young, right. On the Today show she said she was not identifying as black at the time the teenage photos were taken

In an unapologetic Today interview on Tuesday, Dolezal said she would do nothing differently if her younger self knew what she knows now, claiming that her life has been about making choices for her 'survival'.

When asked by Today host Matt Lauer if presenting herself as a black woman for years was akin to wearing blackface, she insisted that was not the case.

'I have a huge issue with blackface,' she said. 'This is not some freak "Birth of a Nation" mockery blackface performance. This is on a very real, connected level. I've had to go there with the experience, not just a visible representation.'

She added that she first started seeing herself as black when she was just five.

'I was drawing self portraits with the brown crayon rather than the peach crayon,' she said. 'That was how I was portraying myself.'

But when Lauer held up a photo of Dolezal as a teen - with blonde hair and a fair complexion - she conceded that she looked like a white person and that she was not identifying as black at the time.

Her estranged parents, who outed her as white last week, have previously said that she began 'disguising' herself as black around 2007.