A US civil rights group leader outed by her parents for pretending to be black has spoken after her racial misrepresentation went viral online.

Rachel Dolezal, Spokane’s National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People (NAACP) Chapter President, said in response to those accusing her of lying about her race:

"I don't give two shi*s what you guys think. You are so far done, and out, of my life," according to the Daily Mail.

Ms Dolezal is also a part-time Africana Studies professor at Eastern Washington University.

She also told KREM:

"I actually don't like the term African-American. I prefer black, and I would say that if I was asked I would definitely say that yes I do consider myself to be black."

"It’s more important for me to clarify that with the black community and with my executive board than it really is to explain it to a community that, quite frankly, don’t really understand the definitions of race and ethnicity," she said.

It's expected Ms Dolezal will still lead the NAACP meeting next week as per usual.

But her parents say she has been misleading people for years.

View photos A family photo shows Rachel Dolezal’s family at her wedding reception in Jackson, Mississippi on May 21, 2000. Ruthanne and Larry Dolezal identified the people in the photo as: Back row: Ruthanne (mother), Kevin & Rachel, Larry (father), Peggy & Herman (Larry’s parents); Front Row, our (Larry and Ruthanne’s) adopted children: Ezra, Izaiah, Esther and Zachariah. More





In an interview with Buzzfeed, Dolezal’s father Larry said his daughter had been passing herself off as an ethnic minority but she was born Caucasian.

Her brother, Izalah, who is black, was adopted.

View photos Rachel Dolezal. More

“She’s our birth daughter and we’re both of European descent. We’re puzzled and it’s very sad,” Mr Dolezal told Buzzfeed.

The family claim she began to ‘diguise herself’ in 2006 or 2007.

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