Parody/Spoof Rachel Dolezal told NBC's TODAY show she began identifying herself as black as early as the age of 5 years old, drawing pictures of herself with dark, kinky hair and dark skin.
"I identify as black," she said. She said her hair style and light brown skin -- "I didn't stay out of the sun" -- prompted people to assume she was black. She acknowledged that she didn't correct people who made the assumption.
It was her first interview since news stories went viral last week detailing how Dolezal's parents say she is white.
On Monday night, Dolezal's parents told CNN that when she was growing up, she gave no indication that she might want to take on a new racial identity. Rachel Dolezal's World Crumbles After Racial Identity Flap
Rachel Dolezal carefully constructed a life as a black civil rights activist in the last decade in the inland Northwest, but that world is falling apart following the ... Rachel Dolezal, fomer NAACP chapter president.

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