An unusual case of racial identity in Spokane, Wash., has people talking about identity and if it's possible to be born in the "wrong skin."
The parents of Rachel Dolezal, the president of the NAACP chapter in Spokane, claim their daughter is falsely identifying as African American when she is actually caucasian.
"She's chosen not to just be herself but to represent herself as an African American woman or a biracial person. And that's simply not true," Ruthanne Dolezal, Rachel's mother said. Ruthanne told reporters that Rachel grew up with adopted African American siblings and married a black man before divorcing him in 2004.
In response to the news coverage, people have taken to Twitter using the hashtags #transracial, #transraciallivesmatter and #wrongskin.
Some have shown support for Rachel, like user @GodfreyElfwick who said he was born to white parents, but identifies as black.
Others drew a connection between Rachel's experience and transgender identity. "If we are accepting of people switching genders we should also be accepting of people switching races," @LuckySeven30 wrote.
But the majority of people appeared to mock the concept of a "transracial" identity.
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