Rachel Dolezal is a white person born to white parents.

While this may not be a big deal to many, here's the thing: she is the former leader of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in Spokane, Washington. She had to resign from her post when she became subject to a nationwide conversation about race and identity. The speculation regarding her race came in June when her parents told the press that despite her involvement in her cause, she was, in fact, Caucasian.

Her parents even showed press photos of a pale woman with blonde hair that stood very much in contrast to Dolezal's current dark skin and dark curls. These photos led to questions regarding her legitimacy in her post as civil-rights activist and leader and made a career over and identity that was false. As noted by Mashable, she is not only an activist with NAACP, she also attended Howard University and later taught African studies at a local college.

However, despite her involvement with NAACP, Dolezal finally admitted on "The Real" daytime talk show that she is, indeed, a white woman born to white parents.

"Why not give me the right to identify, how I identify? I think we're all entitled to be exactly who we are and to identify as such," she asked the hosts.

"I acknowledge that I was biologically born white to white parents, but I identify as black," she admitted.

One of the show's moderators spoke, telling Dolezal, "I think it's kind of hard because you're not black. So when you identify with it, there's a disconnect... You weren't born black, so when you say you're black, it makes it hard for people to understand where you're coming from."

Her admission on "The Real" was the first time that Dolezal admitted publicly that she was, in fact, white. However, she explained her choice by saying, "Sometimes how we feel is more powerful then how we are born."

"Blackness can be defined as philosophical, cultural, biological, a lot of different things for a lot of different people. I do think you have to walk the walk if that's how you are," she also added.

She has carried her "racial charade" as Mirror UK put it, for years, before she was outed by her parents, but that did not faze her. Instead, shared that she's considered herself black since she was five but had her Caucasian identity "thrust" upon her.

What do you think about Dolezal's decision to identify herself as "black" rather than the Caucasian she really is?