Dr. Phil doesn’t buy Dolezal pitch

Rachel Dolezal told popular television talk show host Dr. Phil that she continues identify as an African-American. Her insistence came even as Dr. Phil, in a show taped earlier and aired Monday afternoon, urged her to be truthful. “You pretended to be black. You perpetrated a lie that upset a lot of people. You agree with that, right?” Dr. Phil asked. Dolezal responded with “No … It’s not something that I perpetrated or faked. It’s just me being me.”

She has claimed to be “transracial,” to explain how she distanced herself from her upbringing as a Caucasian girl in northwestern Montana to later identify as an African-American woman who would become the president of the Spokane chapter of the NAACP. Dolezal, who recently released her memoir , has struggled to find work in the aftermath of her 2015 unmasking/ SR staff reports . More here.