Former Spokane, Washington NAACP chapter president Rachel Dolezal appears on NBC News on June 16, 2015. (Screenshot) 
 
 Former civic activist Rachel Dolezal went from claiming she is black to questioning whether she is actually part of a white family in an interview aired on Tuesday night with NBC News host Savannah Guthrie. 
 
 “I haven’t had a DNA test. There’s been no biological proof that Larry and Ruthanne are my biological parents,” said Dolezal, referring to the couple who exposed her last week, resulting in widespread criticism and her decision to step down as the head of the Spokane chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). 
 
 “There’s a birth certificate that has your name and their names on it,” Guthrie replied, over footage of the document. 
 
 “I’m not necessarily saying that I can prove they’re not,” Dolezal said. “But I don’t know that I can actually prove they are. I mean, the birth certificate is issued a month and a half after I’m born. And certainly there were no medical witnesses to my birth.” 
 
 A 2012 profile of Dolezal stated that she was “born in a teepee.” but her parents revealed last week that she is actually of Czech, Swedish and German descent. Dolezal has continued to argue that she is black. 
 
 “Nothing about being white describes who I am,” she said. “So, what’s the word for it? The closest thing that I can come to is, if you’re black or white, I’m black. I’m more black than I am white.” 
 
 While she has “experimented” with her hair, she told Guthrie, she has not altered her skin. 
 
 “Some days I might spray on bronzer, if I want to get a glow,” Dolezal said. “Other days, I don’t.” 
 
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 The parents of Rachel Dolezal, the former Washington state NAACP leader pretending to be black, say they have been estranged from their daughter for years and believe she made up her background as a way to hurt them. 
 
 “I think Rachel has tried to damage her biological family and those kind of claims, as false as they were, seem to serve her purposes in her mind,” her mother, Ruthanne Dolezal, said Monday on TODAY. 
 
 A few hours later, Rachel Dolezal resigned from her position as president of the NAACP chapter in Spokane, Washington. The move followed national scrutiny over her claims to be partially black, as well as stories she told of being born in a teepee and growing up hunting for food with a bow and arrow. 
 
 Both parents insist they never sought out publicity or raised red flags about their daughter. Instead, they said they were approached less than a week ago by a newspaper, the Coeur d'Alene Press, assumedly as “part of some investigative reporting,” Lawrence Dolezal said. 
 
 “Somehow, they got wind of us as her parents as a possibility and so they contacted us to see if we were in fact her parents,” he said. “We taught our children, as we raised all six of them, 'Tell the truth. Always be honest.' So we weren’t going to lie, we told the truth. Rachel is our birth daughter.” 
 
 Dolezal's Montana birth certificate states she was born to Lawrence and Ruthanne Dolezal, who say they are white. 
 
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 “We’re puzzled,” Lawrence Dolezal said when asked why his daughter lied about her background. His wife suggested their daughter, who is also a professor in the Africana Education Department at Eastern Washington University, may have wanted to boost her credentials as a black activist and educator. 
 
 Rachel Dolezal, 37, had scheduled to address the uproar at a NAACP chapter meeting Monday night but the meeting was postponed over the weekend. On Monday, the chapter posted her resignation statement to its Facebook page. 
 
 Dolezal called it an honor to be involved in Spokane’s social justice movement but said she had to step down because “the dialogue has unexpectedly shifted internationally to my personal identity in the context of defining race and ethnicity.” She did not provide any more details about that particular issue. 
 
 Dolezal's parents on TODAY denied charges they were abusive parents, calling the claims a “dramatic change” to what they knew of Rachel growing up, who always wanted to introduce them to her friends. 
 
 “We still hold out hope that we’ll be able to be reconciled someday,” Lawrence Dolezal said. 
 
 His wife added: “And we hope that Rachel will get the help that she needs to deal with her identity issues. Of course we love her, and we hope that she will come to a place where she knows and believes and speaks the truth.” 
 
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– The Rachel Dolezal story got even stranger during an NBC interview last night in which, as Raw Story puts it, she went "full-scale birther" on herself. Asked by Savannah Guthrie whether she thought it was misleading to identify as black, Dolezal responded, "I haven't had a DNA test. There's been no biological proof that Larry and Ruthanne [Dolezal] are my biological parents." When reminded that her name and their names are on her birth certificate, Dolezal said she couldn't prove they're not her parents, but "I don't know that I can actually prove they are. I mean, the birth certificate is issued a month and a half after I'm born. And certainly there were no medical witnesses to my birth." "I definitely am not white," Dolezal continued. "Nothing about being white describes who I am. The closest thing that I can come to is if—if you're black or white, I'm black. I'm more black than I am white." Dolezal said she hasn't changed her skin color, but she does spray on bronzer some days. It isn't clear whether there were any "medical witnesses" to her birth, or whether she really believes her parents may not be her parents. Dolezal has claimed to have been born in a tepee, but her uncle tells the New York Times that isn't true. "Larry and Ruthanne were kind of the quintessential Jesus people, hippies, back to nature, and they set up a tepee and lived in it for a year," he says. "Drove my parents crazy, but nobody was born in the tepee."