When I first heard of this, I figured if Bruce Jenner could do it, why not her? I guess that's how they look at it, too. Asked about her race, she said:
Since we're all of African descent, I guess we can all get along now, eh?Dolezal said, "That question is not as easy as it seems. There's a lot of complexities ... and I don’t know that everyone would understand that." Later, she said, "We're all from the African continent," an apparent reference to scientific studies tracing the origin of human life to east Africa.