Embattled ex-NAACP chapter president Rachel Dolezal continued her defense tour Tuesday afternoon during a sit down with MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry, who asked Dolezal if she’s a con artist.
“I don’t think so, you know.” Dolezal responded in a preview of the interview. “I don’t think that anything that I have done with regards to the movement, my work, my life, my identity — I mean it’s all been very thoughtful and careful.”
She continued: “Sometimes decisions have been made for survival reasons or to protect people that I love.”
Dolezal, former president of the Spokane, Washington, chapter of the civil rights group, has faced intense scrutiny and public ridicule for saying she is African-American while her Montana birth certificate identifies her as Caucasian.