Almost five months after being accused of misrepresenting her race, former Spokane, Washington, NAACP leader admitted on an appearance on the television show, The Real, that she was biologically white and was born to white parents, according to an report on people.com.

Rachel Dolezal said on the show, “I acknowledge that I was biologically born white to white parents, but I identify as black.”  She added that she had viewed herself as being black since she was very young.  She also said other people began to identify her as biracial as early as 1998, and that she had experienced being identified as black by police officers when she received traffic citations.

“I wouldn’t say I’m African American, but I would say I’m black, and there’s a difference in those terms,” said Dolezal previously in an interview with Vanity Fair magazine.  “I was drawing self-portraits with the brown crayon instead of the peach crayon.  That’s how I was portraying myself.”

She has also said in an interview on Today, that she identified herself as human in a racial sense, and black in a cultural sense.

Dolezal lost her job as president of the local chapter of the NAACP in Spokane, as well as her position as a part-time teacher at Eastern Washington University because of the scandal earlier in June of this year.

Co-hosts of The Real, Tamar Braxton, Loni Love, Tamera Mowry-Housley, Adrienne Bailon and Jeannie Mai spoke with Dolzeal concerning her statement that she identified as being black.  Mowry-Houlsey asked Dolzeal what being black meant to her, and she replied, “sometimes how we feel is more powerful than how we’re born, and blackness can be defined as philosophical, cultural, biological, you know, it’s a lot of different things to a lot of different people.”

Co-host Loni Love did not seem too impressed with Dolezal’s decision.  “Let me tell you something: I’m black,” said Love on the show.  “I can’t be you. I can’t reverse myself. Let’s check you, Rachel. If the police stopped me, you could throw that off and show that nice fine hair up under, and you might get away. I may not. I may not even make in the jail.”

Braxton quizzed Dolezal as to whether she felt she had deceived anyone by saying she was black.  Dolezal replied, “No, I don’t.  Don’t we all have the right to be exactly who we are?”