According to her very white parents, civil rights leader Rachel Dolezal has been pretending to be black as she’s assimilated into the African-American community over the past 20 years. Dolezal is the president of the Spokane, Wash. NAACP chapter and an adjunct professor at Eastern Washington University. When she applied for the city’s police oversight commission, of which she’s now a member, she put her ethnicity as white, black, and American Indian, according to the Spokesman-Review. But her parents, who Rachel has distanced herself from because they’re white, told BuzzFeed their daughter is Czech, Swedish, and German—with the possibility of American Indian descent.