Rachel Dolezal's resentment towards her biological parents caused her to mask her true identity. Throughout her documentary she repeatedly justified her African American identity by saying "I feel black." This is just my analysis but I do believe that Rachel believed that her feelings of being black was enough for her to identify herself as an African American woman because she was the only biological child that was mistreated badly along with her adopted African American siblings. Although her mistreatment was not as bad as in comparison to the adopted children that parents took in, she self identified with them because her biological parents made her feel like the black sheep of their immediate family. In the documentary Rachel recalled