Based on her old photo, it's clear that she had her hair styled to look more "biracial" and probably has a sprayed-on tan because her skin clearly was paler when she was young.

She's been sarcastically compared to John Howard Griffin, a white man who darkened his skin then pretended to be a black man in the South in the 1950s. His book was called "Black Like Me."

Also turns out that Cleaver may have committed some phony hate crimes.

http://www.cdapress.com/news/local_news/article_385adfeb-76f3-5050-98b4-d4bf021c423f.html

http://pjmedia.com/eddriscoll/2015/06/12/black-like-me-the-rachel-dolezal-story/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Like_Me