this is "nightline." tonight, rachel dolezal sharing her story and raising even more questions. why she won't apologize. what her parents are saying now about how their distance grew as she constructed her new racial identity. and going for gold. ryan shekler made history when he became a pro skateboarder. now this former boy wonder is making millions. in a million dollar industry. tonight we're there as he heads back to the x games for the 15th time. and what if the man cave got a woman's touch? welcome to the shishak, where the vibe is a little different.

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media firestorm over rachel dolezal. she may have resigned her post at the naacp, but the discussion is far from over. and tonight, new information about her past has some accusing her of playing both race cards. here's steve osunsami. >> i definitely. not white. >> reporter: tonight the former naacp leader saying she's black for more than a decade responded to her family with these photos where she's clearly bloonld haired and blue eyed. she was born to two caucasian parents. but over the years she's changed the way she looks. and her story is igniting outrage, offense and a national conversation. but she's firing back saying she identifies as black. in an interview with msnbc with melissa harris perry. >> i have gone there with the experience in terms of being a

mother with two black sons and really owning what it means to experience and live blackness. >> reporter: even as a white child growing up montana was conditioned as black but was learned not to own it. >> out of a young age, a visceral connection with black is beautiful. >> reporter: she says as a child, she preferred to draw picture fs herself using a brown crayon instead of a peach one. but her parents say that's not true. >> this did not happen. this is a fabrication, because we are very in touch with our children as they were growing up. i was a stay-at-home mom. i was in touch with the teachers at school when she went to elementary school. this just simply didn't happen. she didn't ever draw herself as an african-american. >> reporter: they say she's as white as they are. >> it's alarming that rachel continues to make false statements.

and have no acknowledgement that she has been doing that and it's become an issue. >> reporter: the way she styles her hair what some see as the tan in her skin and the deep dive into black academia have many suggesting she's an ethnic fraud. here she is speaking at a civil rights rally. >> like maya angelou says, through all of the struggles through all the pain, we still rise. >> reporter: are you a con artist? >> i don't think so. >> reporter: she walked away from the naacp monday resigning from her leadership position in spokane. colleagues, co-workers and many others in the black community are saying her explanations aren't enough. >> your actions speak much louder than your words. if you didn't want to be a liability to the cause, you would have come kline from the beginning. would you have told the truth from the beginning and people would have accepted her. >> reporter: the controversy blew up when she was caught on camera unable to answer a simple question -- was she black or white? >> are you african-american?

>> i don't, i don't understand the question. of i did tell you that yes, that's my dad. and he was unable to come in january. >> are your parents, are they white? >> i re i -- >> reporter: she certainly has lived the black experience by attending howard university and teaching studies where she gave lectures about black hair. >> when it comes to hair hair is for black women much more than just an aesthetic. much more than just an acute ra rament. >> reporter: she's a talented artist. some of her pieces sell for over $10,000. paintings seen here in this video. >> we don't have any gender diversity, age diversity or ethnicity die virsity. this is what weigh have. we have older white men on our

currency. so what does that do to us as an image, part of our history. how does it affect us psychologically. >> reporter: her reputation for being down with the cause is what led chantelle to write a paper. >> she did tell me she was born in a tipi in montana and that jesus christ was the witness on her birth certificate because shy wasn't she wasn't born in a hospital. >> they were building the house when i was actual lay born. >> reporter: even more details her parents say aren't real. >> she did not grow up in a tipi. it's become a pattern. it's become a habit for her, perhaps to misrepresent us as backward or something like that. >> it's very concerning. >> we're just hoping that the day comes when rachel will face these personal issues she has, with her identity and her integrity. and i believe that would be the beginning then of a new chapter

in her life. >> reporter: there was an ironic moment on her long road to blackness in a lawsuit filed in 2002 when she was then known as rachel ward and was a graduate student, she accused the historically black school of discriminating against her, claiming that the removal of her artwork was to favor african-american students. she now says she's transracial in the way some are transgendered. a comparison that many activists say is ridiculous, explaining that their situation is not a choice. >> the reality of rachel dolezal dolezal, we're often persecuted for living unapologetically in that truth. >> reporter: back home in spokane, civil rights workers are saying she's still lying. >> that's my concern. don't lie. tell the truth.

>> this morning i was at the level of anger that i didn't even want this woman to even land back into spokane and even step foot in our city because i felt like she not only did she single-handedly put a divide in across the nation about race and gender and just all these thing, all these conversations that have been had. >> reporter: on msnbc she said she understands the aerng, especially from black women. >> i would probably be how dare she. they don't know me. >> reporter: she says she's lived the life and knows who she is no matter what anyone else thinks. for might line i'm steve osunsami in atlanta. next skateboarder ryan sheckler went pro as a teen. now a multi-millionaire legend he's heading back to the x games with a stunt not even he's sure he can pull off.

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typical skater punk. the child prodigy started skating as a toddler. going pro at just 13. >> the youngest ever at 13 years old! >> reporter: now 25 he's a skateboarding legend. >> skateboarding to me is pure freedom. i get on my board and i don't have to skate like anyone else. i don't have to try the tricks anyone else is trying. i can clear my head and just skate my game. >> reporter: over a decade-long career this skating wonder secured millions of endorsement deals from gopro to red bull. >> we're here at x games in austin texas, and i'm going to show you guys around. >> reporter: but even with all that fandom money and medals sheckler still isn't satisfies. he lives for the competition.

>> i love going out to a contest and giving the fans what they want to see. >> reporter: today he's in austin texas, getting ready to compete at the x games for an impressive 15 times. ryan winning is a greater obsession now than it was at the beginning. >> you know, i want it i want it and so does everybody else here. >> reporter: with so many younger competitors at his heels, he wants to prove that he's still at the top of the skating game. >> i'm impressed with the youth coming up and it's fun skating with them because they still have rubber band legs and they can take hard slams and get back up and go. i envy them in a way. >> reporter: that didn't sound good. >> and if you fall like really wrong, you can get really hurt. and that's just the risk you take but when you do land it and roll away that adrenaline starts pumping. >> reporter: he wants to start this x games run this extreme trick off the roof but hasn't been able to nail it consistently. >> i just want to land and have

that feeling. crowd will go crazy and you do the rest of the run. >> reporter: years of having the body pounding against the cement has taken a toll. he's broken his elbows ten times. >> people don't know how much willpower that takes to fall really hard and to get back up and try it again. it teaches your brain how to never give up. >> reporter: and that's part of the preparation for this? >> comes down to the moments in the contest where you know that you have to put all of yourself into this one last trick. and maybe you're going to get it and land and win. and maybe you're not going to get it, and that's the risk you take and that's where it's like exciting to knee. i literalize all my tricks i close my eyes and visualize, the landing, how i want it to look to the people you know. this is where it all started, basically. >> reporter: his whole world back in his hometown of san clemente california revolves around skating. >> nice to meet you, dude. i like that board.

>> woo! >> reporter: he's even got his own personal skate park. >> woo! >> reporter: maybe that was a little too fast. can you hold my hand? >> yeah. push off. like this. >> reporter: oh, my gosh. why don't we do it like this ryan this works so much better. i like this. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: an empire has been built on ryan sheckler. he's helped transform this childhood french pastime into a billion dollar industry. how has skating as a business changed? >> skating as a business has change the dramatically. people are getting huge contracts now. >> reporter: like how much? >> skateboarders are makeing millions of dollars. >> reporter: at first it was thousands of dollars as a kid. >> do any of the people get upset that you're beating them and you're a kid? >> yeah. >> do you get ugly looks? >> big guys are just mad.

>> reporter: rye and were's mother gretchen has also been his manager from the very beginning. >> there's not one moment of worry that has ever given me one ounce of peace. >> since i was a little kid, i don't know many parents that would allow their son to break their arm at 3 years old and continue to skate with a cast. >> reporter: is it sometimes a little too close for comfort? >> no, not at all. >> we've worked it out. >> before it was a little hard when she'd call me to tell me it's dinnertime. >> reporter: then the story of the skating boy wonder became a tv show. >> i happened to be winning every contest, and they were all pro contests. there was like this huge whirlwind of craziness, and mtv wanted to be part of it. >> reporter: the mtv show life of ryan brought mainstream fame. but some labeled him a sellout. >> it was weird this vibe i was

getting from other professional skateboarders. the dudes i looked up to were kind of not too psyched on what i was doing. >> reporter: did they feel you were selling out the industry maybe? >> i'm one person you know? one person can't do can't destroy an activity that's purely supposed to be freedom anyways. here it comes. i feel good. i'm nervous for sure. i'm always nervous, but it's like good energy you know. >> reporter: the day of the x games finals in warmups, ryan falls. trying to perfect that dangerous trick off the roof but still, he must present willpower to get back up. >> and the top six will be advancing to the final. he's in that group right now. >> reporter: ryan makes advances to the final round with mom and girlfriend watching. and lands the trick off the roof earning him a bronze

medal. >> came home with a medal, so at the end of the day it's a success. so i'm happy. >> reporter: you've always said that you want to be a legend in the skating world. do you feel like you've made that? do you feel like you've hilt that mark? >> i don't know. i'm just a professional skateboarder that loves it that action lieutenantly loves it. whether that's going for the biggest trick on the course or skating the fastest or, you know, sitting down and doing a three-hour autograph signing. it's whatever is clever at that moment. >> reporter: for "nightline," rachel smith in austin. and next watching the nba finals can require a certain amount of space especially if your team loses. guys have long had their man caves. now women are taking shelter in their own hideouts. tonight why everyone needs a place to get away from it all. whatever "it" may be. abc news "nightline," brought to you by viagra.

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