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Netflix is releasing a documentary titled 'The Rachel Divide' on April 27
The documentary is about Rachel Dolezal, 40, who identifies as a black woman
Dolezal is a former NAACP leader who was unmasked as a white woman in 2015
The woman from Spokane, Washington, caused controversy when she compared being 'transracial' to someone who is transgender
Her son Franklin is featured in the documentary imploring his mother to stop with all of the publicity

Published: 14:35 EDT, 8 March 2018 | Updated: 18:47 EDT, 8 March 2018

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Rachel Dolezal, the former NAACP leader who pretended she was black only to be unmasked as a white woman in 2015, is appearing in a new Netflix documentary against her son's wishes.

Dolezal, 40, from Spokane, Washington, sparked outrage when her parents revealed she was posing as a black woman.

Netflix released the documentary's trailer on Wednesday and was criticized for spending money to promote someone who is 'fraudulent and problematic'.

Dolezal's teenage son Franklin, who is biracial, is featured in the trailer where he implores his mother to stop publicizing her beliefs.

'I resent some of her choices and I resent some of the words she has spoken in interviews,' Franklin said during the documentary's trailer.

Rachel Dolezal, 40, is featured in a new Netflix documentary titled 'A Rachel Divided'. The former NAACP leader considers herself black even though she is a white woman

Her son Franklin appears in the trailer and does not understand why his mother has to make the documentary. He tells a producer that he 'resents some of her choices'

Dolezal explained to her son that she is trying to 'rebuild' something that was destroyed

A Twitter user on Wednesday called Dolzale 'fraudulent and problematic' after it was revealed that Netflix produced a documentary about her life

Dolezal is a former civil rights activist and African studies instructor.

In June 2015, her parents revealed her actual heritage and said their daughter was misrepresenting her race posed as a black woman.

In a BBC interview last year, Dolezal claimed ethnicity is not biological and compared being 'transracial' to being transgender.

She then released a book titled 'In Full Color' and people said she was using her 'white privilege' to make her arguments.

The new film, which Netflix describes as an 'intimate documentary', is titled 'The Rachel Divide' and features interviews with her son.

'I really do not want to focus on this for the rest of my life,' son Franklin said at the beginning of the trailer.

'When something gets destroyed, you have to rebuild it,' Dolezal said. 'You can't just pretend that it didn't happen and everything gets fixed.'

Dolezal was outed as a white woman by her parents in June 2015 after she lied about being of African-American descent

Dolezal then appeared on multiple talk shows talking about why she believed she was black. One of her most famous interviews was with BBC where she called herself 'transracial' and compared her situation to someone who is transgender. Pictured is her with her adopted brother, Izaiah Dolezal, (left) and her son Franklin Moore (right) in June 2015

Dolezal is also a mother of a two-year-old son named Langston Attickus. He's named after a famous black poet, author and activist. This is her with her son in March 2017

But her son appeared unhappy during the trailer as he realized the news about his controversial mom was only going to continue.

'This book coming out and this documentary might just backfire like everything else has backfired,' Franklin said.

'Trust me, it is going to bite me in the a**.'

Rachel claims she is worried about how this documentary could affect her family, but she doesn't stop the filming.

She is a mother of two sons, one of whom she had just two years ago after the controversy started.

Her youngest son is two years old and named Langston Attickus. He is named after the famous black poet, author and activist Langston Hughes.

'I'm putting my kids out there,' she said during the trailer. 'It's hard.'

Dolezal was born to European-American parents. She is a former African studies instructor and civil rights activist

Netflix responded to someone on Twitter who claimed the streaming site paid Dolezal for the documentary. It said she received no payment from the project

The documentary will first premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival before it is released on Netflix on April 27.

But already people have taken to Twitter in outrage that Netflix chose to create the documentary.

One user claims Netflix allowed Dolezal to sell her story to them.

The streaming site clarified that Dolezal was not paid for the project.

The statement on Twitter said: Like all subjects for our documentaries, Rachel Dolezal did not receive any payment for this project.'

It claims that filmmakers Laura Brownson and Roger Ross Williams were the ones would wanted to cover Dolezal's story because of the larger issues it brings up.

'The film is focused not just on her life but on the larger conversation, including people who see her actions as the ultimate expression of white privileged,' the statement said.

The backlash the documentary has already received since the trailer was revealed only confirms Franklin's fears about the new publicity.

'She can identify whatever she wants to be, 'cause it's her business,' Franklin said in the trailer.

'But when it's put in the limelight, I don't think you should be pissing people off more than they already are unless you want to be bit in the ass from it.

'And she did not choose her words carefully. And it affected me. It affected my brother.'

Many took to Twitter to ask why Dolezal was chosen to tell her story over other people

Some people have said they will 'hate watch' the documentary while other say they will stay far away from it when it is released on April 27

People on Twitter were disappointed in Netflix for using money to promote Dolezal's story.

One user said: 'There are millions of black femmes and non-binary people in the world that deserve to be heard...and the fact that I have to see her name on my screen makes me so so so angry.'

Others are preparing to 'hate watch' the documentary when it is released next month.