Thursday, March 28, 2024

‘I Am A Culture Leech’: Another White ‘Africana Studies’ Professor Has Been Passing as a Black Woman (Video)

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Jessica Krug, a white professor at George Washington University, revealed that she has been passing as a Black woman.

*Five years after white college instructor Rachel Dolezal was dragged kicking and screaming from her fabricated life as a Black woman, a white professor of African and Latin American studies who for years passed as a Black woman, has revealed that she has been living a similar lie.

Jessica A. Krug, an associate professor at George Washington University, has written extensively about Africa, Latin America, the diaspora and identity, all while claiming her own heritage as Black and Latina. But in an article published on Medium.com Thursday, Krug came clean that she is in fact white and Jewish.

“To an escalating degree over my adult life, I have eschewed my lived experience as a white Jewish child in suburban Kansas City under various assumed identities within a Blackness that I had no right to claim: first North African Blackness, then US rooted Blackness, then Caribbean rooted Bronx Blackness,” she wrote in the article, titled “The Truth, and the Anti-Black Violence of My Lies.”

Krug acknowledged in her post that she had no right to claim these identities, saying that “doing so is the very epitome of violence, of thievery and appropriation, of the myriad ways in which non-Black people continue to use and abuse Black identities and cultures.”

She apologized for her “continued appropriation of a Black Caribbean identity,” saying she was wrong, unethical, immoral, anti-Black and colonial.

“I am not a culture vulture,” she wrote. “I am a culture leech.”

Krug’s revelation comes five years after Rachel Dolezal, also a white college Africana Studies instructor who had been passing as a Black woman, lost her job and resigned as the president of the local NAACP in Spokane, Washington after her true racial identity was exposed.

Here’s YouTube video of Jessica Krug speaking at a conference.

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