A white Jewish woman has been masquerading as an ‘Afro-Latina’ activist working at a college university and revealed her true self in an article she wrote on Medium titled, “The Truth, and the Anti-Black Violence of My Lies.”
The woman, Jessica A. Krug had written the following passage this week.
“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. I have not only claimed these identities as my own when I had absolutely no right to do so — when 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 — but I have formed intimate relationships with loving, compassionate people who have trusted and cared for me when I have deserved neither trust nor caring. People have fought together with me and have fought for me, and my continued appropriation of a Black Caribbean identity is not only, in the starkest terms, wrong — unethical, immoral, anti-Black, colonial — but it means that every step I’ve taken has gaslighted those whom I love.
“I am not a culture vulture. I am a culture leech.”
Jessica Krug, is an associate professor at George Washington University (GWU), but she has admitted to being a white Jewish woman from Kansas City.
Her bio on the George Washington University website reads:
Areas of Expertise
- Africa
- Latin America
- African American History
- Early Modern World
- Imperialism and Colonialism
Yes, this scenario has reared its ugly head previously when another white woman, Rachel Dolezal, who was a white race activist who claimed to be a Black woman. She was outed by her parents back in 2015.
George Washington University released a statement after finding out the deception in the same way as we did.
We are aware of the post by Jessica Krug and are looking into the situation. We cannot comment further on personnel matters.
— GW University (@GWtweets) September 3, 2020
Twitter was unforgiving towards Krug.
A whole lot of uninformed people gonna be spouting that take that Jessica Krug proves Black people have advantages, when all it exposes is what we’ve always known — lighter and fairer-skinned black folks are more valued because of their proximity to whiteness.
— Jemele Hill (@jemelehill) September 4, 2020
Let me know when y’all ready to acknowledge that Jessica Krug didn’t receive advantages because she was
black
— Jemele Hill (@jemelehill) September 4, 2020
In my “Afro Latinx History” class, Jessica Krug discussed dynamics of white scholars engaging in black studies. She really had the audacity pull up an image of the white woman who won an award over her, illustrating how black scholars are often overlooked in the academy. LOL.
— Lena Haime (@LenaHaime) September 3, 2020
Also the audacity she had to say “I cancel myself.” That is the epitome of white privilege, to control the terms by which you enter and exit any space. After faking blackness for years all of a sudden she doesn’t want to get dragged like a Black person. #JessicaKrug
— Chidi ImmaGoThere (@NicoleSymmonds) September 3, 2020
WOW.
So a white Jewish woman from Kansas City has been lying her whole adult life by pretending to be black.
The Truth, and the Anti-Black Violence of My Lies by Jessica A. Krug https://t.co/rw8yVqlPfP
— Karen Attiah (@KarenAttiah) September 3, 2020
Rachel Dolezal ran so #JessicaKrug could fly. 2020 isn’t letting up.
White women pretending to be Black is incredibly violent and invasive and proves the point we often make about whiteness and white women: violent actors of anti-blackness and patriarchy.
— Preston “Just An Adjunct Professor of Law” Mitchum (@PrestonMitchum) September 3, 2020
*Shaun King, Rachel Dolezal, & Jessica Krug walking into their blackness* pic.twitter.com/5P2etwYvVU
— #DefundThePolice (@mrcefjr) September 3, 2020
Re: #JessicaKrug. I took this screenshot in November 18, 2017 because I had my suspicions back then. I think I fell out my chair when I read it. The audacity. But hey who was I to say something? I did keep that screenshot though pic.twitter.com/1pfZUXZuNc
— Ben Becker (@benbecker_) September 4, 2020
