Can we change the race we are born with?
On 3rd September, 2020, Jessica Krug, a white professor in history at George Washington University, US, confessed in her blog that she had been pretending to be Black for her entire professional career. In her blog post entitled "The Truth, and the Anti-Black Violence of My Lies", Jessica revealed that she was a White Jewish woman as she wrote "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". For more than a decade, Jessica 'faked' her ethnicity. She is intectually capable and successful in her profession as an academician, being a historian of politics, ideas, and cultural practices in Africa and the African Diaspora. She has authored few books, to add to her success. To protect her 'Black' identity, and not to