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 get 'discovered', Jessica went to such as extent as not to attend her mother's funeral in 2013. 

What are the consequences of her confession? Apparently, her family members, such her brother and sister-in-law are left in shock, and apparently disowned her. 

 

 

 

 has also written several books and essays on blackness and black culture. Some of the outlets who have published her work started deleting the posts on Thursday after the revelations.

One classmate said no one heard of Krug, who identified as a white, Jewish girl at school

                  Hari Ziyad, a black author and screenwriter, claimed that she had only penned the post because she had been 'found out'

A White professor says she has been pretending to be Black for her entire professional career

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