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Jewish academic admits to lying about being black

George Washington University professor said she should be ‘cancelled’ for ‘unethical, immoral, anti-black, colonial’ behaviour

September 4, 2020 11:34
Jessica Krug

ByMathilde Frot

1 min read

A white Jewish professor based in the United States has admitted to lying about being black for years.

Jessica Krug, 38, an associate professor at George Washington University, said in a Medium blog post on Thursday that she assumed fake north African and Caribbean identities for years.

“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,” she wrote.

In her blog post, Ms Krug said she “should absolutely be cancelled” and described her behaviour as “unethical, immoral, anti-black, colonial.”

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