{"id":60519,"date":"2021-02-05T01:24:40","date_gmt":"2021-02-05T01:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=60519"},"modified":"2021-02-05T01:24:42","modified_gmt":"2021-02-05T01:24:42","slug":"the-true-story-of-jess-krug-the-white-professor-who-posed-as-black-for-years-until-it-all-blew-up-last-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=60519","title":{"rendered":"The True Story of Jess Krug, the White Professor Who Posed as Black for Years\u2014Until It All Blew Up Last Fall"},"content":{"rendered":"

The True Story of Jess Krug, the White Professor Who Posed as Black for Years\u2014Until It All Blew Up Last Fall<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The Washingtonian<\/a>
\n2021-01-27<\/p>\n

Marisa Kashino<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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\nPhotograph courtesy of YouTube <\/small><\/p>\n

She fabricated harrowing personal backstories, peddled gross caricatures, and spoke from perspectives she had no right to claim. And nobody stopped her.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cIam a coward.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jessica Krug\u2019s<\/a> confession started ricocheting across screens one brutally muggy afternoon in late-summer Washington<\/a>. \u201cFor the better part of my adult life,\u201d it began, \u201cevery move I\u2019ve made, every relationship I\u2019ve formed, has been rooted in the napalm toxic soil of lies.\u201d Krug, a faculty member at George Washington University<\/a>, had taken to Medium<\/em>, the online forum, to reveal a stunning fabrication<\/a>. Throughout her entire career in academia, the professor of African history\u2014a white woman\u2014had been posing as Black and Latina<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have thought about ending these lies many times over many years, but my cowardice was always more powerful than my ethics. I know right from wrong. I know history. I know power. I am a coward,\u201d she wrote. \u201cYou should absolutely cancel me, and I absolutely cancel myself.\u201d<\/p>\n

The statement, posted September 3, 2020, went viral immediately, unleashing a tidal wave of Oh, my Gods across the text chains of Krug\u2019s GW colleagues and other academics. \u201cWe were all blindsided,\u201d says GW history-department chair Daniel Schwartz<\/a>. Distraught emails from Krug\u2019s students\u2014less than a week into a virtual semester already upended by the coronavirus pandemic\u2014began piling up in faculty in-boxes. Meanwhile, an online mob went to work churning up old photos of Krug and tanking the Amazon ratings of her book. By the end of the day, a now-infamous video of Krug calling herself \u201cJess La Bombalera\u201d and speaking in a D-list imitation Bronx accent was all over the internet….<\/p>\n

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She fabricated harrowing personal backstories, peddled gross caricatures, and spoke from perspectives she had no right to claim. And nobody stopped her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1245,8,6462,20,25],"tags":[5839,31106,31281,31107,31280,18537,25413,31282],"class_list":["post-60519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-biography","category-media-archive","category-passing-2","category-usa","category-women","tag-george-washington-university","tag-jessica-a-krug","tag-jessica-anne-krug","tag-jessica-krug","tag-marisa-kashino","tag-medium","tag-the-washingtonian","tag-washingtonian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60519"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60521,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60519\/revisions\/60521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}