White Women Need To Stop: The Jessica Krug Version
From time to time, I write about how “white women need to stop”, but this particular story is genuinely disturbing. It appears as though a white Jewish woman named Jessica Krug has “assumed various black identities.”
You’ve probably heard about entertainers blackfishing, but this woman is part of the academic world, so her grift was considered significantly more distasteful. Krug, while pretending to be black, actually became a professor at GW University. What did she teach? African history.
She wrote out a Medium post, which seems like it was written very quickly. One of the most disgusting aspects of the post is that it wastes no time blaming “mental health demons”, which now seems to be the de-facto excuse for almost anything.
While I am sure that Krug has mental health issues, framing it in this way helps her avoid any real accountability. This woman has taken grant money that black women could have used. She’s gotten book deals. She’s won awards for her work, which heightened her profile and led to her networking with prominent black…
