- Just when you think Id Pol can't get any more twisted Archived Message
- Just when you think Id Pol can't get any more twisted - Raskolnikov September 4, 2020, 7:06 am
- The tyranny of small differences - Keith-264 September 4, 2020, 9:35 am
Posted by Raskolnikov
on September 4, 2020, 7:06 am
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along comes this headcase. https://www.dumptheguardian.com/world/2020/sep/03/jessica-krug-white-professor-pretended-black A seasoned activist and professor of African American history at George Washington University has been pretending to be Black for years, despite actually being a white woman from Kansas City. In a case eerily reminiscent to Rachel Dolezal, Jessica A Krug took financial support from cultural institutions such as the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture for a book she wrote about fugitive resistance to the transatlantic slave trade. But according to a Medium post allegedly written by Krug herself, her career was rooted in a “toxic soil of lies”. “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: first North African Blackness, then US rooted Blackness, then Caribbean rooted Bronx Blackness,” she wrote. What the absolute #### is this? Do you seriously go around saying "I'm no longer identifying with US rooted Blackness but I'm now more Caribbean rooted Bronx Black"? Or is this just the id-pol obsessed way of saying you just lied a lot about where you were from? She's sure to get dragged for ever on twitter and there'll be all kinds of essential debate about this massively vital topic on social media but holy shit does this seem utterly irrelevant to me. Krug alludes in her Medium post to a traumatic childhood and mental health issues, but says she does not believe they can be used to excuse her behavior. “To say that I clearly have been battling some unaddressed mental health demons for my entire life, as both an adult and child, is obvious. Mental health issues likely explain why I assumed a false identity initially, as a youth, and why I continued and developed it for so long. “But mental health issues can never, will never, neither explain nor justify, neither condone nor excuse, that, in spite of knowing and regularly critiquing any and every non-Black person who appropriates from Black people, my false identity was crafted entirely from the fabric of Black lives,” she wrote. What black lives? If you made it all up whose life have you used? Also, it seems slightly against the flow of id-pol where I thought you could "identify" as whatever you wanted to; race, gender, sexuality.... |
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