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Teacher confesses that she lied all her life. She said she was black but she was white

An American teacher who identified herself as a black woman admitted to having lied about her origins, a confession with serious consequences in a country with strong racial tensions and where cultural appropriation is widely denounced.

In publication on the Medium platform, Jessica Krug, a history professor at the prestigious George Washington University in Washington, took on the farce she maintained for “most of” her adult life.

“I hid my past as a white Jewish girl from the suburbs of Kansas City to take advantage of several black identities that I had no right to claim: first as a black woman from North Africa, then African American and, finally, a black woman from Bronx, of Caribbean origin, “wrote Jessica Krug, a fair-skinned woman.

These lies represent “a synthesis of violence, theft and appropriation, of the countless ways in which non-blacks continue to use and abuse black identities and cultures,” wrote Krug, calling himself a “cultural leech.”

One of his former students told CNN what to teacher told students that she was proud of her origin in the Bronx. Also according to CNN, Krug, who taught classes on African and colonial history, he read aloud the word “nigger”, a term considered offensive especially when used by non-black people.

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