~han@TTBP



24 september 2020

today i learned that another white woman tried to pass as black. jessica krug, a professor at gwu. i am reminded that the problem is always bigger than the individual; there's a problem with black appropriation, consumption and exploitation of black suffering, and the amount of preferential power institutions have always given light-skinned people.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/the-layered-deceptions-of-jessica-krug-the-black-studies-professor-who-hid-that-she-is-white