A George Washington University professor of black studies has copped to the gravest crime in the new identitarian order of things: being white.
Jessica Krug, "a decolonial historian of Black political thought and action in West Central Africa and throughout the Americas," issued her confession Thursday on Medium. Despite growing up Jewish in suburban Kansas City, Krug says, she "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."
Furthermore, various reports have identified Krug as the woman behind the persona "Jess La Bombalera," an activist who has appeared at various public events to advocate for social justice in an ever-so-slightly-off New York Latina accent. La Bombalera's antics may not have pinged the bullshit detectors of progressives eager to hear from persons of color, perhaps due in part to her suspiciously bronzed complexion, as seen the undated but no-less flatteringly angled, generously filtered selfie accompanying this article from The Cut.
