George W. Washington, an African American history professor at Washington University who was publicly identified as black, has now shockingly admitted that he is white and has been lying about his race for years.
Jessica Krueg revealed in the Bombshell Medium Post on Thursday that she has lied about her entire career being black and admitting to cheating on her friends and colleagues.
She said in a blog post – titled ‘The Truth, and Anti-Black Violence of My Lies’ – that she is white, Jewish and raised in Kansas City.
He writes, ‘For the good part of my adult life, every move I make, every relationship I make, is rooted in the toxic soil of lies.’
‘To a growing degree in my adult life, I have tied the living experience of being a white Jewish child in the suburban city of Kansas City under various hypothetical identities within the blackness that I have no right to claim: first North African blackness, then U.S. Original blackness, then the origin of the Caribbean Bronx Blackness. ‘
Her stern confline confession is reminiscent of the scandal involving Rachel Dolegle – a former NAACP leader in Washington state, who was declared a white woman in 2015 rather than being black.
Jessica Krueg revealed on Thursday that she had lied about her entire career being black.
Krug called himself a ‘culture leopard’ and a ‘coward’.
He said, ‘I have thought for many years about ending these lies, but my cowardice was always more powerful than my morality.’
‘I know right from wrong. I know history. I know the power. I’m a coward. There is no ignorance, no innocence, nothing to claim, nothing to defend. I’ve gone the wrong way in every way over the years.
‘You should cancel me completely, and I completely cancel myself.
Following the revelations in her post, Krug was subsequently denounced on Twitter by many black writers and scholars with whom she had been in contact throughout her career.
‘I have built my life on anti-black lies, and lied in every breath I took.
‘I don’t live a double life. In my adulthood there is no parallel form connected with white people or the white community or alternative white identity. I have lived this lie, completely, completely, without any exit plan or strategy. I have just built this life, within this life I have managed with a radical spirit of morality, true and false, and with rage, rooted in black power, an ideology that everyone should support, but for which I am not possible. Claim to be my own. ‘
She admitted that it was unlikely she could improve any relationship she made based on the extent of her lies.
‘I have burned every bridge and no expectation that any of my relationships are flame resistant. I will never apologize or expect.
‘Everyone who believes in me, who fought for me, who promised for me, who loved me, who feels trauma and betrayal and anger and deep trauma and confusion of bone marrow, is in this world and beyond: I beg you I do, please, do not question your own judgment or doubt yourself. You were not naive. I was bravely deceptive. I have a very clear, strong ending conscience, but I have acted like I have nothing. I gaslit you. I demand your compassion and my love for my loneliness and loneliness – real and raw feelings, but victims of the avalanche of betrayal.
In her blog post, Krug said she has fought ‘unfamiliar mental health monsters’ all her life and assumed a false identity for the first time as a child.
She writes that her mental health issues can never explain or justify why tend to be black.
Krug has been teaching classes on African history at GWU since 2012. He is pictured above during a panel discussion on African studies at Columbia University last year.
Krueg, pictured above at the Haiti Embassy in Washington DC in 2017, has written several books and essays on black culture.
‘When I was a teenager fleeing trauma, I could barely move to a new place and become a new person. But this is not the shock that someone has inflicted on me, this is the damage I have inflicted on so many others. Nowhere to run. I have ended my life, I have no right to be in the first place, ‘he said.
Her stern confline confession is reminiscent of the scandal involving Rachel Dolegle – a former NAACP leader in Washington state, who was declared a white woman in 2015 rather than being black.
‘No white person, no black, has the right to claim closeness or belonging to the black community because of being abused, traumatized, unacceptable and non-related in the white community. The abuse and culmination from my birth family and society is not someone’s burden, but my own, and mine alone to address.
‘Black people and black communities have no duty to accommodate the denial of non-black societies. I have done this. I know it’s wrong and I’ve done it this way. ‘
Krug has been teaching African American history at George and Washington Washington University since 2012.
His biography page on the university website states that he also specializes in subjects including Latin America, Africa, imperialism and colonialism.
She holds a Ph.D. From the University of Wisconsin-Madison, according to the GWU page.
Krug has also written several books and essays on blackness and black culture. Posts began deleting on Thursday following the revelations of some of the outlets that published his work.
Krug has been teaching classes on African American history at George and Washington Washington University since 2012.
Hari Ziad, a black writer and screenwriter, claimed that she wrote this post only because she was a ‘finder’.
Following the revelations in her post, Krug was subsequently denounced on Twitter by many black writers and scholars with whom she had been in contact throughout her career.
Hari Ziad, a black writer and screenwriter, claimed that she wrote this post only because she wanted to find out.
In a series of derogatory tweets, Ziad said he considered Craig a friend until she called him a few hours before the media post was published for confession.
‘Jess Krug … there’s someone I called a friend until this morning when he gave me a call accepting everything I wrote here. She didn’t do it out of philanthropy. She did it because she was found. ‘Ziad tweeted.
‘Over the years I defended her work, and she with her own self-extinction. I did it despite warnings from black friends who said she was not black, even though they acknowledged she was black, and from my own mind and body.
‘I always knew something was off. She was in her constant negativity and jealousy, she always needed to prove her honesty at the expense of everything.
‘I’ve kept it at arm’s length, but still close enough that it could hurt the black people around me. I apologize to many people. ‘
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