Jessica Krug Comes Out As Blackfishy Bamboozler, Gets DRAGGED
Caucazoid Clownery: Jessica Krug Comes Out As Blackfishy Bamboozler, Gets DRAGGED To The Alabaster Abyss
I’m sorry. Y’all thought SHE was black? #JessicaKrug pic.twitter.com/x3zGPI2huM
— terrioncé (@TheTerriDiaries) September 3, 2020
The internet is ablaze over Blackfishy bamboozler Jessica A. Krug, an associate professor at George Washington University whose expertise spans colonialism and African American history, who admitted to pretending to be Black for YEARS.
Yep, YEARS like her transracial ancestor Rachel Dolezal who still, to this day, believes she’s a Black woman.
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Krug (who went by the activist name Jess La Bombalera) revealed her deception in a Medium post where she explains how she evolved from a white Jewish child in suburban Kansas City, Missouri to a Black activist who teaches salsa classes and occasionally writes for Essence Magazine–a publication targeted toward Black women.
Over the years, she lived “under various assumed identities within a Blackness that I had no right to claim: first North African Blackness, the US rooted Blackness, then the Caribbean rooted Bronx Blackness,” she revealed in the looney post.
She speculated that mental health issues “likely explain” why she assumed a false identity in her youth that continued into her adulthood and recalled mental health professionals assuring her that her actions were a common response to “some of the severe trauma” that marked her early childhood and teen years.
“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.
Krug even took financial support from cultural institutions like the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem, NY, for her book “Fugitive Modernities” about fugitive resistance to the transatlantic slave trade through their identities.
As “Jessica La Bombalera,” she pretended to be an Afro-Latina woman from the Bronx who testified by video in June to a New York City Council meeting on police violence.
I, too, am a child of the hood pic.twitter.com/PCvbKdfybK
— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) September 3, 2020
Naturally, this ridiculous story blew up on social media marking the second time a white woman (who looked very white) was able to move (and be successful) in Black spaces by Blackfishing.
How do you feel about Jessica Krug’s Blackfishery? Is she worse than Rachel Dolezal? Tell us in the comments and peep the well-deserved Twitter dragging on the flip.
Weird story of the day: Jessica Krug, a white woman from Kansas, has been pretending to be Black for her entire professional career, and now she’s apologizing for it:
"I am not a culture vulture. I am a culture leech."https://t.co/p2rBC30Tm8 pic.twitter.com/8PZCfA2YGA
— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) September 3, 2020
“Weird story of the day: Jessica Krug, a white woman from Kansas, has been pretending to be Black for her entire professional career, and now she’s apologizing for it:” – howwww diiiiid peeeeeople thiiiiiink sheeee was whiteeeeee
Jessica Krug’s fake ass accent. 💀💀💀💀 pic.twitter.com/OmUzoxLC7U
— ✨CASSANDRA (@gringatears) September 3, 2020
“Jessica Krug’s fake a** accent.” – whaaaaat issssss thissssss????
I’m sorry. Y’all thought SHE was black? #JessicaKrug pic.twitter.com/x3zGPI2huM
— terrioncé (@TheTerriDiaries) September 3, 2020
“I’m sorry. Y’all thought SHE was black?” – that’s what we’re saying!
Her “teaching” a salsa class. 😐🥴 pic.twitter.com/Vx3eD08m8U
— ✨CASSANDRA (@gringatears) September 3, 2020
“Her “teaching” a salsa class” – this is crazyyyy
I, too, am a child of the hood pic.twitter.com/PCvbKdfybK
— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) September 3, 2020
“I, too, am a child of the hood” – CHILD OF THE HOOD
Jessica Krug pretending to be “Afro Latina” but looking just like Susie Greene… it’s a little bit funny pic.twitter.com/kveqgpwekP
— Avery (@averytweet1) September 4, 2020
“Jessica Krug pretending to be “Afro Latina” but looking just like Susie Greene… it’s a little bit funny” – not even a little bit
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She deleted her Tinder so I can't show y'all, and I know none of y'all will believe this actually happened, but I matched with Jessica Krug — the white woman pretending to be Black — on Tinder a couple years back and she went in on me for not caring about Black people enough.
— Ja'han Jones (@_Jahan) September 3, 2020
“She deleted her Tinder so I can’t show y’all, and I know none of y’all will believe this actually happened, but I matched with Jessica Krug — the white woman pretending to be Black — on Tinder a couple years back and she went in on me for not caring about Black people enough.” – whaaaaat
not one of jessica krug’s areas of expertise being imperialism and colonialism lmaooo pic.twitter.com/h71DddObOZ
— nadirah (@hinadirah) September 3, 2020
“not one of jessica krug’s areas of expertise being imperialism and colonialism lmaooo” – all you can do is laugh
I was introduced to her by a colleague who was being honored at the Fredrick Douglass Book Prize ceremony this yr. She went by “Jess La Bombalera” & said she was Puerto Rican
She asked me what part of the Bronx I’m from, I said “by Bronx River Houses” and she said “me too”…… https://t.co/u6mdASPlzD
— Ivie Ani (@ivieani) September 3, 2020
“I was introduced to her by a colleague who was being honored at the Fredrick Douglass Book Prize ceremony this yr. She went by “Jess La Bombalera” & said she was Puerto Rican
She asked me what part of the Bronx I’m from, I said “by Bronx River Houses” and she said “me too”……” – awwwwkward
jessica krug was really outchere sounding like a dj shadow sample where someone from 1912 talks about mailing a postcard.
— Desus Nice (@desusnice) September 4, 2020
“jessica krug was really outchere sounding like a dj shadow sample where someone from 1912 talks about mailing a postcard.” – soooo accurate
The wild thing is that Jessica Krug is about to get the book and film deal for pretending to be Black that none of us can get for actually being Black. https://t.co/F8ZiO3Zo5H
— Frederick Joseph (@FredTJoseph) September 4, 2020
“The wild thing is that Jessica Krug is about to get the book and film deal for pretending to be Black that none of us can get for actually being Black.” – damn shame
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