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irisblue

(34,405 posts) Fri Sep 4, 2020, 09:05 PM Sep 2020

Update on Jessica Krug , 2 sources, long

Original thread here-https://www.democraticunderground.com/118768697

9/4/20 source-https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/gwu-plans-to-replace-jessica-krug-the-professor-who-admitted-to-falsely-claiming-black-identity/2020/09/04/699fc2be-eedb-11ea-ab4e-581edb849379_story.html

snip-"George Washington University’s history department plans to replace Jessica A. Krug, the associate professor who said she lied about being a Black woman, the department chair has confirmed."

snip-"Krug was teaching courses on African and Latin American history in the fall semester, Schwartz said, and the department is looking to bring in a professor with experience teaching those subjects. A replacement has not been chosen, but Schwartz mentioned the possibility of recruiting someone from the GWU community."

Snip-"Quinton Lucas, the mayor of Kansas City, Mo., retweeted a yearbook photo from 1999 that showed Krug and himself as part of a student political organization called StuPac. Lucas and Krug were classmates at the Barstow School in Kansas City, Mo., according to the tweet.

“One of the stranger person-in-your-yearbook-photo-did-this stories I’ve stumbled upon. Yes, Jessica graduated a few years ahead of me,” Quinton tweeted. “She was interesting back then, but it is really surprising she’s tried to pass as Black for 20 years. Her apology in reflection is warranted.”

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And Black twitter is not amused

Source--https://bossip.com/1951569/jessica-krug-blackfishing-reactions-tweets-memes/

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Caucazoid Clownery: Jessica Krug Comes Out As Blackfishy Bamboozler, Gets DRAGGED To The Alabaster Abyss

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Caucazoid Clownery: Jessica Krug Comes Out As Blackfishy Bamboozler, Gets DRAGGED To The Alabaster Abyss

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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 trans-racial ancestor Rachel Dolezal who still, to this day, believes she’s a Black woman."

More at article.

People are freaking weird

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Update on Jessica Krug , 2 sources, long (Original Post) irisblue Sep 2020 OP

I know Jessica Krug. PoindexterOglethorpe Sep 2020 #1

Wow! Thanks for this first-hand background info. Amazing. Kind of Blue Sep 2020 #3

Thanks, irisblue. Good to see none of us so far thinking this was okay Kind of Blue Sep 2020 #2

PoindexterOglethorpe

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1. I know Jessica Krug.

Reply to irisblue (Original post)

Sat Sep 5, 2020, 05:51 PM

Sep 2020

My kids attended the Barstow school at the same time, and the last semester of her senior I drove her to and from school.

I can tell you this about her. She was always prickly, very eager to take stands on things that she knew would offend people. She wanted to burn a flag on the school campus, but her reasoning wasn't exactly clear. Just some sort of protest. The school told her no.

In her senior year, she submitted something that someone else had written to the school literary magazine. Unfortunately the student editors didn't realize it wasn't her work, but when the magazine was printed and distributed to the student body, several readers did spot the plagiarism. This was about a week before the end of the school year. The administration told her to clear out her locker, do not come back, and they'd mail her diploma to her.

She went to the the University of Kansas for her undergraduate degree. According to the internet she got a Master's at Portland State University, then her PhD at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. I kind of doubt she started passing as Black while at KU, simply because there would have been too many people on campus who would have already known her and would have seen through that.

It would be really interesting to see her academic records from all three schools and talk to people who knew her then.

I will say, having known Jessie during the years she attend Barstow, (8th through 12th grade) I am somehow not surprised she spent years deceiving people. It's also interesting to look at her ratings on the Rate My Professor website.

Kind of Blue

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3. Wow! Thanks for this first-hand background info. Amazing.

Reply to PoindexterOglethorpe (Reply #1)

Sun Sep 6, 2020, 02:05 PM

Sep 2020

Kind of Blue

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2. Thanks, irisblue. Good to see none of us so far thinking this was okay

Reply to irisblue (Original post)

Sun Sep 6, 2020, 02:04 PM

Sep 2020

as it was with some for Dolezal.

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