White professor confesses that she has pretended to be black for entire career

A white professor of African history has admitted that she publically pretended to be black for her entire career in a tell-all blog post.

Jessica Krug, an associate professor at George Washington University, revealed that despite long identifying as a black woman, in reality, she is a white Jewish woman from Kansas City.

"I have built my life on a violent anti-Black lie, and I have lied in every breath I have taken," she wrote in an online blog post cited by the Metro.

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"For the better part of my adult life, every move I've made, every relationship I've formed, has been rooted in the napalm toxic soil of lies.

"I have eschewed my lived experience as a white Jewish child in suburban Kansas City under various 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."

Krug said that abuse she suffered as a child was responsible for her mental health issues, however, she admitted that it was no excuse for her actions.

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She said that what she did was "the very epitome of violence, of thievery and appropriation, of the myriad ways in which non-Black people continue to use and abuse Black identities and cultures", and admitted that her lie existed in her personal relationships too.

While the professor didn't explain why she has chosen to out herself at this time, screenwriter Hari Ziyad said that the only reason she did so was "because she had been found out".

"Jess Krug… is someone I called a friend up until this morning when she gave me a call admitting to everything written here. She didn't do it out of benevolence," he wrote on Twitter, the BBC reports.

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Media in the US has reported that Krug adopted the activist name of Jessica La Bombalera, and in one video, she slammed New Yorkers for failing to "yield their time for Black and Brown indigenous New Yorkers".

She added: "Much power to all my siblings who were standing up, my black and brown siblings who were standing."

Krug has now said that she is unlikely to repair any relationships that she built upon her lie and described herself as a "coward and a culture leach".

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But despite this, she denied having lived a double life and said: "I have lived this lie, fully, completely, with no exit plan or strategy.

"When I was a teenager fleeing trauma, I could just run away to a new place and become a new person. But this isn't trauma that anyone imposed on me, this is harm that I have enacted onto so many others. There is nowhere to run. I have ended the life I had no right to live in the first place."

The Guardian reports that Krug, who has a Ph.D., also took financial support from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

A spokesperson for George Washington University said they are "aware of the post and are looking into the situation", adding: "We cannot comment further on personnel matters."