WASHINGTON: A US university has launched an investigation after a professor admitted she had lied for years about being black and is in fact white - a stunning admission amid a tense national reckoning on race issues including cultural appropriation.
Krug, who is light-skinned, said she first claimed"North African Blackness, then US rooted Blackness, then Caribbean rooted Bronx Blackness". Krug said on Medium that her actions were 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".In a statement Friday evening the university said:"While the university reviews this situation, Dr Krug will not be teaching her classes this semester.""We want to acknowledge the pain this situation has caused for many in our community," it added.