Jessica Krug, a previous "black" African American history professor at George Washington University, admitted to actually being a white girl from Kansas, called herself a "culture leech," and is now publicly canceling herself.

She's lived as a black person "for the better part of her adult life."

According to a Guardian article, Jessica "took financial support from cultural institutions such as the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture for a book she wrote about fugitive resistance to the transatlantic slave trade."

To make things even more weird, she decided to cancel herself in a Medium article where she wrote:

"To an escalating degree over my adult life, 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," she wrote.

She also literally wrote "You should absolutely cancel me, and I absolutely cancel myself."

In Krug's book Fugitive Modernities (pre-confession of her whiteness) she writes in her acknowledgments:

"My ancestors, unknown, unnamed, who bled life into a future they had no reason to believe could or should exist. My brother, the fastest, the smartest, the most charming of us all. Those whose names I cannot say for their own safety, whether in my barrio, in Angola, or in Brazil."

It appears she took the mental health excuse for explaining why she pretended to be a black woman from Brazil. I would have definitely recommended going the "actually identify as black" route à la Rachel Dolezal vs. mental health. It's way more acceptable.

According to multiple twitter posts, it seems as though Jessica didn't wake up one day realizing she had a mental health issue and wanted to come clean about her whiteness, she was actually just about to be outed by someone else.

Self = canceled.