The Black We Wear

Dorothy Lennon
5 min readSep 10, 2020
Edited By: Kamille Whittaker. Photos of me and my family and Jessica A. Krug

On Thursday, September 3, 2020, Jessica A. Krug who has claimed many Afro-descended identities throughout her adult life and taught African and Latin American Studies at George Washington University, admitted to being a white Jewish woman from Kansas City.

Under false pretenses, she managed to use her fake black identity and the privilege of her lightness to gain deep access to Black culture and jobs where actual Black women have…

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Dorothy Lennon

Stringing my thoughts together in hopes of telling a story. Part-time college instructor, and a writer channeling Lynn from Girlfriends with too many degrees.