The term blackfishing is no stranger to most in the Black community. It’s something that has caused great discord in the Twittersphere, and sidenote, it’s probably much more prominent on your Instagram feed than you’d think.
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The newest person to join the class of racial deceit is Jessica Krug, an associate professor at George Washington University, who in a post published this week on content platform Medium, confessed to living her life based on “a violent anti-black lie.” After many years of identifying as a Black woman, receiving financial aid from cultural institutions and taking positions of leadership designed to amplify Black voices, she revealed she was in fact a white Jewish woman.
In fact Blackfishing is often linked to Black face and Xenocentrism . As with Blackface and xenocentrism, Black fishing is dehumanising, because it fails to credit group members with their individuality.
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