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Jessica A. Krug is the daughter of two white Jewish parents who grew up in Kansas City.  She later claimed "North African Blackness, then US rooted Blackness, then Caribbean rooted Bronx Blackness."<ref>{{cite web|first=Jessica |last=Krug|work=Medium|url=https://medium.com/@jessakrug/the-truth-and-the-anti-black-violence-of-my-lies-9a9621401f85|title=The Truth, and the Anti-Black Violence of My Lies|date=September 3, 2020|accessdate=2020-09-09}}</ref>  She serves as a History Professor at [[George Washington University]] where she describes her role as "a historian of politics, ideas, and cultural practices in Africa and the African Diaspora, with a particular interest in West Central Africa and maroon societies in the early modern period and Black transnational cultural studies."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://history.columbian.gwu.edu/jessica-krug|title=Jessica Krug|accessdate=2020-09-09}}</ref>  The GWU Provost announced that following her confession, Krug will not be teaching classes in the Fall 2020 semester.
 
Jessica A. Krug is the daughter of two white Jewish parents who grew up in Kansas City.  She later claimed "North African Blackness, then US rooted Blackness, then Caribbean rooted Bronx Blackness."<ref>{{cite web|first=Jessica |last=Krug|work=Medium|url=https://medium.com/@jessakrug/the-truth-and-the-anti-black-violence-of-my-lies-9a9621401f85|title=The Truth, and the Anti-Black Violence of My Lies|date=September 3, 2020|accessdate=2020-09-09}}</ref>  She serves as a History Professor at [[George Washington University]] where she describes her role as "a historian of politics, ideas, and cultural practices in Africa and the African Diaspora, with a particular interest in West Central Africa and maroon societies in the early modern period and Black transnational cultural studies."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://history.columbian.gwu.edu/jessica-krug|title=Jessica Krug|accessdate=2020-09-09}}</ref>  The GWU Provost announced that following her confession, Krug will not be teaching classes in the Fall 2020 semester.
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[[Kamala Harris]] is the daughter of a Hindu Tamil mother who immigrated from [[India]] and a black father who immigrated from [[Jamaca]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/kamala-harris-is-a-black-woman-it-s-not-complicated/ar-BB17YQTB|title=Kamala Harris is a Black woman: It’s not complicated|work=Boston Globe|date=August 14, 2020|accessdate=2020-09-10}}</ref>  Harris claims that mother raised her to be "a proud black woman," but some progressives question her racial status.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/aug/12/kamala-harris-joe-biden-vp-black-progressive-women|title=Why Black progressive women feel torn about Kamala Harris
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Critical race theory is used to advocate for [[reparations]] for the past suffering by African-Americans.  If a broad-based reparations plan is adopted that provides financial compensation to those who self-identify as black, the tension between the [[woke]] viewpoint that accepts self-identification of gender and race as well as compensation for past wrongs suffered by identity groups will become significant.
 
Critical race theory is used to advocate for [[reparations]] for the past suffering by African-Americans.  If a broad-based reparations plan is adopted that provides financial compensation to those who self-identify as black, the tension between the [[woke]] viewpoint that accepts self-identification of gender and race as well as compensation for past wrongs suffered by identity groups will become significant.
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