Neighbor of Jessica Krug — w​hite prof who pretended to be black — says she called her 'white trash,' made threats, tried starting fights



A neighbor of Jessica Krug — the now-former George Washington University professor who is white but pretended to be black most of her life — told the New York Daily News she's had her share of problems with Krug, who allegedly called her "white trash," made threats, and even tried starting fights.

What are the details?

The paper said documentary filmmaker Anna Anderson, 39, first crossed paths with Krug in their East Harlem building in 2018.

"I used to have a Blue Apron subscription, which is a mail delivery subscription, and one day my food delivery didn't show up," Anderson recalled to the Daily News. "So I asked my landlord if he could check the cameras, and he said, 'Do you have any beef with Jessica?' and I'm like, 'I don't know who Jessica is,' and he said, 'She stole your package and threw it in the garbage.'"

Anderson told the paper that when Krug "did it a second time I got really pissed off." Then Anderson said she contacted police about the missing mail and spoke by phone to a judge — but the Daily News said the NYPD wasn't immediately able to verify the accusation.

She also told the paper that Krug would lock her bike so Anderson's bike would be locked, too.

"I told her to unlock her bike from my bike, and she said, 'What are you going to do? Call the cops? You know what cops do to people like me,'" Anderson recalled to the Daily News.

And the hits just kept on coming, apparently.

"I used to go out running, she would pass me when I'm running and say, 'Gentrifying,'" Anderson told the paper. "She called me 'white trash.'"

Anderson added to the Daily News that the "white trash" insult actually was funny since "I'm a white immigrant from Sweden."

'Are you gonna call the cops on me?'

Things allegedly came close to getting physical at times.

"She's a tiny person, but she's got a very big attitude, and she kinda tried to come at me, threatened to stomp on my dog and provoke me to beat her up," Anderson told the paper. "She's like, 'Are you gonna hit me, are you gonna hit me? Are you gonna call the cops on me?'"

Not that it rattled Anderson, who stands 5-feet, 9-inches tall, the Daily News said.

"She's been throwing air punches at me when we meet in the hallway," she added to the paper, which noted the women live three floors apart in their building.

Despite it all Anderson — referencing Krug's viral post on Medium in which she told the world she had been lying about her ethnicity — told the Daily News, "I just hope she gets the help she needs."

Krug didn't immediately respond to a request for comment for this story.

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George Washington University cancels classes by 'black' woman who outed herself as white as colleagues call for her resignation



Jessica Krug, disgraced white academic who portrayed herself as an African-American woman, will not be teaching her previously scheduled classes at George Washington University this fall.

What's a brief history here?

In a now-viral — and roundly criticized — blog post published on Medium, Krug admitted that she is a white Jewish woman from a suburban Kansas City, and called to be "cancelled" over her apparent deceit.

In the post, she claimed to have assumed such identities as "North African blackness," "U.S. rooted blackness," and finally, "Caribbean rooted Bronx blackness."

The professor blamed "unaddressed mental health demons" for her behavior.

"I have built my life on a violent anti-black lie," she admitted in the post.

What are the details?

In a statement, school officials announced that Krug would not be returning to the school.

"The members of the faculty of The George Washington University Department of History are shocked and appalled by Dr. Jessica Krug's admission on September 3, 2020 that she has lied about her identity for her entire career," the statement began. "With what she has termed her 'audaciously deceptive' appropriation of an Afro-Caribbean identity, she has betrayed the trust of countless current and former students, fellow scholars of Africana Studies, colleagues in our department and throughout the historical discipline, as well as community activists in New York City and beyond."

The statement points out that Krug — apparently operating under dishonest themes — has raised questions about "the veracity of her own research and teaching.

Faculty members are also calling for Krug to tender her resignation. If she does not, the department insists it will call on the school to revoke her tenure and terminate her employment.

"The discipline of history is concerned with truth telling about the past," the statement continues. "With her conduct, Dr. Krug has raised questions about the veracity of her own research and teaching. Accordingly, the department calls upon Dr. Krug to resign from her position as associate professor of History at GW. Failing that, the department recommends the rescinding of her tenure and the termination of her appointment."

On Friday, the university's provost, Brian Blake, and its dean, Paul Wahlbeck, shared a joint statement on the matter.

"Dr. Krug will not be teaching her classes this semester," the statement added. "We are working on developing a number of options for students in those classes, which will be communicated to affected students as soon as possible."

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Anything else?

A woman purporting to be Krug's sister-in-law tells CNN that Krug has always been as "white as Snow White."

"There's no way she's black, I can tell you that, there's no member of the family that is Black," the woman said. "Our last name is tarnished, and all my husband and I want to do is cry our eyes out right now. I can only imagine my father-in-law rolling around in his grave."

The unnamed woman, who said that her husband has been estranged from Krug for at least two decades, added that the family had no idea Krug was pretending to be African-American.

"We had no clue, we are shocked right now and hurt. Our name is ruined," she told CNN. "It hurts because she slapped everyone in the face, not only her family, she slapped every black woman in the face."

Jessica A. Krug, GWU professor, lied about being Black

A professor of Black history at George Washington University admitted Thursday that she has been pretending to be Black for decades.

In a Medium post titled "The Truth, and the Anti-Black Violence of My Lies," Jessica Krug admitted that she is a White Jewish woman raised ...

White GWU professor 'cancels' herself for lying about being black for most of her life



Jessica A. Krug, a history professor at George Washington University, "canceled" herself Thursday after admitting in a Medium post to falsely claiming a black identity for much of her professional life.

What are the details?

"For the better part of my adult life, every move I've made, every relationship I've formed, has been rooted in the napalm toxic soil of lies," Krug wrote at the opening of the bizarre post titled, "The Truth, and the Anti-Black Violence of My Lies."

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

With a dizzying sense of self-loathing, Krug would go on to call her lies "the very epitome of violence, of thievery and appropriation ... unethical, immoral, anti-Black, colonial.

She added that the lies were likely spawned by "unaddressed mental health demons" that have plagued her since childhood. But mental health issues, she argued, are no excuse for her grievous sin.

"That I claimed belonging with living people and ancestors to whom and for whom my being is always a threat at best and a death sentence at worst," she wrote.

A biographical page on George Washington University's website shows that Krug currently works as an associate professor in the school's history department, specializing in the history of Africa and the African diaspora, or the dispersion of African peoples across the globe.

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What else?

Krug, having confessed her wrongs, went on to pass the fitting sentence — a self-cancelation.

Here's what she wrote:

I believe in restorative justice, where possible, even when and where I don't know what that means or how it could work. I believe in accountability. And I believe in cancel culture as a necessary and righteous tool for those with less structural power to wield against those with more power.

I should absolutely be cancelled. No. I don't write in passive voice, ever, because I believe we must name power. So. You should absolutely cancel me, and I absolutely cancel myself.

But when evidently prodded by her own conscious as to what exactly a cancellation means for her, she was forced to admit, "I don't know."

She insists, however, that the article is not just some dramatic public relations move.

"This isn't a confession, it isn't a public relations move, and it damn sure isn't a shield," she wrote. "It is the truth, though."

Krug, who has a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is the author of "Fugitive Modernities: Politics and Identity Outside the State in Kisama, Angola, and the Americas."

According to her GWU profile, in the book she "interrogates the political practices and discourses through which those who fled from slavery and the violence of the slave trade in Angola forged coherent political communities outside of, and in opposition to, state politics."

TheBlaze reached out to the email provided on Krug's university profile for comment, but did not receive a response in time for publication.