The rise of the race-faking academic
Another white academic, who was pretending to be black, has resigned.
Want to read spiked ad-free? Become a spiked supporter.
Another academic has admitted to being white after falsely claiming to be black.
Grad student admits lying about being black, resigns teaching position https://t.co/IvB2NU05iV pic.twitter.com/v28CJevPhY
— New York Post (@nypost) September 16, 2020
CV Vitolo-Haddad resigned last week from a teaching job at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In a Medium post, Vitolo-Haddad confesses to actually having Italian Sicilian roots and apologises for an ‘overeager identification’ with people of colour.
‘When asked if I identify as black, my answer should have always been “No”. There were three separate instances I said otherwise. I should not have adopted any identity outside of what I know’, Vitolo-Haddad writes, apologising for entering ‘black organising spaces I didn’t belong to’.
This confession comes just two weeks after Jessica Krug, an associate professor at George Washington University, admitted that she had lied about her race. Krug – another white woman pretending to be black – specialised in African studies and was popular among students for being adept at ‘dismantling whiteness’.
Back in 2015, there was the infamous case of Rachel Dolezal. Dolezal, a professor of Africana Studies, not only managed to fool her university into thinking that she was black – she also managed to lead a chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
These race fakers are just the more extreme manifestations of an intellectual culture that thinks whiteness is evil and oppression is holy.
Picture by: YouTube.
Help us hit our 1% target
spiked is funded by you. It’s your generosity that keeps us going and growing.
Only 0.1% of our regular readers currently donate to spiked. If you are one of the 99.9% who appreciates what we do, but hasn’t given just yet, please consider making a donation today.
If just 1% of our loyal readers donated regularly, it would be transformative for us, allowing us to vastly expand our team and coverage.
Plus, if you donate £5 a month or £50 a year, you can join and enjoy:
–Ad-free reading
–Exclusive bonus content
–Regular events
–Access to our comments section
The most impactful way to support spiked’s journalism is by registering as a supporter and making a monthly contribution. Thank you.
Comments
Want to join the conversation?
Only spiked supporters and patrons, who donate regularly to us, can comment on our articles.