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The white George Washington University professor who on Thursday admitted she lied about being black for years only did so after being found out, a friend claimed.
Hari Ziyad, a black author and screenwriter, posted a series of tweets calling Jessica Krug “a friend up until this morning” when Krug apparently called Ziyad to confess the falsehoods she detailed in a Medium post titled “The Truth, and the Anti-Black Violence of My Lies.”
“She didn’t do it out of benevolence,” Ziyad wrote. “She did it because she had been found out.”
Dr. Yomaira Figueroa, an associate professor of Afro Diaspora Studies at Michigan State University, also said Krug only came forward after being confronted.
“Krug got ahead of the story because she was caught & she knew the clock was ticking bec folks started to confront her & ask questions,” Figueroa wrote on Twitter.
“Do not believe for one second that she would have come out with the truth on her own.”
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