At the risk of giving Krug any more oxygen...what she is bringing up for a lot of mixed-race and white-passing POC is extraordinarily painful. For me? Years of having to overcome self-hatred as a Puerto Rican, only to still feel not-Latina-enough, and this woman just... pretends.
The extreme damage this does to us--the mistrust it sows, the doubt it inspires--it is a form of white supremacy. After all, I've seen a lot of POC say they feel nervous enough as it is claiming those identities. I've felt the same. Am I too blanquita to even talk about this?
What's happened here is a case of a white person colonising Blackness and Latinidad and forcing us out of it because of her deception. It's stomach churning.
To pass for white confers condition privilege I strive to be mindful of at all times; some conversations are not made for me, and some space is not mine to take, even in Latinx communities. I accept that. But people like Krug make me doubt even my own heritage in my own mind.
To make me feel like I can't even have my own heritage somehow seems to complete the ravages of white supremacy that, for instance, made my parents feel like they shouldn't teach me Spanish.
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