...and why does it matter...
Another “black” activist has admitted to being a white person. Satchuel Cole, a community organizer for Black Lives Matter in Indiana, fessed up to the years-long ruse in a Facebook post last week — and vowed to “seek help.”
I have taken up space as a Black person while knowing I am white. I have used Blackness when it was not mine to use.
Cole, 45, was also born a woman but identifies as non-binary.
I'm a little surprised this even made the left-leaning news...
Earlier this week, a grad student at the University of Wisconsin Madison, stepped down from her teaching position amid revelations she falsely posed as black and Latino. CV Vitolo-Haddad admitted in a Medium post she’s actually Southern Italian and Sicilian.
Jessica Krug, a George Washington University African American studies professor, confessed her whiteness last month after years of posing as a black woman. She too publicly apologized.
In 2015, Rachel Dolezal, a white woman from Washington state who rose through the ranks of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, was forced to step down when her parents blew her cover.
