Was just talking about that last night with my partner, as a 'mixed' family find it deeply upsetting how someone could try impersonate a person of color taking advantage of the ambiguous ground within colourisim.
I don't really understand it, but one motivation, apart from general issues that a person might have, could be guilt about history and present, perhaps especially in the case of an academic who knows about both. Still bizarre and indefensible.
Was just talking about that last night with my partner, as a 'mixed' family find it deeply upsetting how someone could try impersonate a person of color taking advantage of the ambiguous ground within colourisim.