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Culture Tag

Big tech has become trite and tiresome. Instead of honoring Thanksgiving (a holiday made national holiday by Abraham Lincoln, for crying out loud), the tech giant celebrated "Unthanksgiving" on social media. Because colonialism blah blah blah.

In September, we covered the story of a George Washington University professor who claimed to be black and resigned after it was revealed she was white. We then covered a nearly identical story about a doctoral student at UW-Madison. Now we bring you the story of Kelly Kean Sharp, who recently resigned from Furman University after it was revealed that she is white, but has been identifying as Chicana. Why does this keep happening?

Last week, we brought you the story of Jenifer Krug, a professor of Black History at George Washington University, who revealed that she was white after years of claiming to be a black person. This week, a doctoral student named CV Vitolo-Haddad was exposed as a similar case. This person claimed to be African-American but is in fact, Italian.