Black People Helped The Monster Known As Jessica La Bombalera

Keka Araújo
6 min readSep 6, 2020

Jessica Krug, also known as Jessica La Bombalera, the loud, proud “Afro-Rican, Black American, and every Black from all the continents of Africa” face-ass infiltrator taught us something good this week.

As reports continue to spill her insidiously bitter tea, I can’t help but think that Black folks helped facilitate that raggedy-ass monster’s creation. And it was when she was busted that she divulged who she was- a vile, opportunistic, and evil woman cloaked in white privilege and racism with a bad dye job. According to the New York Post from her essay on Medium (that I will not share because that broad shouldn’t earn another dollar from anybody), Krug self-righteously stated, “I cancel myself.”

And that’s fine, but there is something to be said about why Black folks believed her ass in the first place.

I am well aware as an unambiguous Black woman that fewer eyes and ears will read these words. That’s par for the course, though. What’s also par for the course is the palpability of Black pain sheathed in light, bright and actual white skin.

Today, I’m not here to serve an academic, fluffy fondue of bullshit to the people she damaged. My people. Black people.

Because we know that Black pain expressed by dark and brown-skinned folks isn’t…

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Keka Araújo

Opinionated, bilingual diasporan activist. Editor-In-Chief at Negra With Tumbao and Senior Editor at MADAMENOIRE. Opinions are mine!.