By Emma Colton
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/author/emma-colton
A nonbinary white graduate student admitted to not being black or Latino after years of saying otherwise.
“When asked if I identify as black, my answer should have always been ‘No,’” CV Vitolo-Haddad wrote on Sept. 8 in a Medium post. “There were three separate instances I said otherwise.”
Vitolo-Haddad, who is actually of Southern Italian and Sicilian heritage, resigned from a teaching position at the University of Wisconsin-Madison after the admission.
“I have let guesses about my ancestry become answers I wanted but couldn’t prove,” Vitolo-Haddad previously said in another apology published on Medium. “I have let people make assumptions when I should have corrected them.”
Vitolo-Haddad also specifically apologized for letting others assume the graduate student had Cuban heritage.
“I want to apologize for ever taking lies about Cuban roots at face value, and for subsequently attaching myself to people’s perceptions of me as though it would provide answers where there are none.”
The admission follows an apology this summer from a former George Washington University professor who lied about being black.
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