Yet another race-faking leftist has been unmasked.
This time, the faker is the quadri-monikered Natasha Lycia Ora Bannan, a “civil rights” lawyer who has claimed she is Puerto Rican. In fact, a website called Prism has revealed, she’s just your average, everyday, run-of-the-mill, whitebread white girl from Georgia.
Bannan joins two other famous white girls who pretended to be something they weren’t. Just last week, Hilaria Baldwin was exposed. The spouse of angry leftist actor Alec Baldwin has faked a Spanish accent for some time. In September, Jessica Krug quit her teaching job at George Washington University after confessing that she is not black.
Irish Eyes Aren’t Smiling
Apparently, Bannan wasn’t satisfied with being an average white girl who grew up romping on the red clay of the Peach State.
“For years,” Prism reported, “she has positioned herself as an advocate for Latinx communities, most recently identifying as a Puerto Rican woman from New York determined to aid the island and bring attention to the economic and humanitarian crises produced by colonization.”
But that isn’t what Bannan was at all. You’d think the people at Latino Justice, where she “focuses on the economic exploitation and discrimination against low-wage Latina/o immigrant workers, as well as legal support in the face of the economic and humanitarian crisis in Puerto Rico,” would have known.
Alas and alack, Bannan pulled the sombrero over their ojos.
Reported Prism:
Nothing in Bannan’s lineage indicates that she can lay claim to a Latina identity. [Records show] Bannan’s paternal family arrived in the United States from Ireland and Italy…. Records also indicate that Bannan’s maternal family all arrived in the U.S. from Russia. Court records from 1994, when Bannan was 17 years old, identify Natasha Lycia Bannan as a white “non-Hispanic.” Nevertheless, in a statement to Prism, Bannan said she has identified as Latina for as long as she can remember because it was the culture she was “raised in.”
In public comments going back more than a decade, she has claimed varying forms of Latina identity, presenting vague and shifting descriptions of her ethnic and cultural origins. In 2007, Bannan told the the Spanish-language newspaper El Diario that she was “a little bit Spanish, a little bit Colombian, and a Sephardic Jew.” When asked about the article, which is no longer available online, Bannan told Prism that she never identified as Spanish.
“I believe I let the reporter know back then that was a misprint in the article,” said Bannan in a statement.
The reporter in question told Prism that she has no recollection of whether Bannan contacted her about an error in the story.
Other evidence also suggests the leftist lawyer isn’t quite telling the truth, Prism reported. In videos, she discussed her salsa dancing, and has claimed she’s a “cultural mix of Puerto Rican, Colombian, Italian, and some other.”
After Prism contacted her, Bannan rushed to Facebook to say she is “racially white” but with a “cultural heritage” that entitles her to claim she’s Latina:
I am racially white, and have always said that. However my cultural identity was formed as a result of my family, both chosen and chosen for me, and that has always been Latinx. My identity is my most authentic expression of who I am and how I pay honor to the people who have formed me since I was a child.
Amusingly, because of her “Latina” heritage, the National Lawyers Guild — a longtime communist front group that laughably calls cop-murderer Mumia al-Jamal “Jailhouse Lawyer VP Emeritus” — made her president in 2015.
Other Fakers
Four days before Christmas, a Twitter user exposed Hilaira Baldwin’s Lady-from-Spain ruse, an apparent attempt to appear Hispanic.
Baldwin has had a tough time maintaining consistently using the accent however, the New York Post reported, one of the giveaways that no one, apparently, noticed until she was exposed on Twitter.
Before Baldwin, Jessica Krug, who is Jewish, masqueraded as black when she taught at George Washington University. Though Krug had publicly said a boy in an anti-gang program should have been hacked to death because he was a “snitch,” the university never fired her.
Rachel Dolezal’s might be the most notable case of racial fraud. For years, the white woman masqueraded as black, affecting a hairstyle resembling that of The Simpsons mad criminal, Sideshow Bob.
Such was the success of her ruse that she became a chapter president for the NAACP.
