{"id":122111,"date":"2018-05-24T19:13:10","date_gmt":"2018-05-25T03:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=122111"},"modified":"2023-05-24T04:48:33","modified_gmt":"2023-05-24T12:48:33","slug":"a-song-for-bundlefly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=122111","title":{"rendered":"Report: After accusations of deceit, UW-Madison graduate student apologizes for falsely claiming to be a person of color"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>!function(r,u,m,b,l,e){r._Rumble=b,r[b]||(r[b]=function(){(r[b]._=r[b]._||[]).push(arguments);if(r[b]._.length==1){l=u.createElement(m),e=u.getElementsByTagName(m)[0],l.async=1,l.src=\"https:\/\/rumble.com\/embedJS\/uajap1\"+(arguments[1].video?'.'+arguments[1].video:'')+\"\/?url=\"+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+\"&args=\"+encodeURIComponent(JSON.stringify([].slice.apply(arguments))),e.parentNode.insertBefore(l,e)}})}(window, document, \"script\", \"Rumble\");<\/script><\/p>\n<div id=\"rumble_v2n4hr5\"><\/div>\n<p><script>\nRumble(\"play\", {\"video\":\"v2n4hr5\",\"div\":\"rumble_v2n4hr5\"});<\/script><\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"https:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/story\/news\/education\/2020\/09\/10\/italian-uw-madison-grad-student-apologizes-claiming-black\/5760320002\/\">From the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nA doctoral student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison issued a public apology this week after accusations emerged online that they were presenting as a person of color despite being mostly of Italian ancestry.<\/p>\n<p>CV Vitolo-Haddad \u2014 who uses they\/them pronouns \u2014 wrote in a Medium post Sunday that they resigned from a teaching position and stepped down as co-president of UW-Madison&#8217;s chapter of the Teaching Assistants\u2019 Association graduate workers&#8217; union. Vitolo-Haddad was also at one point director of the school&#8217;s speech and debate team.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am Southern Italian\/Sicilian. In trying to make sense of my experiences with race, I grossly misstepped and placed myself in positions to be trusted on false premises,&#8221; Vitolo-Haddad wrote. &#8220;I went along with however people saw me. I over-identified with unreliable and unproven family history and latched onto anything I remembered growing up.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;&#8221;For years, I have doubted my intuition, questioned whether anyone would believe me, and rationalized that CV might, despite all of the inconsistencies in their story, somehow be telling the truth,&#8221; the author of the post exposing Vitolo-Haddad wrote. &#8220;Race, after all, is slippery and racialization is not just about what is immediately visible, a fact I now believe CV has taken advantage of as they slide themselves further into spaces of Black identity and political organizing that do not belong to them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>UW-Madison spokeswoman Meredith McGlone confirmed that Vitolo-Haddad, a student in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, is not currently a teaching assistant at the university.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;UW-Madison expects that people represent themselves authentically and accurately in all aspects of their academic work,&#8221; McGlone said.<\/p>\n<p>The graduate workers&#8217; union issued a statement condemning the cultural appropriation &#8220;in no uncertain terms.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The TAA enabled this harm by electing them to a position of power in our union: we have unknowingly rewarded the toxic opportunism of performing Blackness,&#8221; the statement reads. &#8220;We intend to immediately begin the work of repairing this harm.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The union will host a town hall on race Monday to allow members to discuss the revelation and to determine how the group can move forward.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><A HREF=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/2020\/09\/10\/more-allegations-racial-fraud-academe\">From Inside Higher Education<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe graduate student in question is CV Vitolo-Haddad, a Ph.D. candidate in journalism and mass communication. They (Vitolo-Haddad&#8217;s preferred pronoun) were outed last week via an anonymous post on Medium and subsequently wrote two posts of their own on the platform.<\/p>\n<p>Vitolo-Haddad described their own actions as letting &#8220;guesses about my ancestry become answers I wanted but couldn\u2019t prove&#8221; and allowing people to &#8220;make assumptions when I should have corrected them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am so deeply sorry for the ways you are hurting right now because of me,\u201d Vitolo-Haddad wrote in their first public apology. \u201cYou have expressed confusion, shock, betrayal, anger, and mistrust. All of those things are a consequence of how I have navigated our relationships and the spaces we share.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the second, edited apology, Vitolo-Haddad described themself as &#8220;Southern Italian\/Sicilian.&#8221; In trying to make sense of their experiences with race, &#8220;I grossly misstepped and placed myself in positions to be trusted on false premises. I went along with however people saw me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On social media, spanning years, however, Vitolo-Haddad has described themself as other than white &#8212; in various ways.<\/p>\n<p>This summer, for instance, Vitolo-Haddad described themself as \u201citalo habesha,\u201d meaning of Italian and Eritrean or Ethiopian descent, and \u201clightskin,\u201d according to screenshots included in the anonymous post outing them.<\/p>\n<p>Several posts are also in Spanish, and allude to Latinx and\/or Afro-Latinx ancestry. Tweeting about Krug just last week, they said that their mother described them as Cuban and that the \u201ccolorism we uphold and lean into to distance ourselves is actually why no one trusts.\u201d Ironically, in retrospect, they called Krug a \u201cKansas cracker\u201d who got a Ph.D. in \u201cperforming blackface.\u201d They also described \u201ctransraciality\u201d as \u201cviolence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In another 2017 post, Vitolo-Haddad wrote that their mother faulted them for not having enough burning sage to keep their dog \u201csafe from los esp\u00edritus malignos,\u201d or evil spirits. The post also seems to say that their mother is a \u201cbruja,\u201d or witch.<\/p>\n<p>Other posts refer to their family\u2019s history of being \u201ccolonized.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The anonymous author of the Medium post says that Vitolo-Haddad is from a white, affluent Italian American family that lives in Florida. Haddad, according to the post, is a name Vitolo-Haddad kept from their past marriage. The author &#8212; described only as an affiliate of Madison &#8212; notes that Krug also described herself as having different nonwhite backgrounds, including North African and Afro-Latinx.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Though their claim to a POC identity was vague, the one consistency was their insistence that they were a constant target of acts of racism and that they came from some kind of nonwhite background,&#8221; the anonymous author wrote, accusing Vitolo-Haddad of changing their appearance over time to appear nonwhite. &#8220;They referenced it frequently on social media and in interpersonal conversations. Their behavior was reminiscent of the way people who knew Krug have described her: perpetually in a victim status, but also perpetually shifting in terms of the specifics. Their stories lacked coherence, but they intimated an insider status that made (and makes) people hesitant to question them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Vitolo-Haddad\u2019s initial apology said that they were stepping down from all positions of organizational power at Madison, including their co-presidency of the Teaching Assistants\u2019 Association and their teaching position.<\/p>\n<p>Vitolo-Haddad did not agree to an interview request. Asked via email whether they would remain at Madison as a student only, with no teaching responsibilities, they said, \u201cThose I harmed will be the ones to determine the consequences.\u201d&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>What about Vitolo-Haddad? They said Wednesday via email that while they benefited \u201csocially\u201d in certain ways from the situation, they never applied for scholarships, fellowships or awards for people of color or identified as Black on any forms asking about their identification. They also said they\u2019d never represented themself as Black in their published scholarship, which includes work on the rhetorical strategies of far-right groups.<\/p>\n<p>Vitolo-Haddad directed further questions to the second apology post, which says there were \u201cthree separate instances,\u201d otherwise unspecified, when they were asked if they were Black but did not say no. They apologized for entering Black organizing spaces and for \u201cfailing to correct varied misconceptions about my identity over the years, and for everything I did to aid or advance those ideas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In particular, they said, \u201cI want to apologize for ever taking lies about Cuban roots at face value,\u201d though it\u2019s unclear to what they are referring. \u201cAdditionally, I want to apologize for how my failure to own up to these harmful decisions publicly made every conversation on social media about the varied ways I\u2019ve been racialized a source of confusion and deception.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;Meredith Mcglone, spokesperson for Madison, said that the university \u201cexpects that people represent themselves authentically and accurately in all aspects of their academic work.\u201d She confirmed that Vitolo-Haddad is \u201cnot currently employed as a teaching assistant.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Vitolo-Haddad in the second confession post said, &#8220;What I know now is that perception is not reality. Race is not flat, it is a social construct rife with contradictions. Fighting racism never required dissociating myself from whiteness. In fact, it derailed the cause by centering my experience.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>While &#8220;most of the trust I destroyed cannot be rebuilt,&#8221; they said, they seek &#8220;redress that is appropriate for each individual I\u2019ve harmed.\u201d This will be a \u201clong-term and ongoing process, prioritizing those most directly impacted. I won\u2019t pretend to know what that looks like, but I am committed to being part of it until the end.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><A HREF=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@polite_keppel_dinosaur_57\/cv-vitolo-haddad-another-academic-racial-fraud-c5c41fe32110\">From Medium<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When the Jessica A. Krug story came out yesterday I was shocked, but not by the extent of her deception. What caught my attention, instead, were the parallels between her story and that of someone I know. I have long suspected CV Vitolo, a PhD student at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, of engaging in the same kind of race-shifting and copious lying that now has people enraged with Krug (and which distracts from the important work and struggles of actual Black thinkers, both in and outside of the academy). I share this information with the hope that it might prevent CV from causing the same harm and violence Krug enacted on people who trusted her.<br \/>\nFor years, I have doubted my intuition, questioned whether anyone would believe me, and rationalized that CV might, despite all of the inconsistencies in their story, somehow be telling the truth. Race, after all, is slippery and racialization is not just about what is immediately visible, a fact I now believe CV has taken advantage of as they slide themselves further into spaces of Black identity and political organizing that do not belong to them.<br \/>\nAnother reason I have hesitated to expose CV is because they are adept at weaving new information into their ever-expanding web of explanations. Just yesterday, they tweeted about the Krug controversy by alluding to themselves as a racially ambiguous, light-skinned Black person through liberal use of the first person plural&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/civi8.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/civi8-300x211.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"211\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-134355\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/civi8-300x211.png 300w, https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/civi8.png 346w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/civi7.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/civi7-110x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"110\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-134356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/civi7-110x300.png 110w, https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/civi7.png 142w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 110px) 100vw, 110px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/civi6.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/civi6-199x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-134357\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/civi6-199x300.png 199w, https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/civi6.png 255w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/civi5.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/civi5.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"126\" height=\"272\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-134358\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/civi4.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/civi4-300x208.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"208\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-134359\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/civi4-300x208.png 300w, https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/civi4.png 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/civi3.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/civi3-300x192.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"192\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-134360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/civi3-300x192.png 300w, https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/civi3.png 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/civi2.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/civi2-300x157.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"157\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-134361\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/civi2-300x157.png 300w, https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/civi2.png 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/civi1.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/civi1-300x204.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-134362\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/civi1-300x204.png 300w, https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/civi1.png 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xYNxXHdAj4c\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The good old days. Drunken <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KMGVictoria?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@KMGVictoria<\/a> confronts the notorious transracial, transsexual oxen on the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lukeford?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@lukeford<\/a> show. Notice <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rickwilliamscpa?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@rickwilliamscpa<\/a> white night for the demon. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yjKJaGCxv4\">pic.twitter.com\/yjKJaGCxv4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Schizo Ric (QB) (@SchizoRic) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SchizoRic\/status\/1304311578175700992?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 11, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/42N2Hih2Utg\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I&#39;m starting tonight&#39;s show with a heartfelt song directed at my late co-host <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Brundlefly14?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Brundlefly14<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lbNj6kfmSD\">https:\/\/t.co\/lbNj6kfmSD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; (((Luke Ford))) (@lukeford) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lukeford\/status\/999818156133662720?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 25, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel: A doctoral student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison issued a public apology this week after accusations emerged online that they were presenting as a person of color despite being mostly of Italian ancestry. 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