Yet Another White Woman Has Been Outed For Pretending to Be a Person of Color
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That’s right—the white women are once again lying about their racial/ethnic identity! On Thursday, Prism published an article alleging that Natasha Lycia Ora Bannan, a prominent human rights attorney, has been lying about being Latina for years. A white woman from Georgia. Bannan has publicly identified as Latina for over a decade, though the details of her identity have shifted during that time, and she has been accepting opportunities intended for Latinx people and other people of color since 2006.
In 2015, Bannan alluded to having Colombian family, but by 2017, she was also claiming to be Puerto Rican. However, Prism reports that nothing in Bannan’s lineage would give her any ground to lay claim to a Latina identity or heritage. Her paternal family hails from Ireland and Italy, and her maternal family arrived in the U.S. from Russia. Court records from when Bannan was 17 years old also identify her as white and “non-Hispanic.”
But when contacted by Prism for this story, Bannan said she has identified as Latina for as long as she can remember because that was the culture she was “raised in.” She also claimed she has been public about her whiteness, but declined to provide sufficient examples supporting this claim. However, shortly after hearing from Prism, Bannan wrote a Facebook post clarifying that she was “racially white,” a phrase that seems deliberately ambiguous.