Jessica Krug. Rachel Dolezal. Many have taken it upon themselves to absorb Blackness as an identity and while most are caught up in the inherent question of “HOW?”, my mind tends to focus more on the important question of “WHY?”
This is my initial hypothesis, it will likely change as I research:
Blackfishing is a form of combining Munchausen’s/ Munchausen’s by Proxy. White women aged 20–40 are the demographic most likely to exhibit extreme symptoms of both of these mental illnesses.
Blackfishing allows them to claim the victimhood aspect of Blackness in relation to white global domination AND be praised for being “6F passing” and still “fighting the good fight”, allowing them to be both victim and recipient of the praise of someone being a maternalistic caretaker/stakeholder of truer victims. In addition, unattractive white women instant increase in market value in terms of desirability politics as “light-skinned” or “racially ambiguous” WOC or Black women in comparison to being an otherwise unattractive #6F American, just as a single mother of a sick child who’s child’s father left has a higher market value than a single mother who’s co-parenting with their child’s father (Re: DeeDee Blanchard).
