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Human Rights Attorney Latest To Be Called Out For Pretending To Be Non-White

Ashe Schow
Human Rights Attorney Latest To Be Called Out For Pretending To Be Non-White
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A human rights attorney who claimed to be “Latinx” has admitted that she is, in fact, white, the latest in a string of people to be exposed for pretending to be Latino or Black.

Natasha Lycia Ora Bannan, the National Lawyers Guild’s first “Latina” president, spent years claiming to be of Puerto Rican and Columbian descent, according to a report from the nonprofit news outlet Prism.

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