Does anyone else see a contradiction?

 

 

So Adrian Piper wrote of two different ideas that could be contradictory or not depending on how one reads them. On one page of her “Passing for White, Passing for Black,” she writes,

 

It’s an extraordinary idea, when you think about it: as though someone would willingly shoulder the stigma of being black in a racist society for the sake of a little extra professional consideration that guarantees nothing but suspicions of foulplay and accusations of cheating. But it demonstrates just how irrationally far the suspicion of fraudulence can extend (1992:9).

Then on the following page, she argues,

Why undermine my chances of admission by sacrificing my one