If you read the entire Nylon profile, you'll see the proper context of her comments.

Anyway, Zoe's no different from many other black kids who grew up in a financially privileged and mostly white setting. Their isolation from their people gives them a skewered view of blackness. All she's saying that she as got older, she began to see that her take on black culture was as warped as everyone else's and she educated herself to see what's up. That's all. I actually commend her b/c Lord knows that many other blacks (especially in our age range) are just as lost as she once was.

All this talk of "light skinned privilege", opportunism, n-word wake-up calls (she got those early, she reveals in the full profile, as a chubby black girl in a school full of Nordic white girls) and all that sound just like projecting IMO.