Posted on 08/20/2015 11:47:53 AM PDT by nickcarraway
The Black Lives Matter activist responds to a series of attacks on his credibility by conservative bloggers, who have tried to paint him as another Rachel Dolezal.
Shaun King, a prominent voice in the Black Lives Matter movement, denied accusations that he lied about being biracial and a victim of a brutal racial attack by a white mob, the New York Times reports.
The Daily Caller, a right-wing conservative blog, has been circulating posts for weeks that question King’s honesty. One conservative blogger claimed to have evidence that King’s father was white, which would disprove the activist’s claim that his father is black. King responded on Twitter to his legion of followers: “Every single person who knows me BEYOND Twitter, beyond trending topics and HIT PIECES, knows I have never lied about my race.”
The allegations reached a crescendo Wednesday when conservative media site Breitbart published a piece suggesting that King misled Oprah Winfrey by pretending to be biracial in order to receive a scholarship to Morehouse College. King, 35, attended the historically black college in Atlanta with a scholarship sponsored by Oprah. He responded on Twitter to Breitbart’s article: “I did not concoct a lie about my race to get into @Morehouse. I did not concoct a lie about my race to get an @Oprah scholarship.”
His lifelong friends also used social media to defend the activist. Willis Polk attested on Facebook to a white mob beating King “to a bloody pulp” in high school and accused city officials in Versailles, Ky., of covering up the hate crime. He also recalls that people in their rural town believed that King was biracial and often called him the n-word “just as much, if not more than, myself or any of my black friends and family.”
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What will happen when the slavery reparations program is phased in? Will he be paying or receiving reparations?
George Zimmerman a white hispanic.
This guy a black caucasian. What difference does it make??
Black like Bill Cliton.
In Arabic, it's Yahya, and in Chinese, it's Yüeh-han.
I heard a couple of 20 somethings talking about this at Starbucks yesterday so I listened in.
One said that “the guy is just another wigger”.
I had no idea what they were talking about. I had to google it.
Arabic! That’s it Arabic. Maybe Shaun Hill need to talk to CAIR and see if they might go with a Arab lives don’t matter either.
Parasitic White Tash P.O.S..............
Does he ever actually claim to be biracial?
“His story is beautifully difficult, and painful..."
This was described as defending him about a specific question about his race? Its not like people are asking to know his inner most secrets...its a specific question, and that seems like a pretty weird way to defend him if he was being honest.
Maybe it involved an Alien probing experiment that went bad ... beautifully difficult, and painfully bad ...
#BlackPrivilegeMatters
Oh interesting.
I found this, with a quick search:
http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/20/us/shaun-king-controversy/index.html
Sound fishy to me.
Didn’t I read earlier that a family member has already outed him and having white parents and that he is white?
I've always wanted to fly - so I guess I'm a bird.
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