UPDATED: Again?!?!?: White dude pawning himself off as black

UPDATE: Shaun King has posted his defense. Quite frankly, I wish now that I never had written this or the other blog posting at all.

Oh Boy… this is just too rich. 🙄

Via Breitbart.com:

An investigative blogger has accused Shaun King, a key figure in the Black Lives Matter movement, of misleading media icon Oprah Winfrey by pretending to be biracial in order to qualify for an “Oprah scholarship” to historically black Morehouse College. The blogger says King is white and has been lying about his ethnicity for years.

King is a high-profile campaigner against “police brutality” and “justice correspondent” for the liberal Daily Kos website who told Rebel magazine in 2012 that he was biracial, with the magazine reporting that he is the “son of a Caucasian mother and an African-American father.” He has also described himself as “mixed with a black family” on Twitter.

King has been lionised by the press, praised as hero of civil rights and social activism.He has written extensively about a childhood in which he was terrorized by “decades old racial tensions.” He claims to have been “the focus of constant abuse of the resident rednecks of my school.”

Yet, in recent weeks, rumours have been circulating about his ethnicity. A 1995 police incident report lists Shaun King’s ethnicity as white. And blogger Vicki Pate, who has been assembling forensic accounts of Shaun King’s background and family tree on her blog, “Re-NewsIt!,” has published her findings.

What’s up with rich white people wanting to be black? Seems odd, quite odd. Suppressed sexual thing? 😯 I dunno. 

Others (via Memeoraundum): New York Daily News, The Hayride, Raw Story, The Daily Caller, John Hawkins’ Right Wing News and TheBlaze.com

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