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. đ
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 âOprah scholarshipâ 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 âpolice brutalityâ and âjustice correspondentâ for the liberal Daily Kos website who told Rebel magazine in 2012 that he was biracial, with the magazine reporting that he is the âson of a Caucasian mother and an African-American father.â He has also described himself as âmixed with a black familyâ 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 âdecades old racial tensions.â He claims to have been âthe focus of constant abuse of the resident rednecks of my school.â
Yet, in recent weeks, rumours have been circulating about his ethnicity. A 1995 police incident report lists Shaun Kingâs ethnicity as white. And blogger Vicki Pate, who has been assembling forensic accounts of Shaun Kingâs background and family tree on her blog, âRe-NewsIt!,â has published her findings.
What’s up with rich white people wanting to be black? Seems odd, quite odd. Suppressed sexual thing? đŻÂ I dunno.Â
Others (via Memeoraundum):Â New York Daily News, The Hayride, Raw Story, The Daily Caller, John Hawkins’ Right Wing News and TheBlaze.com
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