Well, it seems that Shaun King, the young man accused of posing as a black man, has written his defense; and boy is it ever something to read. I very highly recommend that you read it all too.
Via Daily Kos:
Over the past 72 hours I have been attacked with lies by the conservative media, lies that have been picked up by the traditional media and spread further. I have kept silent at the advice of friends and mentors, but I will do so no longer.
The reports about my race, about my past, and about the pain I’ve endured are all lies. My mother is a senior citizen. I refuse to speak in detail about the nature of my mother’s past, or her sexual partners, and I am gravely embarrassed to even be saying this now, but I have been told for most of my life that the white man on my birth certificate is not my biological father and that my actual biological father is a light-skinned black man. My mother and I have discussed her affair. She was a young woman in a bad relationship and I have no judgment. This has been my lived reality for nearly 30 of my 35 years on earth. I am not ashamed of it, or of who I am—never that—but I was advised by my pastor nearly 20 years ago that this was not a mess of my doing and it was not my responsibility to fix it. All of my siblings and I have different parents. I’m actually not even sure how many siblings I have. It is horrifying to me that my most personal information, for the most nefarious reasons, has been forced out into the open and that my private past and pain have been used as jokes and fodder to discredit me and the greater movement for justice in America. I resent that lies have been reported as truth and that the obviously racist intentions of these attacks have been consistently downplayed at my expense and that of my family.
This is the part that bothers me:
Not one person behind these reports has remotely good intentions—quite the opposite, in fact. Since these articles have been released, my family and I have received constant death threats and nonstop racist harassment. Multiple members of my family have been harassed and we now have been forced to take extra security measures for our safety.
While I think that someone representing themselves as something that they are not, is not a good thing. Someone’s family getting death threats is not a good thing either. I mean, if you have a beef with Shaun, fine. But, attacking his family is out of bounds. 😡 I wrote about this story, because I thought it was newsworthy and not because I wanted someone’s family threatened. I really hope that the blogger that started this is really proud of herself, the bitch. 😡
If I were Shaun King, I would be getting me some legal council and suing the people that wrote this piece, because it rises to the level of slander. Shaun in this piece, mentions his Mother and that he really does love her dearly; which is something that I can totally relate to. I publically apologize to Shaun and his mother for ever even writing about this. Something told me that this was nothing more than politicized slander and I was right about that.
Others: (via Memeorandum): Washington Post, BREITBART.COM, The Daily Caller, Los Angeles Times, Daily Mail, BPI Campus, Althouse, UPROXX, The Week, Raw Story,msnbc.com and Politico
