Somehow, the race of #BlackLivesMatter activist Shaun King became big news over the last three days, not in any small part because King refused to answer questions like “Are you black?” with a simple yes or no, instead retreating temporarily and letting the question linger.
Media outlets as large as the New York Daily News, TMZ and CNN looked into King’s past for clues. CNN’s Don Lemon hosted a segment Wednesday night with several guests trying to explain the mystery of King’s race. Lemon concluded by saying he too had reached out and asked plainly if King was white or black, and received no response.
Today King, who writes for liberal site The Daily Kos, teased, “This is it. My whole story.”
https://twitter.com/ShaunKing/status/634498337299935236
He wasn’t kidding about the piece being his whole story. In a personal essay of about 600 million words, King says that his biological father is not the white man named on his birth certificate, but a “light-skinned black man” with whom his mother had an affair — one reason he didn’t want to broach the topic. “By the time I reached middle school, I fully identified myself not even as biracial, but just as black.”
So, the short answer: multiracial. Glad that’s settled once and for all … right?
It is genuinely horrifying to me that @ShaunKing was forced to write this: http://t.co/knXyMDluyI
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) August 20, 2015
@chrislhayes @Taniel @ShaunKing you'll be alright.
— EdAsante (@EdAsante77) August 20, 2015
https://twitter.com/gabino_58/status/634516240837537792
This is a flat out lie @ShaunKing — we never reported on any of that here at @theblaze http://t.co/nIBMsbykqB pic.twitter.com/L6LT45QSGW
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) August 20, 2015
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How ironic that @ShaunKing attacks us as liars in an article — and lies to do it!
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) August 20, 2015
.@ShaunKing is using the "I have black friends & dated black women" defense. I remember when that was racist. #Caring pic.twitter.com/cjgvdWJo3X
— Derek Hunter (@derekahunter) August 20, 2015
@derekahunter This new "I identify as…" gives every kook out there an out when they are caught lying. Shaun King is just the latest.
— Bob Tapper Willits (@tapper) August 20, 2015
https://twitter.com/mossjasonm/status/634508141909176321
@derekahunter @ShaunKing Could have SWORN someone posted a form on which he checked "white" as his race.
— ❌Texas Grandma❌?? (@Donnam8470Donna) August 20, 2015
@oliverdarcy @jtLOL @ShaunKing @theblaze he's lied about who he is, I'm pretty sure he's not worried about lying about this
— Scottie (@BuffaloBlueBear) August 20, 2015
https://twitter.com/martian_munk/status/634501633360154625
@martian_munk @ShaunKing @CassandraRules didn't you read the post?
— Julie (@arealmintjuliep) August 20, 2015
@arealmintjuliep @ShaunKing @CassandraRules So he didn't lie to gain a scholarship? He admitted it in a previous tweet.
— Snorting Hobbit Dandruff Off Of Gandalf's Beard (@martian_munk) August 21, 2015
https://twitter.com/menoone71/status/634505867568771073
@ShaunKing you can support black people & not be black bro. You clearly are white & that's ok ?
— James (@Mister3MMA) August 20, 2015
https://twitter.com/Soulmech/status/634511584342245376
. @ShaunKing . Ahhhh, a made up a fake story, how sweet. Blacks are turning on U because you're another #RachelDolezal #tribalism
— Chris Tatasciore (@ICTATAS) August 21, 2015
.@ShaunKing You're attacked because you are a FRAUD Shaun. Also, own up to your 'manhood' & refrain from bashing your own mother #RealTalk
— ?? Consmover ?? (@consmover) August 20, 2015
https://twitter.com/RogerLee2015/status/634508402497032193
https://twitter.com/alwaysonoffense/status/634502920478830593
As usual, King concludes by repeating that he has a single mission to which he has dedicated himself: “My focus will continue to be ending police brutality. I believe it is the pre-eminent civil rights issue of modern America and that, together, we can fight against it effectively.”
If @shaunking wanted to feel the pain of black Americans, hang in the urban areas to see what liberal agenda has done
Don't mock us dude!??
— Wayne Dupree ?? (@WayneDupreeShow) August 20, 2015
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