Rachel Dolezal 2.0, #BlackLivesMatter Activist Shaun King is White

Uhhhhh huhhhhh

 

I'm not sure how he can even claim to have kept his "complicated personal history" close to his chest.

If he identified as black as a teen, but everyone in his small town knew that his white mom was married to a white dad at the time of his birth, hasn't he been exposing his mother's "affair" for years?

 

Couldn't much of this mess be cleared up with a simple DNA test?

 

How many people in high school did you know their whole life story? How many did you even know their parents?

Sounds like you're a little nervous you might have fallen for some bullshit by Breitbart.

 

How do you know I'm black? Look at my friends!

Every friend I had was black, my girlfriends were black, I was seen as black, treated as black, and endured constant overt racism as a young black teenager.

I don't have the heart to tell him that race isn't determined by who you date, or who you're friends are.

 

Which story is more believable to you?

A. Living in a small Southern town in the 1970s, Shaun King's mother makes up a story about an interracial extramarital affair and consigns one of her children to a lower social status.

Or

Breitbart, a website known almost exclusively for printing deceptive race bait, printed a piece of deceptive race bait.

 

He looks black in the school picture. I would have thought he was black.

 

That comment was based on what he said here:

After that day when I was first asked if I was mixed, while I was still a very young child, kids and their well-intentioned parents began telling me they knew who my black father was, that I was so and so’s cousin, etc. This was in small-town Versailles, Kentucky, in the 1980s.

I think the guy is a fraud. Either way, I think it's funny to say anyone fell for some bullshit by Breitbart. The dude is one of the major figures in the #BlackLivesMatter movement. According to his birth certificate, both of his parents are white. Especially in light of the Rachel Dolezal story, that's a story. Should they have simply not reported it?

 

If those were the only two possibilities, I'd have to go with B. But you have left a few other plausible scenarios on the sidelines.

Edited: I meant to go with B.

 

We don't know what his mother told him.

We know what he now says his mother told him.

And, I'm still waiting for someone to explain to me why this wasn't a story.

 

It appears most likely to be an incorrect story.

 

If King is telling the truth, the better question is why it is a story. What Breitbart did to his mother is at least as bad, if not worse, than what Gawker did to the Conde Nast CFO, and everyone (correctly) flipped out over that breach of propriety.