Fuzzylumpkins/Trill Clinton's boy Shaun King exposed as a fraud

[TSA]

Not surprising this guy is being exposed again as a liar. To refresh your memory this was the guy at the forefront of pushing the LIE of "hands up, don't shoot" in the Mike Brown case.

http://dailycaller.com/2015/07/21/leading-ferguson-activists-hate-crime-claim-disputed-by-police-report-detective/

Shaun King, the so-called “Facebook pastor” who has become one of the leading activists in the Black Lives Matter movement, has often told the story of a brutal, racially-motivated beating he suffered in 1995 as a sophomore at a rural Kentucky high school. King, 35, has related the story of the hate crime on his blogs and in his recent self-help book, seemingly to bolster his credibility as an activist and as a self-help guru.

But King’s telling of the assault does not match up with a police report from the case. Details provided to The Daily Caller by the detective who investigated the incident, which occurred at Woodford County High School in Versailles on March 1, 1995, cast even more doubt on King’s claims.

While King has said that he was attacked by up to a dozen “racist” and “redneck” students, official records show that the altercation involved only one other student. And while King has claimed that he suffered a “brutal” beating that left him clinging to life, the police report characterized King’s injuries as “minor.”

At least two profiles written about King have asserted that the assault was one of Kentucky’s first registered hate crimes. But Keith Broughton, the former Versailles police detective, told TheDC that the case was never classified as a hate incident.

And none of the sources that keep track of hate crimes, such as the FBI, have records of one having occurred at the high school at that time.

King became a prominent national figure in the aftermath of the fatal police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., when he and a small group of online activists used their Twitter accounts to draw attention to the case.

King was one of the activists who pushed the “hands up, don’t shoot” narrative, which was based on the claim that Brown was surrendering with his hands up when he was shot. That claim was disputed by numerous witnesses to the shooting.

King parlayed his activism into a gig as a justice blogger at the left-wing website Daily Kos. He has also helped form a group called Justice Together. King sits on the board of directors with fellow Ferguson activist DeRay McKesson, Brown family attorney Benjamin Crump, and Glenn Greenwald, the reporter who has worked closely with NSA whistle-blower Edward Snowden.



After Ferguson, King became a prominent player in the case of Tamir Rice, the 12-year-old Cleveland boy killed by a police officer as he was holding a fake gun in November. He also offered a $10,000 bounty anyone who would remove the Confederate flag from the South Carolina state capitol grounds.

Prior to his entree into activist circles, King was the pastor of the Atlanta-based Courageous Church. He left in 2011 amid a conflict with the church’s board of directors, but while in charge, King began using Facebook and Twitter to help fund philanthropic efforts. He started several companies, including HopeMob, Twit Change and A Home in Haiti, which was formed in the aftermath of the January 2010 earthquake there.

Those endeavors have raised questions as well. Though they’ve generated millions of dollars in donations, the Internet is littered with accusations that King has used these organizations and fundraisers to enrich himself. King has denied all of those accusations, but has provided little transparency into where funds he raised have gone.

In promoting his philanthropic and activist work, King tells about his 1995 assault for two purposes. Not only does the story bolster King’s place as a civil rights activist, he has used it as a motivational tool to teach his followers about overcoming adversity.

“Everything about my physical life changed on March 8, 1995,” King wrote in “The Power of 100!,” a self-help book he published this year. Besides getting the date of the incident wrong, King’s story does not match up with the official record.

“For the year and a half of high school before that day, I had been harassed almost daily by a growing group of self-proclaimed rednecks,” King wrote, claiming that he had been forced to fight, had his books and belongings thrown in the trash, and been called racist names.

On his blog, King claimed that he was “mobbed and beaten to a pulp by a group of racist teenagers.” Elsewhere he has said that “a group of guys” in the school beat him “within a few inches of my life.”

A March 2012 profile of King in Rebel Magazine stated that “during his freshman year of high school, Shaun King was savagely beaten by a dozen self-described ‘rednecks’ in one of Kentucky’s first registered hate crimes.”

In March 2013, Forbes magazine reported that “as a fifteen-year-old [King] was beaten so badly in what was one of the first registered hate crimes in the state that he needed a series of surgeries that required two years.”

King has repeatedly stated that he suffered fractures to his face, ribs and back, and required three spine surgeries because of that beating. A fellow classmate of King’s who remembered hearing about the fight said that King left the school after the incident and began attending another one nearby.

When TheDC called the cell phone number listed at the end of King’s book — and registered to Courageous Church — a man answered and said, “Sorry, you have the wrong number, man,” and hung up.

Reached by email, King declined to comment and speculated about TheDC’s motivations.

“Feel free to roll with the story you’ve compiled as is without my input. I’ve spoken extensively about my experiences and stand by them,” King said.

TheDC sent a follow-up email encouraging King to provide any information to support his past comments. “I pass Chuck,” he responded. “The Daily Caller, in my opinion, is hateful and has nothing but bad intentions with this piece from my childhood over 20 years ago.”

“You should run your piece as is and let it stand on its own merit man if you feel good about it.”

There is no evidence besides King’s claims that the incident at Woodford County High School was ever classified as a hate crime. Reached by TheDC, the FBI field office in Louisville said it has no record of a hate crime from that time period or location.

The police report from the incident also had no mention of race being a factor in the assault. Furthermore, Keith Broughton, the detective who worked the case, told TheDC that the incident was not reported as a hate crime.

In fact, Broughton said that the incident report characterized it as a one-on-one fight and not a gang attack. Broughton said that according to a more detailed case report not provided to TheDC, the suspect claimed that a conflict involving his girlfriend is what led to the fight with King.

The assailant said at the time that two weeks prior to the fight his girlfriend was involved in a confrontation with King over a broken CD. A day or two before the fight, the suspect said that King demanded that the suspect’s girlfriend pay him back for the CD. According to Broughton, the suspect and his girlfriend claimed that King had pushed her.

According to the police report, Woodford County High School principal Peter LeFaivre called police to report that a student had been assaulted by another student. The victim, King, had been transported by his mother to the local hospital. King is not listed by name in the report, though his mother is.

Broughton went to the hospital and spoke with King, who is bi-racial, and his mother, according to the report. Though King claimed to have suffered fractures to his face as the result of being stomped by steel-toed boots, Broughton reported at the time only that “the victim had an abrasion to his right cheek.” He did report that King was “complaining of possible rib and back injuries” but that, overall, he suffered an “apparent minor injury.”

Broughton then went to the school to meet with LeFaivre, who provided copies of statements from students and a teacher who witnessed the assault. None of those statements said that the assault involved a racial element. LeFaivre has since retired and could not be reached for comment.

The parent of the accused student arrived at the school and took custody of him, according to the report. Like King’s, the student’s name is redacted.



In his self-help book, King described the day in question in more dramatic terms.

He said he was near the gym with some friends when he saw a group of 25 students gathered around what he thought was a fight that had just ended. King said that he had to walk through the crowd to get to band class.

“The closer I got to the crowd, though, the stranger it seemed,” King wrote. “Had I known that I was about to enter into the wolf’s den, I would have turned around.”

King wrote that a “faceless male voice” said, “There he is. That’s Shaun King.”

King said he continued walking through the crowd, but that “the cluster of bodies had stiffened up around me.” Then he was attacked by the large group, he wrote.

“About midway through, I felt a heavy thud on the back of my head. In an instant the crowd swarmed me and started punching from every angle. What felt like an hour but was probably more like fifteen seconds passed before I fell to the ground. Stomped from my face to my feet with steel-toed boots, I heard voices laughing at my broken body as I involuntarily curled up into the fetal position.”

King said that a few fellow classmates pushed their way to help him and “found me a bloody mess on the floor.”

“I was physically ruined,” he wrote. “Fractures in my face and ribs, permanently injured sinuses and a severely damaged spine.”

“I’ve been in some kind of pain every day of my life.”

King has made reference on his blog to his mother’s three-year legal battle with the Woodford County school district over the assault. TheDC contacted the school district to find out if a lawsuit had ever been filed in the case. An official said that records don’t go back that far. Broughton told TheDC that the school paid to replace King’s glasses, which were apparently broken during the fight.


:lol fucking fraud

[Clipper Nation]

Wow, you mean an SJW is lying about their background and exploiting societal tensions for VictimBux? You don't say!

[HI-FI]

Nigga should write for Rolling Stone.

[SupremeGuy]

Wow, you mean an SJW is lying about their background and exploiting societal tensions for VictimBux? You don't say!I'm as shocked as you are, CN.

This whole faux movement is nothing more than an excuse for black racists to push their pro-black/anti-White rhetoric without any of the backlash their hate speech would normally receive.

[ElNono]

who is this nigga, tbh?

[TSA]

who is this nigga, tbh?

Lead faggot during Mike Brown fiasco that continuously spread lies through social media ie: "hands up don't shoot". Finally being exposed for the lying sack of white guilt shit he is.

[ElNono]

Lead faggot during Mike Brown fiasco that continuously spread lies through social media ie: "hands up don't shoot". Finally being exposed for the lying sack of white guilt shit he is.

thanks

[TeyshaBlue]

:lol "Pastor"

[Clipper Nation]

Where's that cuck Blake? Usually he loves to make fun of Christians. Why is he so silent about this particular pastor?

[TSA]

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:lol

[vy65]

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I don't think I'm on Fuzzy's ign:lolre list. I should copypasta CN's posts just so that he sees them

[Clipper Nation]

So why isn't boutons_deux in this thread right now ranting about "Bible-humpers" and "Christian Taliban supremacists"? You'd think he'd be all over this fraud of a pastor.

[Blake]

Where's that cuck Blake? Usually he loves to make fun of Christians. Why is he so silent about this particular pastor?

Tldr. cliff notes sons.

[Clipper Nation]

Tldr. cliff notes sons.

The Christian pastor behind the "hands up don't shoot" lie, who was also heavily involved in the Tamir Rice and Confederate flag coverage and is one of the leaders of #BlackLivesMatter, just got caught lying about a vicious "hate crime" he supposedly was a victim of in 1995 that didn't happen the way he claims, all to advance his attempt at a self-help guru career.

It's pretty odd that you normally have an insatiable appetite for stories about Christian pastors being idiots, but suddenly this particular story is "tl;dr" and you need "Cliff Notes."

[Th'Pusher]

The Christian pastor behind the "hands up don't shoot" lie, who was also heavily involved in the Tamir Rice and Confederate flag coverage and is one of the leaders of #BlackLivesMatter, just got caught lying about a vicious "hate crime" he supposedly was a victim of in 1995 that didn't happen the way he claims, all to advance his attempt at a self-help guru career.

It's pretty odd that you normally have an insatiable appetite for stories about Christian pastors being idiots, but suddenly this particular story is "tl;dr" and you need "Cliff Notes."
Does he have a paid subscription based website like Ron Paul does? Honest question :lol

[Clipper Nation]

Does he have a paid subscription based website like Ron Paul does? Honest question :lol

How much money does your bull let you spend on DailyKos subscriptions? :lol

https://www.dailykos.com/subscribe

[TSA]

I don't think I'm on Fuzzy's ign:lolre list. I should copypasta CN's posts just so that he sees them

Do me a favor and quote the article. I saw that faggot lumpkins in here and not a peep. Don't know if he's got this account on ignore too or he is just a giant pussy that can't back up his boy.

[Clipper Nation]

Wow, still no mockery of Christianity from the usual suspects ITT. They can't stop obsessing over that FOX News poll, though. Why is that?

[lakerhaterade]

Wow, still no mockery of Christianity from the usual suspects ITT. They can't stop obsessing over that FOX News poll, though. Why is that?
They're shills.

[DisAsTerBot]

Wow, still no mockery of Christianity from the usual suspects ITT. They can't stop obsessing over that FOX News poll, though. Why is that?

i didn't read the whole article but my guess would be because his involvement in the mike brown case and others has little or nothing to do with Christianity, in a federal policy sense.

[vy65]

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Not surprising this guy is being exposed again as a liar. To refresh your memory this was the guy at the forefront of pushing the LIE of "hands up, don't shoot" in the Mike Brown case.

http://dailycaller.com/2015/07/21/leading-ferguson-activists-hate-crime-claim-disputed-by-police-report-detective/

Shaun King, the so-called “Facebook pastor” who has become one of the leading activists in the Black Lives Matter movement, has often told the story of a brutal, racially-motivated beating he suffered in 1995 as a sophomore at a rural Kentucky high school. King, 35, has related the story of the hate crime on his blogs and in his recent self-help book, seemingly to bolster his credibility as an activist and as a self-help guru.

But King’s telling of the assault does not match up with a police report from the case. Details provided to The Daily Caller by the detective who investigated the incident, which occurred at Woodford County High School in Versailles on March 1, 1995, cast even more doubt on King’s claims.

While King has said that he was attacked by up to a dozen “racist” and “redneck” students, official records show that the altercation involved only one other student. And while King has claimed that he suffered a “brutal” beating that left him clinging to life, the police report characterized King’s injuries as “minor.”

At least two profiles written about King have asserted that the assault was one of Kentucky’s first registered hate crimes. But Keith Broughton, the former Versailles police detective, told TheDC that the case was never classified as a hate incident.

And none of the sources that keep track of hate crimes, such as the FBI, have records of one having occurred at the high school at that time.

King became a prominent national figure in the aftermath of the fatal police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., when he and a small group of online activists used their Twitter accounts to draw attention to the case.

King was one of the activists who pushed the “hands up, don’t shoot” narrative, which was based on the claim that Brown was surrendering with his hands up when he was shot. That claim was disputed by numerous witnesses to the shooting.

King parlayed his activism into a gig as a justice blogger at the left-wing website Daily Kos. He has also helped form a group called Justice Together. King sits on the board of directors with fellow Ferguson activist DeRay McKesson, Brown family attorney Benjamin Crump, and Glenn Greenwald, the reporter who has worked closely with NSA whistle-blower Edward Snowden.



After Ferguson, King became a prominent player in the case of Tamir Rice, the 12-year-old Cleveland boy killed by a police officer as he was holding a fake gun in November. He also offered a $10,000 bounty anyone who would remove the Confederate flag from the South Carolina state capitol grounds.

Prior to his entree into activist circles, King was the pastor of the Atlanta-based Courageous Church. He left in 2011 amid a conflict with the church’s board of directors, but while in charge, King began using Facebook and Twitter to help fund philanthropic efforts. He started several companies, including HopeMob, Twit Change and A Home in Haiti, which was formed in the aftermath of the January 2010 earthquake there.

Those endeavors have raised questions as well. Though they’ve generated millions of dollars in donations, the Internet is littered with accusations that King has used these organizations and fundraisers to enrich himself. King has denied all of those accusations, but has provided little transparency into where funds he raised have gone.

In promoting his philanthropic and activist work, King tells about his 1995 assault for two purposes. Not only does the story bolster King’s place as a civil rights activist, he has used it as a motivational tool to teach his followers about overcoming adversity.

“Everything about my physical life changed on March 8, 1995,” King wrote in “The Power of 100!,” a self-help book he published this year. Besides getting the date of the incident wrong, King’s story does not match up with the official record.

“For the year and a half of high school before that day, I had been harassed almost daily by a growing group of self-proclaimed rednecks,” King wrote, claiming that he had been forced to fight, had his books and belongings thrown in the trash, and been called racist names.

On his blog, King claimed that he was “mobbed and beaten to a pulp by a group of racist teenagers.” Elsewhere he has said that “a group of guys” in the school beat him “within a few inches of my life.”

A March 2012 profile of King in Rebel Magazine stated that “during his freshman year of high school, Shaun King was savagely beaten by a dozen self-described ‘rednecks’ in one of Kentucky’s first registered hate crimes.”

In March 2013, Forbes magazine reported that “as a fifteen-year-old [King] was beaten so badly in what was one of the first registered hate crimes in the state that he needed a series of surgeries that required two years.”

King has repeatedly stated that he suffered fractures to his face, ribs and back, and required three spine surgeries because of that beating. A fellow classmate of King’s who remembered hearing about the fight said that King left the school after the incident and began attending another one nearby.

When TheDC called the cell phone number listed at the end of King’s book — and registered to Courageous Church — a man answered and said, “Sorry, you have the wrong number, man,” and hung up.

Reached by email, King declined to comment and speculated about TheDC’s motivations.

“Feel free to roll with the story you’ve compiled as is without my input. I’ve spoken extensively about my experiences and stand by them,” King said.

TheDC sent a follow-up email encouraging King to provide any information to support his past comments. “I pass Chuck,” he responded. “The Daily Caller, in my opinion, is hateful and has nothing but bad intentions with this piece from my childhood over 20 years ago.”

“You should run your piece as is and let it stand on its own merit man if you feel good about it.”

There is no evidence besides King’s claims that the incident at Woodford County High School was ever classified as a hate crime. Reached by TheDC, the FBI field office in Louisville said it has no record of a hate crime from that time period or location.

The police report from the incident also had no mention of race being a factor in the assault. Furthermore, Keith Broughton, the detective who worked the case, told TheDC that the incident was not reported as a hate crime.

In fact, Broughton said that the incident report characterized it as a one-on-one fight and not a gang attack. Broughton said that according to a more detailed case report not provided to TheDC, the suspect claimed that a conflict involving his girlfriend is what led to the fight with King.

The assailant said at the time that two weeks prior to the fight his girlfriend was involved in a confrontation with King over a broken CD. A day or two before the fight, the suspect said that King demanded that the suspect’s girlfriend pay him back for the CD. According to Broughton, the suspect and his girlfriend claimed that King had pushed her.

According to the police report, Woodford County High School principal Peter LeFaivre called police to report that a student had been assaulted by another student. The victim, King, had been transported by his mother to the local hospital. King is not listed by name in the report, though his mother is.

Broughton went to the hospital and spoke with King, who is bi-racial, and his mother, according to the report. Though King claimed to have suffered fractures to his face as the result of being stomped by steel-toed boots, Broughton reported at the time only that “the victim had an abrasion to his right cheek.” He did report that King was “complaining of possible rib and back injuries” but that, overall, he suffered an “apparent minor injury.”

Broughton then went to the school to meet with LeFaivre, who provided copies of statements from students and a teacher who witnessed the assault. None of those statements said that the assault involved a racial element. LeFaivre has since retired and could not be reached for comment.

The parent of the accused student arrived at the school and took custody of him, according to the report. Like King’s, the student’s name is redacted.



In his self-help book, King described the day in question in more dramatic terms.

He said he was near the gym with some friends when he saw a group of 25 students gathered around what he thought was a fight that had just ended. King said that he had to walk through the crowd to get to band class.

“The closer I got to the crowd, though, the stranger it seemed,” King wrote. “Had I known that I was about to enter into the wolf’s den, I would have turned around.”

King wrote that a “faceless male voice” said, “There he is. That’s Shaun King.”

King said he continued walking through the crowd, but that “the cluster of bodies had stiffened up around me.” Then he was attacked by the large group, he wrote.

“About midway through, I felt a heavy thud on the back of my head. In an instant the crowd swarmed me and started punching from every angle. What felt like an hour but was probably more like fifteen seconds passed before I fell to the ground. Stomped from my face to my feet with steel-toed boots, I heard voices laughing at my broken body as I involuntarily curled up into the fetal position.”

King said that a few fellow classmates pushed their way to help him and “found me a bloody mess on the floor.”

“I was physically ruined,” he wrote. “Fractures in my face and ribs, permanently injured sinuses and a severely damaged spine.”

“I’ve been in some kind of pain every day of my life.”

King has made reference on his blog to his mother’s three-year legal battle with the Woodford County school district over the assault. TheDC contacted the school district to find out if a lawsuit had ever been filed in the case. An official said that records don’t go back that far. Broughton told TheDC that the school paid to replace King’s glasses, which were apparently broken during the fight.


:lol fucking fraud

[Blake]

The Christian pastor behind the "hands up don't shoot" lie, who was also heavily involved in the Tamir Rice and Confederate flag coverage and is one of the leaders of #BlackLivesMatter, just got caught lying about a vicious "hate crime" he supposedly was a victim of in 1995 that didn't happen the way he claims, all to advance his attempt at a self-help guru career.

It's pretty odd that you normally have an insatiable appetite for stories about Christian pastors being idiots, but suddenly this particular story is "tl;dr" and you need "Cliff Notes."

ok

So that guy is a fraud?
frauds are bad.
Therefore that guy is bad, allegedly.

And oh yeah, Christianity is a fraud.
Therefore Christianity is bad.
Bad just Like he guy in the op, allegedly.

You good now?

[Blake]

Dp

[Oh, Gee!!]

They're shills.

they get paid by the National Atheists Association to talk shit on a spurs message board. Typical libtards

[Blake]

they get paid by the National Atheists Association to talk shit on a spurs message board. Typical libtards

The only downside is having to shill in church on Sundays. But the benefits are great.

[FuzzyLumpkins]

Why is this my boy? I cited one FB post that asked me to look at google maps and check for myself.

You found one police report that seems to disagree. OTOH, a little critical thinking would note that he was very carefully cherry picking inconsistencies instead of giving a full reporting of what the detective interviewed said as opposed to the incident report as opposed to the mystery report that the detective alluded to as opposed to the state police's report as opposed to court proceedings.

Nope he wants to wave his hands at the one and pretend taht is a valid basis to make a judgment. I didn't know shit about him but it is hilarious watching you guys try and defame a civil rights type. White guilt much?

Bunch of mental fucking midgets. And it's hilarious that counselor crayola took time off from getting coffee for his betters to try and troll me.

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Going to have to move to another account, dimwit.

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Lol, putting people on ignore and then posting that you have them on ignore

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:lol

[vy65]

Am I on ignore?

[Clipper Nation]

Lol, putting people on ignore and then posting that you have them on ignore
And reading all those people's posts while pretending to ignore us.

[FuzzyLumpkins]

Am I on ignore?

Nah. Like I said you miss the point and I see no purpose in explaining it to you.

[vy65]

Nah.

Why not?

[FuzzyLumpkins]

Why not?

Stupid people ask questions that were already answered. Good job.

[vy65]

Stupid people ask questions that were already answered. Good job.

You're right. If you had answered this question, I'd be stupid for asking it again, nooglet.

[FuzzyLumpkins]

You're right. If you had answered this question, I'd be stupid for asking it again, nooglet.

Okay then I will help. You can universalize the original statement to anything you ask. I figured that was implied but I guess not.

[Clipper Nation]

i didn't read the whole article but my guess would be because his involvement in the mike brown case and others has little or nothing to do with Christianity, in a federal policy sense.
My guess is that this pastor fits the liberal agenda, so he's exempt from liberals' mockery of Christians.

[vy65]

Okay then I will help. You can universalize the original statement to anything you ask. I figured that was implied but I guess not.


tl;dr don't care about to hear you repeat shit from your intro to logic class textbook

you tout being a superior man, you have half this board on ignore. you're a fucking coward.

[FuzzyLumpkins]

Oh good. I've gotten the "I don't care either" response.

[Clipper Nation]

Turns out Fraud King is the male version of Rachel Dolezal:

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/08/19/did-black-lives-matter-organiser-shaun-king-mislead-oprah-winfrey-by-pretending-to-be-biracial/

[TheSanityAnnex]

Damn his own website going in on the Fraud King :lol

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/07/24/1405246/-Is-there-something-fishy-about-Shaun-King#

Earlier today, I read this article about Shaun King on The Daily Caller:

http://dailycaller.com/... (http://dailycaller.com/2015/07/21/leading-ferguson-activists-hate-crime-claim-disputed-by-police-report-detective/)
While I know that it's in a right-wing publication, there was something that prevented me from instantly dismissing the article--i.e. the fact that I've seen a number of people on Daily Kos complain that Shaun plays fast and loose with the truth. So I started to do some digging on the Internet and found a lot of information which, if true, makes me very concerned about Shaun, his motives, and how his actions could reflect badly on this site and be used to smear the Black Lives Matter movement.
Here are links to some of the information I found: they include threads about Shaun and his motives on an African-American discussion site (thankfully, the accusation that he stole money from Tamir Rice's family seems to have been debunked, but a number of other troubling accusations are raised), an article from Wired about his involvement in a Haitian charity, comments from unhappy participants in a Kickstarter campaign he organized, and another source whose legitimacy I can't vouch for:
http://www.lipstickalley.com/... (http://www.lipstickalley.com/showthread.php/814886-Activist-Shaun-King-Exposed-For-Allegedly-Stealing-Funds-Raised?)
http://haitirewired.wired.com/... (http://haitirewired.wired.com/profiles/blogs/using-the-web-celebrity-and)
https://www.kickstarter.com/... (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/shaunking/the-100-life-goals-book-project/comments)
https://storify.com/... (https://storify.com/Astrochologist/shaun-king-charity-cons-exposed)
There are a lot of other disturbing allegations about Shaun King that can easily be found via Google--in fact, if you search on his name it autocompletes with "con man."
Is there anything to all this, or is it some kind of organized smear campaign? And, if it is a smear campaign, how does it involve so many different sites, publications and individuals?

[Trill Clinton]

Damn his own website going in on the Fraud King :lol

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/07/24/1405246/-Is-there-something-fishy-about-Shaun-King#

Earlier today, I read this article about Shaun King on The Daily Caller:

http://dailycaller.com/... (http://dailycaller.com/2015/07/21/leading-ferguson-activists-hate-crime-claim-disputed-by-police-report-detective/)
While I know that it's in a right-wing publication, there was something that prevented me from instantly dismissing the article--i.e. the fact that I've seen a number of people on Daily Kos complain that Shaun plays fast and loose with the truth. So I started to do some digging on the Internet and found a lot of information which, if true, makes me very concerned about Shaun, his motives, and how his actions could reflect badly on this site and be used to smear the Black Lives Matter movement.
Here are links to some of the information I found: they include threads about Shaun and his motives on an African-American discussion site (thankfully, the accusation that he stole money from Tamir Rice's family seems to have been debunked, but a number of other troubling accusations are raised), an article from Wired about his involvement in a Haitian charity, comments from unhappy participants in a Kickstarter campaign he organized, and another source whose legitimacy I can't vouch for:
http://www.lipstickalley.com/... (http://www.lipstickalley.com/showthread.php/814886-Activist-Shaun-King-Exposed-For-Allegedly-Stealing-Funds-Raised?)
http://haitirewired.wired.com/... (http://haitirewired.wired.com/profiles/blogs/using-the-web-celebrity-and)
https://www.kickstarter.com/... (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/shaunking/the-100-life-goals-book-project/comments)
https://storify.com/... (https://storify.com/Astrochologist/shaun-king-charity-cons-exposed)
There are a lot of other disturbing allegations about Shaun King that can easily be found via Google--in fact, if you search on his name it autocompletes with "con man."
Is there anything to all this, or is it some kind of organized smear campaign? And, if it is a smear campaign, how does it involve so many different sites, publications and individuals?

this is from a section called the "troll diary"http://i62.tinypic.com/epev4p.png

you white supremacists don't have anything better to do than dig and fail? anyways, shaun is on twitter right now making all of you social detective warriors looking stupid.

[TheSanityAnnex]

this is from a section called the "troll diary"http://i62.tinypic.com/epev4p.png

you white supremacists don't have anything better to do than dig and fail? anyways, shaun is on twitter right now making all of you social detective warriors looking stupid.

You stupid fuck http://i62.tinypic.com/epev4p.png
This is from the website HE works for. http://i62.tinypic.com/epev4p.png

[TheSanityAnnex]

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/07/24/1405246/-Is-there-something-fishy-about-Shaun-King http://i62.tinypic.com/epev4p.png

[Clipper Nation]

this is from a section called the "troll diary"http://i62.tinypic.com/epev4p.png

you white supremacists don't have anything better to do than dig and fail? anyways, shaun is on twitter right now making all of you social detective warriors looking stupid.
Fraud King is a SAWM pretending to be a black man. He can't even decide whether he has three or four kids, or whether he had three or four spinal surgeries. He is a con artist who's lying to you, Fuzzy, and everyone else who's dumb enough to take him seriously. That's it and that's all.

[TheSanityAnnex]

Fraud King is pulling a FuzzyLumpkins and blocking all the twitter users

[Trill Clinton]

You stupid fuck http://i62.tinypic.com/epev4p.png
This is from the website HE works for. http://i62.tinypic.com/epev4p.png

he doesn't work there. anybody can make diary entries. he even said himself he joined just to make that entry http://i62.tinypic.com/epev4p.png

[TheSanityAnnex]

Fraud King works there.

[TheSanityAnnex]

Trill now that you are here a few questions

1. Do you believe Fraud King is white or white/black?

2. Do you believe Fraud King was jumped and hospitalized in high school like he's claimed?

[Trill Clinton]

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burt is a white supremacist who signed up to make a half ass exposal diary in the "trollish diary" section. he admitted he signed up just to troll and got called out in the comment section.

[Trill Clinton]

Trill now that you are here a few questions

1. Do you believe Fraud King is white or white/black?

2. Do you believe Fraud King was jumped and hospitalized in high school like he's claimed?

sorry fam, i just came here to slap you upside the head for falling for troll hit pieces. as a veteran white supremacist troll yourself, i expect better. peace.

[Clipper Nation]

634052231243935744

If Fraud King isn't lying about his race, why does he keep ducking such a simple question?

[TheSanityAnnex]

Not surprising this guy is being exposed again as a liar. To refresh your memory this was the guy at the forefront of pushing the LIE of "hands up, don't shoot" in the Mike Brown case.

http://dailycaller.com/2015/07/21/leading-ferguson-activists-hate-crime-claim-disputed-by-police-report-detective/

Shaun King, the so-called “Facebook pastor” who has become one of the leading activists in the Black Lives Matter movement, has often told the story of a brutal, racially-motivated beating he suffered in 1995 as a sophomore at a rural Kentucky high school. King, 35, has related the story of the hate crime on his blogs and in his recent self-help book, seemingly to bolster his credibility as an activist and as a self-help guru.

But King’s telling of the assault does not match up with a police report from the case. Details provided to The Daily Caller by the detective who investigated the incident, which occurred at Woodford County High School in Versailles on March 1, 1995, cast even more doubt on King’s claims.

While King has said that he was attacked by up to a dozen “racist” and “redneck” students, official records show that the altercation involved only one other student. And while King has claimed that he suffered a “brutal” beating that left him clinging to life, the police report characterized King’s injuries as “minor.”

At least two profiles written about King have asserted that the assault was one of Kentucky’s first registered hate crimes. But Keith Broughton, the former Versailles police detective, told TheDC that the case was never classified as a hate incident.

And none of the sources that keep track of hate crimes, such as the FBI, have records of one having occurred at the high school at that time.

King became a prominent national figure in the aftermath of the fatal police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., when he and a small group of online activists used their Twitter accounts to draw attention to the case.

King was one of the activists who pushed the “hands up, don’t shoot” narrative, which was based on the claim that Brown was surrendering with his hands up when he was shot. That claim was disputed by numerous witnesses to the shooting.

King parlayed his activism into a gig as a justice blogger at the left-wing website Daily Kos. He has also helped form a group called Justice Together. King sits on the board of directors with fellow Ferguson activist DeRay McKesson, Brown family attorney Benjamin Crump, and Glenn Greenwald, the reporter who has worked closely with NSA whistle-blower Edward Snowden.



After Ferguson, King became a prominent player in the case of Tamir Rice, the 12-year-old Cleveland boy killed by a police officer as he was holding a fake gun in November. He also offered a $10,000 bounty anyone who would remove the Confederate flag from the South Carolina state capitol grounds.

Prior to his entree into activist circles, King was the pastor of the Atlanta-based Courageous Church. He left in 2011 amid a conflict with the church’s board of directors, but while in charge, King began using Facebook and Twitter to help fund philanthropic efforts. He started several companies, including HopeMob, Twit Change and A Home in Haiti, which was formed in the aftermath of the January 2010 earthquake there.

Those endeavors have raised questions as well. Though they’ve generated millions of dollars in donations, the Internet is littered with accusations that King has used these organizations and fundraisers to enrich himself. King has denied all of those accusations, but has provided little transparency into where funds he raised have gone.

In promoting his philanthropic and activist work, King tells about his 1995 assault for two purposes. Not only does the story bolster King’s place as a civil rights activist, he has used it as a motivational tool to teach his followers about overcoming adversity.

“Everything about my physical life changed on March 8, 1995,” King wrote in “The Power of 100!,” a self-help book he published this year. Besides getting the date of the incident wrong, King’s story does not match up with the official record.

“For the year and a half of high school before that day, I had been harassed almost daily by a growing group of self-proclaimed rednecks,” King wrote, claiming that he had been forced to fight, had his books and belongings thrown in the trash, and been called racist names.

On his blog, King claimed that he was “mobbed and beaten to a pulp by a group of racist teenagers.” Elsewhere he has said that “a group of guys” in the school beat him “within a few inches of my life.”

A March 2012 profile of King in Rebel Magazine stated that “during his freshman year of high school, Shaun King was savagely beaten by a dozen self-described ‘rednecks’ in one of Kentucky’s first registered hate crimes.”

In March 2013, Forbes magazine reported that “as a fifteen-year-old [King] was beaten so badly in what was one of the first registered hate crimes in the state that he needed a series of surgeries that required two years.”

King has repeatedly stated that he suffered fractures to his face, ribs and back, and required three spine surgeries because of that beating. A fellow classmate of King’s who remembered hearing about the fight said that King left the school after the incident and began attending another one nearby.

When TheDC called the cell phone number listed at the end of King’s book — and registered to Courageous Church — a man answered and said, “Sorry, you have the wrong number, man,” and hung up.

Reached by email, King declined to comment and speculated about TheDC’s motivations.

“Feel free to roll with the story you’ve compiled as is without my input. I’ve spoken extensively about my experiences and stand by them,” King said.

TheDC sent a follow-up email encouraging King to provide any information to support his past comments. “I pass Chuck,” he responded. “The Daily Caller, in my opinion, is hateful and has nothing but bad intentions with this piece from my childhood over 20 years ago.”

“You should run your piece as is and let it stand on its own merit man if you feel good about it.”

There is no evidence besides King’s claims that the incident at Woodford County High School was ever classified as a hate crime. Reached by TheDC, the FBI field office in Louisville said it has no record of a hate crime from that time period or location.

The police report from the incident also had no mention of race being a factor in the assault. Furthermore, Keith Broughton, the detective who worked the case, told TheDC that the incident was not reported as a hate crime.

In fact, Broughton said that the incident report characterized it as a one-on-one fight and not a gang attack. Broughton said that according to a more detailed case report not provided to TheDC, the suspect claimed that a conflict involving his girlfriend is what led to the fight with King.

The assailant said at the time that two weeks prior to the fight his girlfriend was involved in a confrontation with King over a broken CD. A day or two before the fight, the suspect said that King demanded that the suspect’s girlfriend pay him back for the CD. According to Broughton, the suspect and his girlfriend claimed that King had pushed her.

According to the police report, Woodford County High School principal Peter LeFaivre called police to report that a student had been assaulted by another student. The victim, King, had been transported by his mother to the local hospital. King is not listed by name in the report, though his mother is.

Broughton went to the hospital and spoke with King, who is bi-racial, and his mother, according to the report. Though King claimed to have suffered fractures to his face as the result of being stomped by steel-toed boots, Broughton reported at the time only that “the victim had an abrasion to his right cheek.” He did report that King was “complaining of possible rib and back injuries” but that, overall, he suffered an “apparent minor injury.”

Broughton then went to the school to meet with LeFaivre, who provided copies of statements from students and a teacher who witnessed the assault. None of those statements said that the assault involved a racial element. LeFaivre has since retired and could not be reached for comment.

The parent of the accused student arrived at the school and took custody of him, according to the report. Like King’s, the student’s name is redacted.



In his self-help book, King described the day in question in more dramatic terms.

He said he was near the gym with some friends when he saw a group of 25 students gathered around what he thought was a fight that had just ended. King said that he had to walk through the crowd to get to band class.

“The closer I got to the crowd, though, the stranger it seemed,” King wrote. “Had I known that I was about to enter into the wolf’s den, I would have turned around.”

King wrote that a “faceless male voice” said, “There he is. That’s Shaun King.”

King said he continued walking through the crowd, but that “the cluster of bodies had stiffened up around me.” Then he was attacked by the large group, he wrote.

“About midway through, I felt a heavy thud on the back of my head. In an instant the crowd swarmed me and started punching from every angle. What felt like an hour but was probably more like fifteen seconds passed before I fell to the ground. Stomped from my face to my feet with steel-toed boots, I heard voices laughing at my broken body as I involuntarily curled up into the fetal position.”

King said that a few fellow classmates pushed their way to help him and “found me a bloody mess on the floor.”

“I was physically ruined,” he wrote. “Fractures in my face and ribs, permanently injured sinuses and a severely damaged spine.”

“I’ve been in some kind of pain every day of my life.”

King has made reference on his blog to his mother’s three-year legal battle with the Woodford County school district over the assault. TheDC contacted the school district to find out if a lawsuit had ever been filed in the case. An official said that records don’t go back that far. Broughton told TheDC that the school paid to replace King’s glasses, which were apparently broken during the fight.


:lol fucking fraud



Sorry fam, I posted the original article you continue to ignore.

You got your boy's back or what?

[TheSanityAnnex]

sorry fam, i just came here to slap you upside the head for falling for troll hit pieces. as a veteran white supremacist troll yourself, i expect better. peace.

Here you go fam, the OP.

Please address, no running away this time.

[Clipper Nation]

There it is - an admission of guilt, which he almost immediately deleted:

http://i.imgur.com/f8ZBVvW.jpg

Proof that it isn't fake: http://archive.is/srKwj

:lol Fraud King

[Clipper Nation]

http://i.imgur.com/4SOoxF5.jpg

[Clipper Nation]

:lmao Holy shit:

503202721655451648

No self-awareness at all.

[Clipper Nation]

634057906233700352

[TheSanityAnnex]

lol so he's like Koolaid_Man

[spurraider21]

:lol

[TheSanityAnnex]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CMy7SG9WUAAAOvr.jpg (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CMy7SG9WUAAAOvr.jpg)
http://i1150.photobucket.com/albums/o614/Jimbo1wy/king_zpsfqlxbejt.jpg (http://i1150.photobucket.com/albums/o614/Jimbo1wy/king_zpsfqlxbejt.jpg)

[TheSanityAnnex]

:lol @ the #blackerthanshaunking twitter shit going on

http://i.imgur.com/JHmmdZ4.png (http://i.imgur.com/JHmmdZ4.png)

[TheSanityAnnex]

http://i.imgur.com/tkORPWq.jpg (http://i.imgur.com/tkORPWq.jpg)

[TheSanityAnnex]

http://static1.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.2330787.1440003901!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/article_635/article-shaun3-0819.jpg (http://static1.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.2330787.1440003901!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/article_635/article-shaun3-0819.jpg)


:lol black as night

[TheSanityAnnex]

#1 trending story right now lol

[Clipper Nation]

The resident libtards aren't even trying to derail the thread like usual, they're just avoiding it and pretending it didn't happen :lol

[TheSanityAnnex]

The reactions from actual black people on twitter are comedy. I don't have a twitter or know how to post a tweet so ya'll are on your own.

[TeyshaBlue]

This is super important.

[TheSanityAnnex]

This is super important.

When it is about the agitator who almost single handedly sparked the riots in Ferguson, yes I would say it is important.

[Koolaid_Man]

When it is about the agitator who almost single handedly sparked the riots in Ferguson, yes I would say it is important.


You're one suck puppy....hopefully one day someone slows you down from all this race baiting.

[vy65]

This is super important.

Weak. One of the biggest Ferguson activists actively lying about his race while exacerbating racial tensions is important considering how much the national conversation is about race these days.

[Koolaid_Man]

Weak. One of the biggest Ferguson activists actively lying about his race while exacerbating racial tensions is important considering how much the national conversation is about race these days.

Side issue....focus on the racist cops not a freedom fighter....lots of good white folks died during the civil rights and civil war...

[TheSanityAnnex]

You're one suck puppy....hopefully one day someone slows you down from all this race baiting.

So a white guy calling a white guy white is now race baiting?

[TheSanityAnnex]

Side issue....focus on the racist cops not a freedom fighter....lots of good white folks died during the civil rights and civil war...

There is already a thread about the warrior cops out of control. This here thread is for Fraud King.

[Koolaid_Man]

There is already a thread about the warrior cops out of control. This here thread is for Fraud King.

Who cares..you always pick silly side shows to rail against....you need to be praying for rain so you dont go out of business...:lol

[TheSanityAnnex]

Who cares..you always pick silly side shows to rail against....you need to be praying for rain so you dont go out of business...:lol

Silly side show yet #1 trending in the country.

I source from three different countries year round, California crop is a drop in the bucket. And lol @ pray for rain with the upcoming wettest winter California will have seen in decades.

Impressive three strikes in a single post.

[Koolaid_Man]

So a white guy calling a white guy white is now race baiting?

You're calling out Trill and Kool....dont be intellectually dishonest but then again maybe you're just being yourself. :toast

[Koolaid_Man]

Silly side show yet #1 trending in the country.

I source from three different countries year round, California crop is a drop in the bucket. And lol @ pray for rain with the upcoming wettest winter California will have seen in decades.

Impressive three strikes in a single post.


And I dont swing...I pitch....so stay on your job if you naah I mean....:lol

[TeyshaBlue]

Pretty sure you're a catcher, tbh.

[Koolaid_Man]

Pretty sure you're a catcher, tbh.


You're so cute....Lil Tey tey...

[TeyshaBlue]

Im a giver.

[HI-FI]

http://i.imgur.com/tkORPWq.jpg (http://i.imgur.com/tkORPWq.jpg)
:lmao
you guys brought the goods. what is up with white liberals (especially on on ST) trying to be black. Trill, KAM, now this faggot.

[Koolaid_Man]

Im a giver.


Ohh yeah? Well bend over and show me.....no? Well get on your knees and blow me.....:lol

Puff puff give :lol

[TeyshaBlue]

Sorry. I had shrimp for dinner.

[FuzzyLumpkins]

so sad. bumping a callout thread is pretty desperate. the part of me not noticing it for hours was my favorite. Still haven't read it. Likely won't.

[Clipper Nation]

so sad. bumping a callout thread is pretty desperate. the part of me not noticing it for hours was my favorite. Still haven't read it. Likely won't.

You read every last word of it and you're mad that your boy has been exposed as a fraud with a fake Internet life. He's the Koolaid_Man/Rakaruva of SJW-ism.

[TheSanityAnnex]

so sad. bumping a callout thread is pretty desperate. the part of me not noticing it for hours was my favorite. Still haven't read it. Likely won't.

I didn't read anything and didn't notice it so much so I had to come in here and state such.

[Clipper Nation]

Family members confirm Fraud King is white:

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/08/20/family-members-and-childhood-friends-confirm-shaun-king-is-white/

Meanwhile, the race-baiter crowd can't own up and admit that they were played like fools:

http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2015/08/20/black-sheep-the-people-still-defending-shaun-king/

[FuzzyLumpkins]

So does this mean that he is now on your team and you no longer feel the need to discredit him? You hate police brutality and this guy right?

[TheSanityAnnex]

Fraud King is as black as your ignore list is applied

[Clipper Nation]

Looks like Fraud King lied about his finances too:

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/08/20/5-questions-for-shaun-king-that-have-nothing-to-do-with-race/

[Spurminator]

You realize that in your excitement about Shaun King being exposed, you're outing yourself as a Breitbart reader.

[FuzzyLumpkins]

You realize that in your excitement about Shaun King being exposed, you're outing yourself as a Breitbart reader.

That was exposed a long time ago. It lets Breitbart do their thinking for them and it's why they are anti-anti-cop brutality and make a distinguishment between that and being for cop brutality.

If you read the National Review from the 60s and the civil rights movement at that time it was the same thing. They weren't against the civil rights movement. They were just against any leader of the civil rights movement to come forth. They've been ad hominem about King for years at this point.

It's all a facade of bullshit.

[TheSanityAnnex]

It's all a facade of bullshit.
Describes your ignore list to a T

[Clipper Nation]

That was exposed a long time ago. It lets Breitbart do their thinking for them and it's why they are anti-anti-cop brutality and make a distinguishment between that and being for cop brutality.

If you read the National Review from the 60s and the civil rights movement at that time it was the same thing. They weren't against the civil rights movement. They were just against any leader of the civil rights movement to come forth. They've been ad hominem about King for years at this point.

It's all a facade of bullshit.
You're just like your boy Fraud King on Twitter yesterday. Lots of words and nothing to say.

[SupremeGuy]

:lol @ the #blackerthanshaunking twitter shit going on

http://i.imgur.com/JHmmdZ4.png (http://i.imgur.com/JHmmdZ4.png)


http://i.imgur.com/tkORPWq.jpg (http://i.imgur.com/tkORPWq.jpg):rollin

[boutons_deux]

Race, love, hate, and me: A distinctly American story (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/08/20/1413881/-Race-love-hate-and-me-A-distinctly-American-story)

http://images.dailykos.com/images/160167/small/Screen_Shot_2015-08-20_at_2.04.02_PM.png?1440093892

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.
For my entire life, I have held the cards of my complicated family history very close to my chest. I preferred to keep it that way and deeply resent that I have been forced to authenticate so many intimate details of my life to prove who I really am. This, in and of itself, is a form of violence. The same sources who falsely reported my family history—including Breitbart, the Daily Caller, and The Blaze—have also falsely reported that my wife and I were never in a brutal car accident, (https://twitter.com/shaunking/status/599938818368774144) that I lied about how many kids we have (we have 5 now, but have had more/less because we've fostered, adopted, housed many of our nieces and nephews), that I lied about my race to get a scholarship from Oprah, that I lied about how many back surgeries I’ve had, and more. All of those things were completely and totally false, but have simply been ignored at my expense. I don’t know why this shocks me, but it does.

Let me share some of my peculiar American story about race, my unwavering love for my mother, and my gratitude for an entire community of people who’ve walked with me through this for my entire life.

When I was 8 years old and in the second grade, black children first began asking me if I was “mixed.” In our house, my white mother, the sweetest woman ever and one of the best friends I’ve ever had, didn’t talk much about race. Most white families don’t. It’s part of the privilege. I didn’t even know what “mixed” was. This isn’t a secret. I’ve told this story publicly in front of thousands of people.

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. It happened regularly for years on end. While I didn’t have an understanding of the national dialogue on interracial children, I knew even as a young child that what people were telling meant something very peculiar and unflattering about my mother. I was aware at how different I looked than my siblings, but didn’t understand DNA or genealogy. They were my family and I loved them.

I adored my mother so much then, that I just didn’t have the nerve to ever bring these things up to her. I was a child and loved our care-free relationship. She had been married and divorced several times and by the time I was in second grade she was raising my brother and me as a single mom. By the time I reached middle school, I fully identified myself not even as biracial, but just as black. Of course, that was an oversimplification of my story, but that was what made sense at that time. Adults who loved and knew me, on many occasions sat me down and told me that I was black. As you could imagine, this had a profound impact on me and soon became my truth.

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. Never have I once identified myself as white. Not on forms, not for convenience or privilege, and not for fun and games, have I ever identified myself as white. I was never a white guy pretending to be black. Not once, ever, did it occur to me that I was being phony or fraudulent or fake. Quite the opposite—I always believed I was living the truest form of my self.

My freshman year in high school, another student and I got into a huge fight at a football game. The fight ended up setting off a powder keg of racial tensions at our school. The school paper back then referred to me as black and him as white. We were suspended for three days and while we were out, racial tensions boiled over so much that hundreds of white students staged a walkout because they had just been banned from wearing Confederate flags.
When I returned to school from that suspension, the collective anger of the racist white students was focused on me daily. Dozens of my close friends experienced this racist hate alongside me and it broke us down in the worst ways. I was consistently called ******, spat on, had a jar of tobacco spit thrown in my face, forced into fights, and on two different occasions chased by pickup trucks attempting to maul us. In 2007, one of the students in one of those trucks wrote me a beautiful, moving apology for calling me a ****** and more on that scary dark night. I published it back then (http://www.shauninthecity.com/2008/08/an-incredible-apology-that-changed-my-life.html).

In March of 1995, it all boiled over and a racist mob of nearly a dozen students beat me severely, first punching me from all sides, then, when I cradled into a fetal position on the ground they stomped me mercilessly, some with steel-toed boots, for about 20 seconds. That day changed the entire trajectory of my life. Thankfully, multiple credible, unbiased eyewitnesses to this traumatic day have come out publicly and spoken on my behalf in the past 48 hours (https://www.facebook.com/shea.gold.7/posts/10207491583438631?pnref=story). A few days after I was assaulted, I was at home recovering when a group of rednecks literally pulled up in my driveway at night, but were chased off by a neighbor with a big flashlight. That neighbor just posted his memory of it (https://www.facebook.com/brohale/posts/10206134990506943?pnref=story).

I had fractures in my face and ribs, but most badly damaged was my spine. I ended up having three spinal surgeries and missed 20 months of school over it (https://www.facebook.com/CunninLynguists/posts/10152996462952617). My entire family endured this deeply painful time in my life ranging from the surgeries, the brutal recovery, physical therapy, and professional counseling. It was rougher than my words will ever do justice. Many people have said that in the police report it listed me as white—as if I checked the box and that was some deep admission. Today, that officer admitted to the New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/20/us/activist-shaun-king-denies-claims-he-lied-about-race-and-assault.html?_r=0) that I never said I was white, but that he assumed so when he saw my mother. He and the school badly mishandled my case. We sued the school system for years because of their mishandling of it. They fought it tooth and nail and my mother and I eventually just gave up on it.

Rev. Willis Polk, a local pastor, and my best friend's father, visited and prayed with me often during those surgeries. I became a Christian during my recovery. I was baptized and preached my first sermons as a high school teenage minister in the black church. Rev. Polk, his son Willis, and I toured HBCU’s together in 1996 and we knew that Morehouse College in Atlanta was the only place for us. We loved it.

Again, this wasn’t me sneaking into Morehouse as an undercover white man. I was 17 and my racial identity was fully formed. I knew who I was. I wasn’t appropriating or faking, but living out my life. During this entire time, my mother and I had an unspoken understanding about my race. Her past, in a sense, was taboo for me, and I had honestly moved on from even wanting to know the details of who she slept with in January of 1979. I sincerely didn’t care and had compartmentalized it deep in my mind and moved on the best I could.

To be clear, I received a full academic and leadership scholarship to attend Morehouse College based on my grades and my leadership skills. I love Morehouse. It helped me heal from the brokenness of my past and my very best friendships and bonds were formed there. When I was forced to leave Morehouse to have yet another spinal surgery, I lost that scholarship and was then offered a scholarship from Oprah Winfrey when I returned to complete my studies. She wanted it to be for “diamonds in the rough” and that was pretty much who I was at that point. I didn’t apply for it. Nobody does. The college selects brothers who need it and I was, very gratefully, chosen for it.

Since finishing Morehouse nearly 15 years ago, I have consistently and publicly shared my complicated story as an interracial child, facing the pressures of racism in an environment that lacked little intelligence or compassion about it. A part of this story has always been that I never chose to be black/interracial. Not only was it chosen for me by birth, but white students and staff fundamentally rejected me. Furthermore, the black community, my peers, their parents, and local black leaders, seeing that I was, in essence, a kid without a community, embraced me in the deepest, most soul-soothing ways. My wife, who has been with me since we were both in high school, has walked with me through this every step of the way and shared her story here earlier today (https://www.facebook.com/RaiKing/posts/10155908400310548?pnref=story).

Outside of my mother’s home, as a kid I lived a deeply black experience. Black families invited me to attend vacation Bible school. I attended black family reunions where old people would come up and pinch my cheeks and tell me who I looked like in their family. I went to black skate parties, black block parties/festivals, and did so not as a white intruder, but as a Karl Kani wearing, widely welcomed, light-skinned black kid. I soaked up every moment I had as I was fully, unabashedly loved, even doted upon, by black families throughout central Kentucky. It was a refuge for me and also a rite of passage of sorts. In high school I joined exclusively black achievers groups. With scholars I love and respect to this day at the University of Kentucky, I attended and helped plan King Day events, and just lived my life.

Until this past week, never has anyone asked me who my father was during these 35 years of mine. It occurs to me now that I’ve never asked anyone that question either. It’s an odd question, and, in my case, has a complicated, deeply personal answer, but one that I have actually seen lived out many other times. I have walked other people very close to my wife and I through what it is like to find out that the person you believed was your father actually isn’t. This is a pretty common thing.

I now see pictures of all of our young children, distant relatives, and even people who I am not actually related to spread across the internet in an attempt to shame us somehow. This is disgusting. I want to be clear. I love my family. I have never, not once, hidden or been ashamed of my family. They are my biggest supporters and defenders and always have been. Most of the pictures people have shared to prove that I am white actually came from my own social media accounts that I have shared to hundreds of thousands of people. It’s all a farce.

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.

This was the goal... divide and conquer. But I will not allow it to define or distract me for one more day and hope that all of you reading this will move on with me. I have promised my wife, kids, extended family, and friends that this will be the last time I talk about this publicly for a long time. My work has never been about me and I've never made a big deal about my race. I've actually tried hard to avoid ever making a big deal out of it and have, instead, simply tried to do good work that matters. I'm eager to get back to the cause that concerns me most.

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.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/08/20/1413881/-Race-love-hate-and-me-A-distinctly-American-story

:lol

[CosmicCowboy]

ahhh...the "woodpile" theory.

well played.

[boutons_deux]

ahhh...the "woodpile" theory.

well played.

you right wingers got suckered by Breitbart and the rest of racist right-wing hate media. :lol

[CosmicCowboy]

God, you are such an idiot, Boo.

[spurraider21]

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.
:lmao that's convenient. a while guy trying to pretend he's black insisting that the the white father on his birth certificate isn't his real father. i will say though, the uncertainty over who his father is is a nice touch to the fake black thing

:lmao the evidence contradicts what i'm sayin... but u gotta believe me

[DarrinS]

http://images.dailykos.com/images/160167/small/Screen_Shot_2015-08-20_at_2.04.02_PM.png?1440093892




Ah, I see he's had that douchey thin dirt mustache from a young age.

[CosmicCowboy]

:lmao that's convenient. a while guy trying to pretend he's black insisting that the the white father on his birth certificate isn't his real father. i will say though, the uncertainty over who his father is is a nice touch to the fake black thing

:lmao the evidence contradicts what i'm sayin... but u gotta believe me

And throws his momma under the bus at the same time...:lmao

"my Momma was a ho but I loved her anyway...":lol

[TheSanityAnnex]

you right wingers got suckered by Breitbart and the rest of racist right-wing hate media. :lol

The only sucker here is you

http://static1.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.2330787.1440003901!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/article_635/article-shaun3-0819.jpg (http://static1.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.2330787.1440003901!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/article_635/article-shaun3-0819.jpg)

[Clipper Nation]

Race, love, hate, and me: A distinctly American story (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/08/20/1413881/-Race-love-hate-and-me-A-distinctly-American-story)

http://images.dailykos.com/images/160167/small/Screen_Shot_2015-08-20_at_2.04.02_PM.png?1440093892

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.
For my entire life, I have held the cards of my complicated family history very close to my chest. I preferred to keep it that way and deeply resent that I have been forced to authenticate so many intimate details of my life to prove who I really am. This, in and of itself, is a form of violence. The same sources who falsely reported my family history—including Breitbart, the Daily Caller, and The Blaze—have also falsely reported that my wife and I were never in a brutal car accident, (https://twitter.com/shaunking/status/599938818368774144) that I lied about how many kids we have (we have 5 now, but have had more/less because we've fostered, adopted, housed many of our nieces and nephews), that I lied about my race to get a scholarship from Oprah, that I lied about how many back surgeries I’ve had, and more. All of those things were completely and totally false, but have simply been ignored at my expense. I don’t know why this shocks me, but it does.

Let me share some of my peculiar American story about race, my unwavering love for my mother, and my gratitude for an entire community of people who’ve walked with me through this for my entire life.

When I was 8 years old and in the second grade, black children first began asking me if I was “mixed.” In our house, my white mother, the sweetest woman ever and one of the best friends I’ve ever had, didn’t talk much about race. Most white families don’t. It’s part of the privilege. I didn’t even know what “mixed” was. This isn’t a secret. I’ve told this story publicly in front of thousands of people.

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. It happened regularly for years on end. While I didn’t have an understanding of the national dialogue on interracial children, I knew even as a young child that what people were telling meant something very peculiar and unflattering about my mother. I was aware at how different I looked than my siblings, but didn’t understand DNA or genealogy. They were my family and I loved them.

I adored my mother so much then, that I just didn’t have the nerve to ever bring these things up to her. I was a child and loved our care-free relationship. She had been married and divorced several times and by the time I was in second grade she was raising my brother and me as a single mom. By the time I reached middle school, I fully identified myself not even as biracial, but just as black. Of course, that was an oversimplification of my story, but that was what made sense at that time. Adults who loved and knew me, on many occasions sat me down and told me that I was black. As you could imagine, this had a profound impact on me and soon became my truth.

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. Never have I once identified myself as white. Not on forms, not for convenience or privilege, and not for fun and games, have I ever identified myself as white. I was never a white guy pretending to be black. Not once, ever, did it occur to me that I was being phony or fraudulent or fake. Quite the opposite—I always believed I was living the truest form of my self.

My freshman year in high school, another student and I got into a huge fight at a football game. The fight ended up setting off a powder keg of racial tensions at our school. The school paper back then referred to me as black and him as white. We were suspended for three days and while we were out, racial tensions boiled over so much that hundreds of white students staged a walkout because they had just been banned from wearing Confederate flags.
When I returned to school from that suspension, the collective anger of the racist white students was focused on me daily. Dozens of my close friends experienced this racist hate alongside me and it broke us down in the worst ways. I was consistently called ******, spat on, had a jar of tobacco spit thrown in my face, forced into fights, and on two different occasions chased by pickup trucks attempting to maul us. In 2007, one of the students in one of those trucks wrote me a beautiful, moving apology for calling me a ****** and more on that scary dark night. I published it back then (http://www.shauninthecity.com/2008/08/an-incredible-apology-that-changed-my-life.html).

In March of 1995, it all boiled over and a racist mob of nearly a dozen students beat me severely, first punching me from all sides, then, when I cradled into a fetal position on the ground they stomped me mercilessly, some with steel-toed boots, for about 20 seconds. That day changed the entire trajectory of my life. Thankfully, multiple credible, unbiased eyewitnesses to this traumatic day have come out publicly and spoken on my behalf in the past 48 hours (https://www.facebook.com/shea.gold.7/posts/10207491583438631?pnref=story). A few days after I was assaulted, I was at home recovering when a group of rednecks literally pulled up in my driveway at night, but were chased off by a neighbor with a big flashlight. That neighbor just posted his memory of it (https://www.facebook.com/brohale/posts/10206134990506943?pnref=story).

I had fractures in my face and ribs, but most badly damaged was my spine. I ended up having three spinal surgeries and missed 20 months of school over it (https://www.facebook.com/CunninLynguists/posts/10152996462952617). My entire family endured this deeply painful time in my life ranging from the surgeries, the brutal recovery, physical therapy, and professional counseling. It was rougher than my words will ever do justice. Many people have said that in the police report it listed me as white—as if I checked the box and that was some deep admission. Today, that officer admitted to the New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/20/us/activist-shaun-king-denies-claims-he-lied-about-race-and-assault.html?_r=0) that I never said I was white, but that he assumed so when he saw my mother. He and the school badly mishandled my case. We sued the school system for years because of their mishandling of it. They fought it tooth and nail and my mother and I eventually just gave up on it.

Rev. Willis Polk, a local pastor, and my best friend's father, visited and prayed with me often during those surgeries. I became a Christian during my recovery. I was baptized and preached my first sermons as a high school teenage minister in the black church. Rev. Polk, his son Willis, and I toured HBCU’s together in 1996 and we knew that Morehouse College in Atlanta was the only place for us. We loved it.

Again, this wasn’t me sneaking into Morehouse as an undercover white man. I was 17 and my racial identity was fully formed. I knew who I was. I wasn’t appropriating or faking, but living out my life. During this entire time, my mother and I had an unspoken understanding about my race. Her past, in a sense, was taboo for me, and I had honestly moved on from even wanting to know the details of who she slept with in January of 1979. I sincerely didn’t care and had compartmentalized it deep in my mind and moved on the best I could.

To be clear, I received a full academic and leadership scholarship to attend Morehouse College based on my grades and my leadership skills. I love Morehouse. It helped me heal from the brokenness of my past and my very best friendships and bonds were formed there. When I was forced to leave Morehouse to have yet another spinal surgery, I lost that scholarship and was then offered a scholarship from Oprah Winfrey when I returned to complete my studies. She wanted it to be for “diamonds in the rough” and that was pretty much who I was at that point. I didn’t apply for it. Nobody does. The college selects brothers who need it and I was, very gratefully, chosen for it.

Since finishing Morehouse nearly 15 years ago, I have consistently and publicly shared my complicated story as an interracial child, facing the pressures of racism in an environment that lacked little intelligence or compassion about it. A part of this story has always been that I never chose to be black/interracial. Not only was it chosen for me by birth, but white students and staff fundamentally rejected me. Furthermore, the black community, my peers, their parents, and local black leaders, seeing that I was, in essence, a kid without a community, embraced me in the deepest, most soul-soothing ways. My wife, who has been with me since we were both in high school, has walked with me through this every step of the way and shared her story here earlier today (https://www.facebook.com/RaiKing/posts/10155908400310548?pnref=story).

Outside of my mother’s home, as a kid I lived a deeply black experience. Black families invited me to attend vacation Bible school. I attended black family reunions where old people would come up and pinch my cheeks and tell me who I looked like in their family. I went to black skate parties, black block parties/festivals, and did so not as a white intruder, but as a Karl Kani wearing, widely welcomed, light-skinned black kid. I soaked up every moment I had as I was fully, unabashedly loved, even doted upon, by black families throughout central Kentucky. It was a refuge for me and also a rite of passage of sorts. In high school I joined exclusively black achievers groups. With scholars I love and respect to this day at the University of Kentucky, I attended and helped plan King Day events, and just lived my life.

Until this past week, never has anyone asked me who my father was during these 35 years of mine. It occurs to me now that I’ve never asked anyone that question either. It’s an odd question, and, in my case, has a complicated, deeply personal answer, but one that I have actually seen lived out many other times. I have walked other people very close to my wife and I through what it is like to find out that the person you believed was your father actually isn’t. This is a pretty common thing.

I now see pictures of all of our young children, distant relatives, and even people who I am not actually related to spread across the internet in an attempt to shame us somehow. This is disgusting. I want to be clear. I love my family. I have never, not once, hidden or been ashamed of my family. They are my biggest supporters and defenders and always have been. Most of the pictures people have shared to prove that I am white actually came from my own social media accounts that I have shared to hundreds of thousands of people. It’s all a farce.

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.

This was the goal... divide and conquer. But I will not allow it to define or distract me for one more day and hope that all of you reading this will move on with me. I have promised my wife, kids, extended family, and friends that this will be the last time I talk about this publicly for a long time. My work has never been about me and I've never made a big deal about my race. I've actually tried hard to avoid ever making a big deal out of it and have, instead, simply tried to do good work that matters. I'm eager to get back to the cause that concerns me most.

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.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/08/20/1413881/-Race-love-hate-and-me-A-distinctly-American-story

:lol



tl;dr

Fraud King is a liar. His word means jackshit.

[FuzzyLumpkins]

His claim is provable by genetic testing. Instead of calling for verification, the dumbfuck brigade has already made up their minds.

[spurraider21]

His claim is provable by genetic testing. Instead of calling for verification, the dumbfuck brigade has already made up their minds.
if he's going to claim his birth certificate is false, the onus should be on him to provide such evidence

[Trill Clinton]

It's a shame white supremacists got him to explain his background. We got grown men giddy like girls over his race.pathetic.

[spurraider21]

We got grown men giddy like girls over his race.pathetic.
as opposed to grown men like yourself getting giddy over the race of ancient egyptians?

[Clipper Nation]

His claim is provable by genetic testing. Instead of calling for verification, the dumbfuck brigade has already made up their minds.
He refused to even answer the question "are you black or white?" when repeatedly asked to him, and you think he's going to do genetic testing? :lmao

[Trill Clinton]

Compare ancient Egyptians to sjw's, brehs

[spurraider21]

Compare ancient Egyptians to sjw's, brehs
either way its grown men getting giddy about the race of others

[vy65]

It's all a facade of bullshit.

Mayhaps a platform of bluster even?

Or would you make a distinguishment?

[boutons_deux]

The plot to destroy Shaun King: How Breitbart turned a ludicrous conspiracy theory into national news

The right's campaign to take down a Black Lives Matter leader is transparently bogus. So why did CNN take the bait?

Shaun King, a columnist for Daily Kos, an active and widely-followed Twitter user and a prominent member of the Black Lives Matter movement, was forced (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/08/20/1413881/-Race-love-hate-and-me-A-distinctly-American-story) yesterday to share some of his most painful family secrets with the world. This is thanks to a monumentally squalid series of articles (http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/08/19/did-black-lives-matter-organiser-shaun-king-mislead-oprah-winfrey-by-pretending-to-be-biracial/) by conservative site Breitbart that questioned whether or not King was actually a black man—an assertion that was thoroughly discredited by King.

Normally, I’d advise you to avoid reading any further, but the King saga is a perfect symbol of some of the worst tendencies currently found in both the dankest corners of the conservative media and the shamelessly trigger-happy world of the mainstream media.

Breitbart’s “scoop” about King came from Vicki Pate, a blogger who runs a truly startling website (http://www.re-newsit.com/) called “Re-NewsIt!” The site is the kind of typo-ridden bile factory that would normally be dismissed without a second glance. Its sole aim appears to be to “expose the truth” about the nefarious charlatans at the heart of the Black Lives Matter Movement, as well as to smear any black victims of crime.

Pate has had multiple Twitter accounts suspended. When she still had access to Twitter, she used the platform to do things (http://www.wctv.tv/home/headlines/Kendrick-Johnson-Autopsy-Photos-Anonymously-Leaked-To-The-Public-278873501.html?device=phone&c=y&device=tablet&c=y) like harass the mother of Kendrick Johnson, a black teenager whose dead body was found rolled up in a gym mat at his high school. For good measure, Pate also posted leaked autopsy photos of Johnson on her website and accused (http://www.re-newsit.com/2013/10/kendrick-johnson-racist-cover-up-or.html) his father of “trying to win the race-hoax lottery.”

Pate has also been obsessively trying to take Shaun King down for some time, and suddenly it seemed that she’d struck gold in the form of a birth certificate that listed both of King’s parents as white.

Most outlets would probably stay away from such a clearly fetid swamp, but Breitbart happily dove in, highlighting her efforts on its much larger platform and driving the King story to the top of the news agenda. That’s perhaps to be expected when Milo Yiannopoulos, the reporter who wrote the King story, is a man whose past gemsinclude (https://twitter.com/ashleylynch/status/634097337644773376) “16 Movements Less Ridiculous Than Black Lives Matter” and “Donald Trump Would Be the Real First Black President. (http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/07/30/donald-trump-would-be-the-real-first-black-president/)” Racial provocation, not rigor, is the goal here.

Let’s be very clear about why Breitbart decided this was a worthy story to pursue. It’s the same reason that Fox News was so reluctant (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/18/fox-news-charleston-shooting_n_7614126.html) to call Charleston shooter Dylann Roof a racist. Some people in America find the idea that there is such a thing as white supremacy–or that white people are in any way to blame for the racism in our society–so terrifying that they would rather concoct a huge racial conspiracy theory wherein ghoulish black activists run roughshod over a cowed white populace. To Breitbart, the Shaun Kings of the world are the ones with all the power, exploiting a weak and politically correct society for their own personal gain.



It is all self-evidently insane, of course, but white people have been deluding themselves about the racial state of play in America for centuries, so why stop now?

Some will jump to compare King’s story to that of Rachel Dolezal, and ask what the difference is. Here’s the difference: Dolezal only became a story because her own parents (http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2015/jun/11/board-member-had-longstanding-doubts-about-truthfu/) told reporters their daughter was faking her identity, because it became clear that Dolezal had completely altered her appearance over the years, because she’d sued Howard University for anti-white discrimination, and so on and so on and so on. It didn’t come from a patently wacko racist blogger hell-bent on trying to destroy a civil rights movement, and there’s been absolutely no evidence presented that Shaun King has ever changed the story he’s told about his racial background, unlike Dolezal. The only conceivable reason to target him is because he’s an easily identifiable figure in the Black Lives Matter movement, and Breitbart would like him to be rendered somehow illegitimate.

That explains why Breitbart was so eager to “expose” King. What defies all comprehension is why reputable news outlets ran with this sorry excuse of a story. CNN’s Don Lemon–who always seems to be at the center of the network’s most journalistically dubious decisions–breathlessly told (http://www.mediaite.com/tv/family-member-confirms-to-cnn-that-blacklivesmatter-activist-shaun-king-is-white/) his viewers that family members had sworn exclusively to him that King was white.

(Never mind King’s own statement that his family was a complex, tangled ball–making it entirely possible that some family members didn’t know what the hell they were talking about when it came to his racial background.) The Daily News ran multiple stories with headlines like“Rachel Dolezal 2.0? Shaun King, activist for the Black Lives Matter movement, outed as a white man.” (http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/black-lives-matter-activist-shaun-king-white-article-1.2330658)



It’s bad enough that sites like Breitbart are peddling this nonsense. But for CNN to use its still-considerable authority to drive such a clearly malicious smear campaign forward is something else entirely. CNN should have taken one look at both the Breitbart story and its source and known to stay away. That it chose not to do so is basic journalistic malpractice.


To the surprise of virtually nobody, Breitbart’s crack reporting fell apart almost instantly—but not before King was compelled to disclose (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/08/20/1413881/-Race-love-hate-and-me-A-distinctly-American-story) that his father is not the man listed on his birth certificate, but is in fact a black man who he has never met. Thus, faced with the near-total refutation of its wildest claims, Breitbart… declared victory (http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/08/20/shaun-king-confession-i-have-no-idea-who-my-father-is/).

Anybody looking for a scintilla of contrition for the way the site sliced open some of the deepest wounds in a man’s life for no reason would be disappointed.

Truth be told, it would be too much to hope that Breitbart or its ilk would learn any lesson from this shabby affair. My real hope is that the rest of the media thinks twice before it validates such appalling behavior again. I’m not holding my breath.

http://www.salon.com/2015/08/21/the_plot_to_destroy_shaun_king_how_breitbart_turne d_a_ludicrous_conspiracy_theory_into_national_news/

[boutons_deux]

Shaun King Racial Controversy (http://m.snopes.com/2015/08/19/shaun-king/)

http://m.snopes.com/2015/08/19/shaun-king/

The Shaun King bullshit is nothing but more proof that conservatives, right-wing hate media, red staters, bubbas, rednecks, rurals, Repugs are animated basically by white supremacy.

The SCOTUS5 is full of shit for gutting the VRA because "a lot has changed in 50 years". fucking bullshit.

[TheSanityAnnex]

Shaun King Racial Controversy (http://m.snopes.com/2015/08/19/shaun-king/)

http://m.snopes.com/2015/08/19/shaun-king/

The Shaun King bullshit is nothing but more proof that conservatives, right-wing hate media, red staters, bubbas, rednecks, rurals, Repugs are animated basically by white supremacy.

The SCOTUS5 is full of shit for gutting the VRA because "a lot has changed in 50 years". fucking bullshit.




You are such a stupid fuck. You didn't even read the snopes article you posted. Had you actually read it you would have seen it was simply a recap of what had happened. It in no way supported Shaun King's claims of being black.

Shaun King deserves all of this shitstorm. He threw his name out there for the world to see during the Mike Brown case. He concocted lie after lie and pushed these lies using his twitter account. He pushed the lie of hands up don't shoot all over social media. He fueled racial tensions in Ferguson. He fueled and supported riots in Ferguson. He is responsible for people having their businesses looted and burnt to the ground. All of this so he could make a name for himself on social media, and all of it based on a lie. Guess it worked as he planned as he landed himself a gig at boutons favorite shit rag the dailykos.

People like Shaun King need to be made an example out of. Pushing lies like he was on social media have very real consequences for people. Fuck him he deserves all of this.

[Clipper Nation]

:lmao at Salon of all outlets criticizing Breitbart for "crack reporting."

http://i.imgur.com/T1Yjc4K.jpg

[TeyshaBlue]

Salon has turned into a complete joke. Used to be decent now just another shit hole blog.

[boutons_deux]

shitbag Breitbart took the cue from shitbag Pate, and ran with the politics of personal destruction, with the Repug/conservatives' racist goal of discrediting, trashing the totality BLM.

iow, "Those fucking uppity n!gg@s gotta STFU and know their place"

[spurraider21]

^you're one of the few people here (along with m>s) who actually uses sentences like that

[boutons_deux]

^you're one of the few people here (along with m>s) who actually uses sentences lime that

That sentence is what the Repug dog-whistling has been about for decades.

[Clipper Nation]

That sentence is what the Repug dog-whistling has been about for decades.
I take it you'll be casting your vote for the original Birther, Hillary, who used super-PAC surrogates throughout the 2008 campaign to smear Obama for his skin color?

Or will you be voting for Bernie, the fraud civil rights activist who ran away to the whitest state in the union as soon as NYC became "too black" for his liking? :cry "But, but, he and 200,000 other people marched with MLK!" :cry

[TheSanityAnnex]

shitbag Breitbart took the cue from shitbag Pate, and ran with the politics of personal destruction
Tit for tat. King smeared Darren Wilson's named based on known lies to boost his fame/cause. He ruined so many lives pushing his false narrative in Ferguson, he deserves all of the hate for being a fraud. Piece of shit is now throwing his mom under the bus and calling her a hoe. He can't stop lying its what he does best.

[boutons_deux]

There was no false narrative in Ferguson, with the police in Ferguson and apparently all around St Louis victimizing, brutalizing blacks.

You racists naturally resist, trash, slander ALL pushback from blacks

[Clipper Nation]

There was no false narrative in Ferguson
:lmao

[AaronY]

"Talcum X" lmao

1085699323118026752

HoF level nickname imo

[AaronY]

RIP my funnybone tbh

[Patty Mills]

RIP my funnybone tbh

:lol

[Trill Clinton]

Shaun king will be speaking at St. Philips college here in San Antonio next week. I'm trying to sign up as we speak. This is y'all opportunity to confront him.

[DarrinS]

Shaun king will be speaking at St. Philips college here in San Antonio next week. I'm trying to sign up as we speak. This is y'all opportunity to confront him.

:lol

hard pass

[spurraider21]

Shaun king will be speaking at St. Philips college here in San Antonio next week. I'm trying to sign up as we speak. This is y'all opportunity to confront him.
best way to confront him is to have him appear before an empty venue

dude's trash and not worth your time tbh

[SpursforSix]

Shaun king will be speaking at St. Philips college here in San Antonio next week. I'm trying to sign up as we speak. This is y'all opportunity to confront him.

I don't live in the area. But please see if you can convince him to join SpursTalk.

[Trill Clinton]

I don't live in the area. But please see if you can convince him to join SpursTalk.

I'll see what I can do big brother. Any questions y'all want me to ask?

[SpursforSix]

I'll see what I can do big brother. Any questions y'all want me to ask?

1) Whataburger or In and Out
2) What's the deal with airline peanuts?
3) Favorite true crime doc on Netflix
4) What's dees?
5) Do you smell updog in here?
6) Can you get an autograph from The Weeknd?

[koriwhat]

I'll see what I can do big brother. Any questions y'all want me to ask?

ask him what's his favorite eminem album is and how'd he get such a good boosie fade on that white man's head of his!