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Shaun King And Why Were So Quick To Believe White Folks
As I write this, activist Shaun Kings name is trending on Twitter nationwide. If you are unfamiliar, with all the incidents of police brutality plaguing our nation, King has been a voice within the Black Lives Matter movement. And he doesnt just have swift Twitter fingers, hes about that work in real life as well.
King was also set to launch a new organization called the Justice Coalition, which seeks to end police brutality in this country by forming policy teams and launching an additional website to tell the true stories of how police brutality effects its victims.
But hes not trending because of these new initiatives. Hes trending because people want to know if hes really Black like he claims to be. They want to know if hes the next Rachel Dolezal. And we all know how she dominated the news cycle for a good two weeks.
Breitbart, a right-winged, conservative news aggregation site named after its founder, Andrew Breitbart, alleged that King, who has said he has a White mother and a Black father, not only lied about being bi-racial. They claim he lied about his ethnicity to get a scholarship to Morehouse from Oprah Winfrey. They also claim he lied about being in a car accident and being attacked by racists during his high school years in rural Kentucky.
Breitbart claims to have obtained a copy of his birth certificate that seems to list a White man as his father.
The story blew up from there. You know folks love to have the tea. And in their quest to join the hashtag or unearth a scandal, many never even took the time to consider the source.
As a journalism major we were taught to question everything. When I was interning for a copywriter at MSNBC, she told me, If your mother tells you she loves you, get a second opinion. Thats the mindset we were trained to adopt when attempting to process new information.
Today, when I heard that it was Breitbart that was trying to call Shaun King a liar, I immediately doubted the notion. Not so much because I question everything I hear and read. Admittedly, Ive become more and more lax on that front, but because I know the recent history of the publication.
For those who were paying attention to the news during the summer of 2010, you may remember Breitbart was the same publication that infamously cost Shirley Sherrod her job with Department of Agriculture.
Breitbart obtained excerpts from a speech Sherrod gave at the at an NAACP event. The site chopped and screwed the video and painted Sherrod as a racist. When in actuality, her speech warned people not to let their personal prejudices stand in the way of helping someone and developing quality friendships.
But everyone trusted Breitbart. Instead of watching the whole video for themselves, the story spread like wildfire. FoxNews led the way and then a New York CBS affiliate picked it up and then the Atlanta Journal Constitution. By that afternoon, Sherrod received numerous emails from government officials asking her to submit her resignation. The NAACP stepped forward saying they condemned her remarks. And her superiors told her The White House requested that she resign immediately.
And it was all a lie, for nothing. A conservative, White publication said something was true, put up a few video clips and a Black woman, who wasnt even given the opportunity to tell her side of the story, lost her job because of it.
In all honesty, the Shaun King receipts seem plausible, just like the Sherrod receipts did five years ago. A White man on your birth certificate is pretty convincing.
But Breitbart is something like a MediaTakeout for conservative White folks. The story looks good on the surface, but when you do your own investigation, its bullshit. And for whatever reason, their rumors dont just stir up drama and kick up mess, they cause emotional and psychological damage. Sherrod lost her job and was publicly shamed by her people and the government. At the end of the day everybody looked like fools, had to issue apologies, including The White House, and Breitbart, the site and the man, likely revealed in the exposure and visits to their website.
Judging by the way the story about Shaun King took off, their credibility didnt even suffer.
And that is the very problem King is fighting against. We talk about Black Lives mattering and having value. But when its our word against a White mans we discover were still less credible, inferior. Its devastating when people, particularly Black people, are so ready and willing to believe something just because a White man said it.
I know Ive referenced this before, but the same thing happened when Barack Obama was running for President. Black folks wanted to vote for him but didnt think he stood a chance of winning. But when he took Iowa, when they saw that White folks were cosigning him, then all of a sudden we felt comfortable to support our own.
Yall we dont need the White mans cosign anymore.
And we need to question the coverage of Black people on all media platforms, particularly when the only time Black people are mentioned is when someone is attempting to discredit us.
By now you might be wondering did Shaun address his racial makeup. He did, via his Twitter page.
Erich Bloodaxe BSN
(14,733 posts)I would have thought he was white too. He looks 'white'.
But why should it matter? Haven't we heard that Black Lives Matter doesn't discriminate, that white members are welcome too?
And how old is this story? Isn't Breitbart dead?
MrScorpio
(73,630 posts)He's bi-racial, like he says he his. I have no doubt about it.
Another DUer once advised that one should never believe right wingers about ANYTHING!
https://twitter.com/ShaunKing
Erich Bloodaxe BSN
(14,733 posts)Yeah, although I admit I still would have thought Hispanic, rather than black. Guess I'm not so hot at spotting biracial folks.
MrScorpio
(73,630 posts)A student at my high school has recently shared his eye witness account and first hand perspective as a white student that grew up in my hometown of Versailles. PLEASE HELP SHARE HIS STORY!
To anybody from my city of Versailles that comes across this story, we should be MORE than vocal about it. During my time in high school, Versailles dropped the ball on how it handled EVERY instance of racial tension.
And to question his race? Since the third grade, Shaun has had to deal with whispers as to his racial make-up. Whispers that no adult helped him deal with or process. Yes, that includes his mother.
Shaun got called Nigger just as much, if not more, than myself or any of my black friends and family while growing up in Versailles. Do you think an 8 year old would volunteer for that type of treatment? A funny colored, wavy haired child just trying to navigate life? To have anything from racial slurs to cups full of dip-spit (chewing tobacco) hurled at you from confederate flag covered pick-up trucks? And then 20 years later have some right wing assholes question whether it ever happened and go as far as to call you a fraud and try to de-bunk years of social justice work that youve put under your belt?
We grew up in a town where white mothers were constantly dis-owned by their families for having relationships and making children with black fathers. Where even into the 2000s, the racial identities of mix-raced children were a taboo topic. Shaun was a direct victim of that. 20 years later, much progress has been made in my town of Versailles, but we are proving we have much further to go if people from my home town dont speak the fuck up.
With all the blatant instances of racism still happening in 2015, imagine what it was like 20 years ago in a rural Kentucky town with a population of less than 8,000. Imagine how a high school and police department would handle a potential hate crime.
If this happened in the age of the internet, the story would have spread like wildfire, but 20 years ago, the systematic conditions were in place to sweep Shaun and his situation under the rug.
During those 20 months that Shaun spent time recovering, I was a constant presence at his bedside. Directly following the altercation and many more times over the years, Shaun had numerous spinal surgeries and is still in pain EVERY DAY OF HIS LIFE.
Hes told his story countless times, but rarely comments on the amount of pain that he is in on a DAILY.
The extent that news media will go to in order to discredit a soldier thats dedicated his life to fighting injustice sickens me.
If anything, his entire life of dealing with this mess is the REASON he fights for injustice. Why are these idiots too blind to see that?
Piss off
Willis Polk II pka Deacon (of CunninLynguists)
http://hip-hop-fanatic.tumblr.com/post/127110047338/black-lives-matter-activist-shaun-king-might-be
MADem
(135,425 posts)Some include Portuguese in there as well.
Carmen Diaz, David Ortiz, Alberto Fujimori, the Pope--all Hispanic.
randys1
(16,286 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Stellar
(5,644 posts)Rollingstone Magazine
But why should it matter? Haven't we heard that Black Lives Matter doesn't discriminate, that white members are welcome too?
BLM does not discriminate and neither did anyone involved in civil rights and/or NAACP.
The NAACP was formed partly in response to the continuing horrific practice of lynching and the 1908 race riot in Springfield, the capital of Illinois and resting place of President Abraham Lincoln. Appalled at the violence that was committed against blacks, a group of white liberals that included Mary White Ovington and Oswald Garrison Villard, both the descendants of abolitionists, William English Walling and Dr. Henry Moscowitz issued a call for a meeting to discuss racial justice.
http://www.naacp.org/pages/naacp-history
MADem
(135,425 posts)Why aren't the Brietbart Brigade assholes going after him? Jerks.
Stellar
(5,644 posts)and I think they said he was like 87% European mixed with something else, but I don't remember this part that you shared. I must have fallen asleep. But, who knows, they probably will still go after him. That's their m.o.
brush
(53,726 posts)Get your eyes check. That photo is obviously of lighter skinned black guy or a bi-racial man like the president who we all know identifies as a black man.
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)Cuz everybody know ... the white man's ice is colder!
(If you don't know what that means, ask somebody.)
lib87
(535 posts)I've been questioning others on why they're so quick to believe breitbart.com especially with their history. Especially at this time in history. And especially with the issues certain people have with BLM and vocal Black activists getting their voices heard.
Erich Bloodaxe BSN
(14,733 posts)It seems to be indicative of internalized racist social beliefs by those oppressed by that very society. Pretty insidious.
tblue
(16,350 posts)I can't stand it. If you have a Twitter account, Shaun could use some support.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)When far RW white folks get to determine who is or isn't black, you know we've gone way past surreal...
ismnotwasm
(41,956 posts)Apparently now some white folks are trying to change the narrative--since its convienent to promote a racism and white supremacy agenda.
Ugly shit.
enough
(13,254 posts)I've learned a lot from Shaun King's ongoing constant work at Daily Kos. I never wondered what "race" he is.
I hope this won't derail him. I don't think it will.
Starry Messenger
(32,342 posts)I'll go check out Twitter. I already follow him.
Sissyk
(12,665 posts)I'm printing this off for my two sons.
I especially love this part:
And that is the very problem King is fighting against. We talk about Black Lives mattering and having value. But when its our word against a White mans we discover were still less credible, inferior. Its devastating when people, particularly Black people, are so ready and willing to believe something just because a White man said it.
I know Ive referenced this before, but the same thing happened when Barack Obama was running for President. Black folks wanted to vote for him but didnt think he stood a chance of winning. But when he took Iowa, when they saw that White folks were cosigning him, then all of a sudden we felt comfortable to support our own.
Yall we dont need the White mans cosign anymore.
And we need to question the coverage of Black people on all media platforms, particularly when the only time Black people are mentioned is when someone is attempting to discredit us.
By now you might be wondering did Shaun address his racial makeup. He did, via his Twitter page.
I am very proud of the way he is handling this on facebook.
TeeYiYi
(8,028 posts)...who eviscerated Rachel Dolezal BUT are now apoplectic about Shaun King, may want to revisit their basic understanding of sexism 101.
The backstories are almost identical, yet the disparity in their handling, particularly here at DU, is a real eyeopener. One was made a pariah. The other is being molded into a martyr...
TYY *smh*
MrScorpio
(73,630 posts)Aside from right wing smears, where's the proof that King misrepresented his racial background?
TeeYiYi
(8,028 posts)...by giving one the benefit of the doubt from the jump, but not the other.
To answer your question: Both were tireless advocates and allies of the African American community. Both claimed to be biracial. Both received full scholarships to African American Universities based on their biracial ethnicity. Both claimed to have been racially discriminated against. Both had family members come forward to deny their claims of being African American...
TYY
MrScorpio
(73,630 posts)His wife?
*Shaun Kings wife has come to his defense in a lengthy Facebook post in the wake of allegations he led people to believe he is black. Conservative blogs have uncovered documents proving that both of his parents are white, and CNN says it has since gotten confirmation from one of Kings family member.
Shaun is a flawed and imperfect man. He has made many mistakes. Just like me and just like you. But regarding his race, he has never lied. Not once, writes Rai King in her Facebook post. His story is beautifully difficult, and painful. And Ive actually encouraged him to tell it publicly because it is a unique expression of this countrys sordid and ridiculous history with race. But its his story to tell. On his own terms. When hes ready to tell it.
Rai goes on to say that her husband is no Rachel Dolezal.
Whats white about him is white, and whats Black about him is Black and always has been from the time he was a child, Rai writes. Theres no spray tan, no fake Black hairstyles, no attempt to make himself appear any more ethnic than he already does.
Rai ends the post by saying this ordeal has her energized.
If I lacked courage before, this situation has found it renewed in me, she writes. Any student of history understands that this type of scrutiny and demonizing of public figures is an old and tried tactic designed to take the focus off of the work at hand. Well, you may choose to be distracted from this work, but we wont. Today I am going to teach the Black and Brown 1st graders I love so much. It is in the classroom, through the shaping and molding of young minds, that I stage my protest. Today, Shaun will continue to raise the collective consciousness of us all by writing articles highlighting police brutality. Many expect this media foolishness to take center stage in our lives. It never will.
Read her entire post below:
Read more at http://www.eurweb.com/2015/08/shawn-kings-wife-defends-him-on-fb-hes-no-rachel-dolezal/#aFzisDlYe4a8kMaY.99
What I find interesting here is that King clearly looks biracial Remember, I come from a family of black people of all shades and colors. If anything, he looks as if he could be my own son
steve2470
(37,457 posts)TeeYiYi
(8,028 posts)...how DU's treatment of Rachel Dolezal was not a classic case of sexism, in light of the Shaun King controversy.
TYY
Edit to add: MrScorpio, I don't remember you defending Rachel Dolezal by posting pictures of her black husband and black children...
Starry Messenger
(32,342 posts)That's not complicated.
TeeYiYi
(8,028 posts)...until much later in the narrative. What are you going to do if Shaun King turns out to be white? Will he receive the same treatment that Rachel Dolezal received?
The sexist hypocrisy in this case is staggering.
TYY
steve2470
(37,457 posts)Look, I've been around black people all my life, and I can TELL from all the photos I've seen that he is NOT white. MrScorpio, a bona fide black guy, is vouching for him.
You're wrong, face it. You have a lot of chutzpah making this argument in AA, I'm telling you.
TeeYiYi
(8,028 posts)... is that DU was blatantly sexist in their disparity of reaction to similar cases that differ almost solely by gender.
You think it takes chutzpah to bring up sexism in the AA forum? Interesting.
TYY
gollygee
(22,336 posts)One of them is actually biracial. If you look at pictures of him as a child, he looks biracial. His family says he's biracial. The only people who say he isn't are Glenn Beck and his fans.
The other one is not biracial. Her own parents are the ones who started that conversation. If you look at photos of her as a child, she looks clearly white.
They only have to differ in that way for them to be entirely different.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)During a segment on #BlackLivesMatters activist Shaun King and the allegation he isnt black at all, CNN host Don Lemon revealed that he had spoken to a family member of Kings who confirmed he was white.
A family member tells CNN that both of Kings parents are white,Lemon said on Wednesday nights edition of CNN Tonight.
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/family-member-confirms-to-cnn-that-blacklivesmatter-activist-shaun-king-is-white/
There are childhood photos of him as well.
gollygee
(22,336 posts)is that the person named as his father, and on his birth certificate, is not his biological father. And he looks multiracial in his childhood photos to me.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)I just wonder who this "family member" was that "confirmed" that he was white? What would motivate that person to contact CNN with that apparently false information? Or was the family member not really a family member? Or did they just not know the truth?
gollygee
(22,336 posts)Someone with a grudge, someone who doesn't like him, not really a family member and akin to "some people say. . ." Who knows?
brush
(53,726 posts)Don Lemon's black bona fides are suspect IMO.
Seems he took the word of someone who claimed to be relatives of King and ran with it and put it on the air. As a journalist you're supposed to question and verify, which is why he should have talked to other sources.
Lemon is full of it. He's black. He grew up in the African American community where people of Shaun King's complexion are common and part of the community and part of many of our families. It's so common that I'm sure he has relatives that look like King.
Why didn't he interview Shaun King, who is obviously bi-racial, which in this country means you're black, like President Obama.
JustAnotherGen
(31,780 posts)If anything I find it appalling that a lot of folks only "show up" for a black woman when she is actually white.
And she did not share my experience as a bi-racial person.
She didn't. She doesn't.
She never once had a kid ask her if she was adopted when she was with her mom.
Or her dad for that matter.
Her parents never had to tell her "don't be rude! It's perfectly acceptable for someone's parents to match."
brush
(53,726 posts)You're kind of misrepresenting that whole fiasco.
It was about race whether she was actually African American.
The cases are seemingly similar at first glance but they are so different different by 180 degrees.
Dolezal is white. I posted here at the time that even if she was white she was doing positive things in the African American community (unpaid position) and that we should back off of her. After all, being black is a good thing. Of course that never happened, she was hung out to dry.
Shaun King's case is the exact opposite. He IS African American (biracial if you will, as is our president who also identifies as black. If you know anything about the history of this country, if you have black blood in you you are considered African American. In both these men's cases they embraced that designation. As I wrote earlier, being black is a good thing, especially in this country as the legacy of warmongering and racism doesn't hang over the black community).
Like I said, the cases are similar until you scratch the surface and find they are not.
And how you introduce sexism as being at the core of it I don't get at all.
Starry Messenger
(32,342 posts)were white. That wasn't later in the narrative--that was the news story. Period.
Shaun has spent the last 24 hours posting the most heartrending stories, including pictures of himself nearly beaten to death for being Black in his high school. A witness from high school who hasn't talked to him for years stepped forward to recount exactly what happened. https://www.facebook.com/shea.gold.7/posts/10207491583438631
No one but the right wing press is saying Shaun is white and it is to slander him because he's starting a new organization against police violence.
His pictures show a biracial Black man. There's nothing sexist, it is evidence. Rachel had nothing. Please do some reading.
Number23
(24,544 posts)He has been through hell and back.
And I don't know what's worse, that Glenn Beck and his crew of fuckwits is attacking him or that some "progressives" actually believe that his case is similar to Rachel Dolefraud.
Starry Messenger
(32,342 posts)That people defend her still leaves me gaping in shock.
Shaun said he still suffers from horrible back and neck pain from his injuries. The racist attack took him out of school for a whole year. The school covered it up and the town did too.
lib87
(535 posts)No one ever produced them (she didn't, her community didn't) but people still tout that garbage around with no evidence.
Why I would seriously listen to breitbart on anything related to Black people is laughable.
Starry Messenger
(32,342 posts)I think it is worth noting that in her quest to "be Black" she went right for a community position that would gain her attention and respect.
Also, the right-wing media rushed to protect her, and covered for that transracial bs. And now they are using her to attack Shaun King. (I'm noticing she's not out there saying anything about all this or any other issue affecting Black Lives Matter.)
JustAnotherGen
(31,780 posts)Whose asses are showing - far worse.
So-called allies.
MrScorpio
(73,630 posts)To this:
If you remember correctly, her entire defense was hinged on get assertion that she self-identifed as black person born in a white body and she changed her appearance to accommodate her claim, as well as claim that her parents were non-white. They came out and said that that was a lie. Do you recall that this was described as being "transracial?" It's not even the real meaning of the word.
http://newsone.com/3123996/rachel-dolezals-today-show-interview-not-transracial/
None of this had anything to do with her gender It had to do with her white parents, who went on camera to correct Dolezal's narrative.
Again, besides some unnamed "family member" who called Don fucking Lemon, of all people, to claim that he's "white" and the RWNJ anti-black smears all over the internet, where's the beef about King?
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/20/us/activist-shaun-king-denies-claims-he-lied-about-race-and-assault.html
TeeYiYi
(8,028 posts)...Rachel Dolezal so bad? Everything she lived her life for and claimed to be about was in support and defense of the African American community. She worked tirelessly for equality and against racism in America, as a leader for the NAACP.
What are you going to do if Shaun King turns out to be white? Will that negate all of the work he has done for BLM and in defense of African Americans and against racism and police brutality?...
On paper, these two stories dovetail completely, right down to the caucasian birth certificates and childhood 'white looking' photographs. The media circus in both cases has been ridiculous and unprecedented. Are you telling me you really don't see the blatant disparity in how they've been handled here at DU?
TYY
Starry Messenger
(32,342 posts)These are all strawmen in the face of material you have been given by members of the AA forum who know best about their own experience, like Mr. Scorpio. (Who, as an aside, I will also say as a Feminist Group host, I have seen to be a person who attacks male supremacy too, so I think those insinuations as to sexism are false.)
Why do you hate...
...Rachel Dolezal so bad? Everything she lived her life for and claimed to be about was in support and defense of the African American community. She worked tirelessly for equality and against racism in America, as a leader for the NAACP.
What are you going to do if Shaun King turns out to be white? Will that negate all of the work he has done for BLM and in defense of African Americans and against racism and police brutality?...
I'm going to ask you to back out of the group, which is a protected space. You've been given plenty of material to read, so I will ask you to go and do some reading instead of attacking people in here. First and last warning. Thank you.
MrScorpio
(73,630 posts)I simply don't believe her when she claims to be "transracial" to account for her adopting a black heritage in order to compensate for her altogether white one. What was the point of her changing the texture of her hair and darkening her skin?
Don't forget that I've lived long enough in this country to both witness and personally experience how racial identity works. I understand very much, as someone who hails from a visually diverse family background, that not all black people in this country's history have stayed black. However, if some white individual actually has no black background at all, there's absolutely no "transracial" process to turn that person into a black person.
Check this out, this is a page from my family reunion program from last year
How many of my blood relatives here are white people? The answer is none of them.
We're living in modern times, so there's no impetus to hide it. However, if any of them had decided to live lives as "white" people, who's to say otherwise?
What you should know it that some "white" people in this country, especially if they were born in the civil right era and before, had actually had black heritage and were actually considered black under the "One Drop" rule. They hid this fact and went on to live lives as "white" people, this is called "passing." SO to me, the birth certificate is clearly suspect or at lest not sufficiently explained. Dolezal's parents, for the record, are not such people. They claim that they've alway's been white and openly so.
I refuse to accede to the logic and "evidence" of white RWNJs, who all have very little if any understanding of this country's long history of racial politics, especially as it pertains to the south, while they are hell-bent on discrediting an effective activist for black people.
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)Noid
(13 posts)That's not despicable?
Chitown Kev
(2,197 posts)I had to migrate over here from the GOS just to lol at this comment.
Number23
(24,544 posts)Thanks.
Chitown Kev
(2,197 posts)"cuz" is short for cousin...I grew up with the person who started this thread. He's family (my second cousin, to be precise).
His are some of the few diaries that I read over here at DU...I've lurked here for months.
and I know him well enough to know that if he would rather I go back to lurking, then he will tell me, as this is a public board, I can plant my ass here and make comments as I damn well please.
MrScorpio
(73,630 posts)Hey, have to talk. DM me your phone number.
Number23
(24,544 posts)Not even close. But I appreciate Scorpio explaining the situation. Otherwise I would have been happy to help you migrate someplace else.
Welcome to DU.
Chitown Kev
(2,197 posts)Yes this is not only Mr. Scorpio's space but also a space for all DU's and, specifically, a DU space for black folks.
In that light, since I do have SOME home training, I should have given a proper introduction of myself and I did not do that.
And since I am a bit on the defensive side due to certain flame wars which this post touches on, my rage-o-meter is already dialed up to 8 or 9...well, I went there. and it was wrong of me to do so.
Number23
(24,544 posts)We're on the defensive here as well. This forum has been under siege for a while now due to the occasional racist troll infestation not to mention the over zealousness of a certain candidate's supporters. I'm sure you know of whom I speak. The entire Internet, hell the entire WORLD has been calling out their shit for the last month or so.
So please, come visit and visit often. This place is in desperate need of more minority voices and I have a feeling yours would be a great one to have here.
...not to mention the over zealousness of a certain candidate's supporters
I have no idea what you're talking about, lol
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/06/15/1393346/-Why-do-Nice-White-Progressives-have-to-be-so-White
NOLALady
(4,003 posts)But, I'm from New Orleans.
My Black Husband looks more European than King. Geeez!
TexasMommaWithAHat
(3,212 posts)I would never have guessed he identifies as black.
I agree that he looks bi-racial in these photos. I wouldn't have to take a second glance to agree since I grew up in the south and went to school with many biracial students who, of course, identified as black, but have that same coloring.
Not a reliable source for news, but the pictures of him as a child are probably real.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3205042/He-s-no-Rachel-Dolezal-Shaun-King-s-wife-defends-husband-claims-lied-race-family-member-CONFIRMS-parents-white.html
gollygee
(22,336 posts)Not all multiracial people look just the same, and they don't all have the same hair texture. Those photos certainly don't prove that he isn't biracial. To me they look like photos of a biracial child, though that might be because they look like my neighbors' kids.
JustAnotherGen
(31,780 posts)Because I am a black person with a white parent.
Please migrate back to GD. Telling you that as a group host.
We are all familiar with your posts.
And your approach.
I have three pm's that there is an intruder. So please go. It's going to be a beautiful day in Central NJ and I'm not babysitting today.
TexasMommaWithAHat
(3,212 posts)Do enjoy your beautiful day.
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)almost except for ALL the facts.
Number23
(24,544 posts)is NOT black. She never has been black. She never WILL be black.
It absolutely astonishes me that there are people so tone deaf and clueless that they would compare these two situations.
randys1
(16,286 posts)the racists and the assholes.
So expect anything and everything.
Next that punk who lied about ACORN will try and do some asinine video undercover.
brush
(53,726 posts)leftofcool
(19,460 posts)steve2470
(37,457 posts)HassleCat
(6,409 posts)Your advice about getting another opinion does not apply to Breitbart. Just disregard everything.
randys1
(16,286 posts)AndreaCG
(2,331 posts)To me he looks biracial but some photos are more so than others. In any case, the haters are just using that as an excuse to make trouble as they always do. No one should believe breitbart
WIProgressive88
(314 posts)and while it's beautifully written, it makes me feel like vomiting. How incredibly sickening that Mr. King has been forced to so publicly relive the pains of his past and share such personal information all because of some idiot Internet lynch-mob. And shame on the mainstream media outlets that were so eager to tear someone down that they ran with a story from fucking Breitbart.
Chitown Kev
(2,197 posts)as if Breitbart doesn't have a track record of horrible shit like this; not the first time the MSM has done this.
And all along, from the time that King introduced himself to DKos, I always thought that he looked like Mr. Scorpio.
Starry Messenger
(32,342 posts)Shaun's new diary. http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/08/20/1413881/-Race-love-hate-and-me-A-distinctly-American-story
I'm so sorry he even had to write this. I can't excerpt it, because to cut it up would be a crime. I hope people will go read it on KOS.
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(32,342 posts)I'm so sorry he had to open up his life like this because of the hateful attacks. He doesn't know me from a hole in the ground, but I just want to hug him.
WIProgressive88
(314 posts)It takes true bravery to open up and show that kind of vulnerability, especially after being exposed to so much cruelty.
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(41,956 posts)Gothmog
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(144,884 posts)OneGrassRoot
(22,920 posts)I forget the names and details, but there was a concerted effort by MRA types to take down several women in Gamergate. But I read that the onslaught on twitter and other social media outlets, attacking the women, was done by relatively few people.
I don't know if sockpuppet is the correct term, but basically one person creating a multitude of profiles -- with many people doing this same thing -- making it seem like the criticism was VAST and widespread, when in reality it was a handful of people.
I wonder if the same thing is happening here. It's effective though, and it really, really, really sucks.