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In reply to the discussion: Right wing racists and their dirty tricks trying to take Shawn King down... [View all]MrScorpio
(73,630 posts)7. Check this out...
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
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Right wing racists and their dirty tricks trying to take Shawn King down... [View all]
MrScorpio
Aug 2015
OP
Hispanics come in all colors--all that means is they were raised in a Spanish language culture
MADem
Aug 2015
#65
The people he leads are the ones who count. Do they recognize a right-wing racist attack--on them?!
Hortensis
Aug 2015
#77
The former head of the NAACP, Ben Jealous, doesn't look particularly dusky either-but who cares?
MADem
Aug 2015
#67
Family Member Confirms to CNN That #BlackLivesMatter Activist Shaun King Is White
oberliner
Aug 2015
#51
No, her story literally began in the media with her parents saying she wasn't Black and that they
Starry Messenger
Aug 2015
#26
It's not a big deal at all. And to be honest, any friend of Scorpio's is more than welcome here
Number23
Aug 2015
#66
There are two little boys living a few doors down from me who are biracial and look very much like that
gollygee
Aug 2015
#72
Rachel Dolezal is not black. She was never called "nigger" or tormented for being black because she
Number23
Aug 2015
#37
BLM is a real movement, real people, very serious people. This scares the chickenshits and
randys1
Aug 2015
#18