Shaun King
Is it the second coming of Rachel Dolezal.
Shaun King, a prominent leader in the Black Lives Matter movement, may have just been outed as a white man.
Boasting a vast following on Twitter, a title as justice columnist for a social progressive website, and acquiring a full-ride college scholarship from Oprah Winfrey to Morehouse (an award designated for black men) are the markings which have made King, 35, a go-to source for breaking news on police brutality against African-Americans around the country.
King has always claimed to be the son of a white woman and a black man, in various accounts online, including a philanthropic feature story published by Rebel magazine in 2012.
“The son of a Caucasian mother and an African-American father, King was born on Sept. 17, 1979, in Versailles, KY., a town of 8,500 people,” a portion of the profile reads. King told the magazine that his father wasn’t around, and he was raised poor by his mother, who worked in a light bulb factory.
The activist detailed his own brush with “decades old racial tensions,” becoming the “focus of constant abuse of the resident rednecks” from his school on his blog, 100 Life Goals.
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