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he's building quite the grifter resume that's for sure
speaking of which i was unaware of this
| Quote : | | "Your monthly reminder that Shaun King is a white man whose claim to Blackness is that his white mother slept around and though he has no idea who his father is (because it’s apparently not the white man on his birth certificate), that must mean he’s Black because reasons." |
| Quote : | | "“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,” he said." |
[Edited on March 17, 2021 at 2:14 PM. Reason : https://www.cnn.com/2015/08/20/us/shaun-king-controversy]
[Edited on March 17, 2021 at 2:16 PM. Reason : jesus there was a lot even in 2015 when that CNN article was written] 3/17/2021 2:09:51 PM
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I follow him on FB, and I like the activism he does for victims of police brutality, wrongfully convicted blacks, fighting against voter suppression laws, black candidates in local elections, bringing forward stories of black victims of racism, systemic or otherwise, and heck, even marijuana decriminalization. He raises money for all those and many other causes, including paying for funerals of police brutality and hate crimes, and defense funds of wrongfully charged black people.
I have noticed some people in the comments posting negative comments and calling him a con without explaining themselves, and I have it on the back burner to look up soon why some people dislike him and think he is a con.
"The internet" is not one person; millions of people obviously love and support him.
I have not read the article from the OP yet (seriously, 'hiphopwired', after you hound me for my sources?), but will do so tomorrow. And even if his piece on Samaria Rice, which I have also not read, is "ridiculous", that doesn't take away from his actual work on the ground, both seen and unseen, that he does to help those who need it.
In the meantime, if anybody wants to briefly say or post a link as to why he is a "grifter", please do so. Who has he grifted?
He has done amazing work raising money for all the right causes. Here are some examples from the past few weeks, and I like the last one best... I mean, his team actually got Ahmaud Arberry's murderers arrested, which took a lot of money and effort that it should not have. I fail to see how he is a bad person.
https://www.facebook.com/shaunking/posts/282156073273640
https://www.facebook.com/shaunking/posts/281520193337228
https://www.facebook.com/shaunking/posts/281517300004184
https://www.facebook.com/shaunking/posts/279076320248282
https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=3989741874398034&id=799539910084929
https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=3970768599628695&id=799539910084929
https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=3961338243905064&id=799539910084929
And this one is really amazing:
https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=3960254160680139&id=799539910084929
Excerpt:
| Quote : | "The next day I told Ahmaud’s story to the world across social media. ?
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In 48 hours my staff @GrassrootsLaw built a website for us to use to get justice for Ahmaud’s family. ?
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In 72 hours we set up a hotline. ?
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By that time, Ahmaud’s name and story was the #1 news story in America. ?
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We made that happen. ?
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It didn’t just happen. We made it happen. ?
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We built it. We spent half a million dollars to staff and promote this. ?
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And for the next 2 months we worked around the clock, literally hardly ever sleeping, until we made sure these 3 men were arrested. ?
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I can’t even say out loud all we had to do to make sure it happened. We had to have back room meetings with Republicans from the White House to the Governor of Georgia, to the Attorney General of Georgia, and more.
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Every single person we needed to do right by Ahmaud was a Republican. So it required us to approach the whole case differently. ?
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One day I’ll write the whole story. ?" |
P.S. As for his racial makeup, he is clearly not 100% Caucasian, that much anybody can see. Of course, if he is knowingly lying about his race, he should be taken to task, but he says he has been told all his life that his biological father is a "light-skinned black man". I have no reason not to believe that he has been told that.3/17/2021 6:49:14 PM |
