http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nat...r-activist-shaun-king-white-article-1.2330658
Shaun King, a prominent leader in the Black Lives Matter movement, may have just been outed as a white man.
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.
"I had a dozen fights my freshman year, had a jar of tobacco spit thrown on me in the middle of the school day, and came a few feet away from being run over by a pickup truck full of guys who chased me down and nearly mauled me as I walked home from a school dance," King wrote. "I reported it to the school, having saw each guy in the car, but they did nothing about it."
King said he missed over a semester of school after one attack, which required a long recovery process and three spinal surgeries.
Breitbart unearthed a police report from the incident, which has his race listed as "white" and the injuries as "minor," with no broken bones, lacerations, or loss of teeth.
The website obtained a copy of King's birth certificate, which listed his father as a Jeffery Wayne King. An arrest record, with a mug shot of a Caucasian man, who the site says is the only J Wayne King in the state, seems to link the pair.
The activist, by his own personal account, was one of 500 recipients of Winfrey's scholarship for students who attended the historically black college in Atlanta, Ga., the same school attended by Martin Luther King, Spike Lee, and Samuel L. Jackson.
Shaun King, a prominent leader in the Black Lives Matter movement, may have just been outed as a white man.
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.
"I had a dozen fights my freshman year, had a jar of tobacco spit thrown on me in the middle of the school day, and came a few feet away from being run over by a pickup truck full of guys who chased me down and nearly mauled me as I walked home from a school dance," King wrote. "I reported it to the school, having saw each guy in the car, but they did nothing about it."
King said he missed over a semester of school after one attack, which required a long recovery process and three spinal surgeries.
Breitbart unearthed a police report from the incident, which has his race listed as "white" and the injuries as "minor," with no broken bones, lacerations, or loss of teeth.
The website obtained a copy of King's birth certificate, which listed his father as a Jeffery Wayne King. An arrest record, with a mug shot of a Caucasian man, who the site says is the only J Wayne King in the state, seems to link the pair.
The activist, by his own personal account, was one of 500 recipients of Winfrey's scholarship for students who attended the historically black college in Atlanta, Ga., the same school attended by Martin Luther King, Spike Lee, and Samuel L. Jackson.
