Another "Black Activist" Outed As White

Prometheus said:
Has Morehouse College confirmed that the scholarship King received was actually intended solely for black recipients?
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Morehouse has said they do not award scholarships based on race. The original claim from Breitbart was that King received a black men only scholarship from Oprah to attend Morehouse.
 
Skeptic Ginger said:
Bogative, did you read the link? A police officer taking the report on the assault said he mistakenly assumed King had a black father and King was not the source of that error. And regardless of the link you cited, the claim originated on Breitbart.
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Skeptic Ginger, instead of trashing Breitbart, why don't you try clicking on some of their links?

They provide a link that goes to Kings twitter account where he states that he is "mixed."

They also provide a link to a 2012 article in Rebel Magazine in which it claimed that he is the son of a Caucasian mother and African-American father.

Either he told them that or they pulled it out of their derrière and he allowed it to stand without a correction.

It may yet come to light that his biological father is in fact black, but so far, even his own family member told Don Lemon of CNN that that is a lie.
 
Bogative said:
Skeptic Ginger, instead of trashing Breitbart, why don't you try clicking on some of their links?...
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Their videos on Planned Parenthood have shown what they are about.

It was outright deceit. It wasn't just partisan slant it was an outright purposeful falsehood that they promoted.

Period, end of story. I agree to disagree with you.
 
Corsair 115 said:
Why didn't you just offer the original source?
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Because the original source was a video and usually there is a day or so delay before you can even find a current news broadcast online. I hate video links. I want to read because it's faster.
 
Re The Blaze: I hadn't paid much attention to it before. But looking at their web page, it looks like a less than credible tabloid. I see one of the deceitful Planned Parenthood sells baby parts stories on there.

Ludicrous.
 
Bogative said:
Family member confirms he's a creepy-ass-cracker.
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Lemon also revealed that he had a conversation with King about his racial identity. “Initially he did not answer but later referred to himself as biracial,” he said. “But then when I asked him if that’s what it shows on his birth certificate I did not hear back from him. No answer on that.”
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Dumb question. Nobody's birth certificate says anything about what race they are. I looked at mine the other day and it contained no information about my race or the race of my parents.

ETA: it looked very much like this.
 
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Puppycow said:
Dumb question. Nobody's birth certificate says anything about what race they are. I looked at mine the other day and it contained no information about my race or the race of my parents.
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older ones do. Mine (from the late 50s) certainly does. So does my wife's (from the early 60s). apparently we're both Caucasian. which would explain the sunburns and love of white bread and mayo. :D
 
Skeptic Ginger said:
Re The Blaze: I hadn't paid much attention to it before. But looking at their web page, it looks like a less than credible tabloid. I see one of the deceitful Planned Parenthood sells baby parts stories on there.

Ludicrous.
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it's Glenn Beck's, so it's about a fraction of an inch better than InfoWars.
 
Skeptic Ginger said:
I believe it.

Chalk another deceit up to Breitbart and the right wing blogosphere.
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Assuming for a moment that the sites that first published stories about this got it completely wrong... so what?

When the Rachel Dolezol thing broke, the entire nation including the entire mainstream media, including all of the sources you feel are credible and way better than Breitbart, were ALL completely fascinated with it.

They ran endless stories for weeks about her and how interesting and scandalous it was for a prominent activist who represented herself as black to turn out to actually be white.

These stories started when the issue was not yet clearly resolved. The stories started with uncertainty in them.

The Dolezol saga could have gone this same way. There was a point before it had all been exposed and nailed down where she could have ended up coming out with a similar tale of adultery with a light skinned black man being her actual father, etc.

It's easy to forget now because we ended up with a nice, fairly tidy resolution to the whole thing and we ended up with clarity. We ended up with pictures of her as a young woman where she was blatantly not just white, but blonde. Her own parents were helpful in exposing her, as was her brother or step brother or whatever.

But to pretend that the entire media wasn't already on top of that story well before it had all been resolved would be a total lie.

So, from the perspective of Breitbart, Daily Caller, or whoever... it looked like maybe there was another similar story revolving around Shaun King breaking. In all the stories I've seen from those sites, btw, it was all presented as uncertain and as "here are accusations being made in the blogosphere, and here is the evidence they're presenting."

There was enough "there" there for those sites to feel it was legitimate to try to break (or get in on the breaking of) another Dolezol situation. As long as they were journalistically responsible enough to say "here are the accusations being made, here's who's saying it, here's what they're presenting as evidence", and they were - what's the problem?

What has been going on has not been some horrible racist hate campaign against this poor soul. It has been the media (which I have massive problems with, mind you) simply doing their initial pass at the story and then covering new developments in it. His (convincing, I'd say) essay explaining everything is also part of what they're covering.

If you want to talk about the vile nature of tabloid journalism, and the fact that we even consider peoples' personal lives to be a valid target of journalistic inquiry... then you and I could probably find a lot of common ground on that topic. Then again, it probably is somewhat legitimate for people to be interested when it seems like someone may be misrepresenting themselves and their identity when they're involved in an identity based movement. It may be legitimate for the media to try to get to the bottom of that. That's a topic for debate.

For my own part, since this story first broke I wasn't really sure what to make of it. I was unaware of this person beforehand. Since first seeing his picture, I thought some of his facial features looked consistent with a low, but discernible amount of black heritage. On the other hand, he was a case which clearly was landing in the "uncertainty zone" to a degree, and I knew guys in high school who, if you took away the facial hair and grew out his head hair, would have looked very much like his year book photo from the 90's. Those guys were white.

I think what you have here is someone who had an identity crisis to some degree because he lived with a white family, but wasn't able to successfully disappear into the white world entirely. His other option was to embrace his blackness, such as it was, full force. I've seen this a lot of times with very light skinned blacks who over-compensate and make a big show of their blackness. Super common.

So he probably made a conscious decision to keep his facial hair and his head hair styled in ways which accentuated his low level of black DNA.

This is someone whose genetic makeup is clearly overwhelmingly more white than it is black, and someone who pretty clearly made conscious effort to appear more black than he would without that conscious effort. So it's not that shocking that he could be misidentified as a possible Dolezol 2.0 especially in a climate where that story was so recent and so big.

I have failed to detect this horrible journalistic malfeasance and deceit you seem to have detected.

At this point, I think he'd be a perfect guest for Henry Louis Gates' "Finding Your Roots" program.
 
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Given the human propensity for both travel and having sex with the locals, anyone claiming to be a pure anything is fooling themselves. Technically speaking, we are all of mixed heritage.
 
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