I am utterly disgusted with the assaults on Shuan King from the left and right! After reading this account from Joy Reid, I'm even more heart-broken over the treatment of this man:
On Thursday afternoon, MSNBC’s Joy Reid came to the defense of embattled #BlackLivesMatters activist Shaun King, saying she was convinced that he actually was biracial and the white man publicly identified as his father was not actually his father.
Reid blamed the uproar on “three right-wing blogs,” who were “stoking racial resentment for their audience, it’s what they do. You should remember what happened to Shirley Sherrod at the hands of Andrew Breitbart; this is a similar situation.”
“I did talk to Shaun, I can tell you that Shaun King is biracial. There’s no reason to doubt he’s biracial,” she said.
Reid revealed that the man listed on King’s birth certificate is not his biological father, and Shaun had learned of that fact when he was around nine or ten. “I think getting into further details about who his father is unfairly drags his mother into a story in which she is not a public figure. This is a private story between his mom, dad, and the person who is his biological father.”
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How disgraceful to drag this man into a battle over his own freakin' identity.
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