Black Activists Turn on Shaun King for Collapse of ‘Justice Together’ Org, Financial Irregularities
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If you’re going to hang around this neighborhood, you’re gonna have to get used to the taste, gentle reader. For, every time your beloved gaytriarch tells you someone is up to no good, he is proven right a hundred times over.
As of this weekend, there’s yet another scandal engulfing journalist and activist Shaun King, the man Breitbart revealed was
presenting himself as a biracial leader to the Black Lives Matter movement
while having no idea whether he was even black. This time, King is under fire from his own supporters.
Allegations of financial impropriety have dogged King for years. On Saturday,
the hashtag #ShaunKingLetMeDown trended in the United States
as erstwhile King supporters, frustrated by the failure of King’s “Justice Together” project, began demanding answers to financial questions people have been quietly asking for a long time.
What began as a drizzle of criticism soon became a level-5 social media shitstorm, with thousands of tweets from supporters condemning King’s slipshod management and sharing articles and videos related to Breitbart’s investigations. King lurched into damage control mode and deleted Facebook posts by the dozens, covering his tracks by blaming “trolls” and retweeting cover fire from progressive agitators such as Brianna Wu.
Enjoying #ShaunKingLetMeDown and all the comments @ShaunKing is deleting from his Facebook. pic.twitter.com/hTpbPR3RU2— Milo Yiannopoulos (@Nero) November 8, 2015
As if calling his mom a whore not enough to piss off Black Twitter, @ShaunKing now avoiding financial allegations from his own supporters.— Milo Yiannopoulos (@Nero) November 8, 2015
Stop playing the victim and come clean about the money. And your race. https://t.co/0h0S5u53eY— Milo Yiannopoulos (@Nero) November 8, 2015
Because what's whiter than embezzlement? #ShaunKingLetMeDown— Jim Treacher (@jtLOL) November 8, 2015
How many centuries must there be of white Democrats exploiting black people before Americans wake up? #ShaunKingLetMeDown— John Nolte (@NolteNC) November 8, 2015
Though King and his supporters claim that trolls were responsible for the success of the hashtag, a cursory examination shows that it was actually black activists, at last disillusioned with their
“black” leader’s poor stewardship of his power
and funding, calling him to the carpet.
I excused his behavior until I couldnt. SK talks a good game, but he's all about the promotional spin. #ShaunKingLetMeDown— Chandra Paz (@ChandraPaz) November 7, 2015
#ShaunKingLetMeDown Was shutting down #JusticeTogether always the plan? Your directors were better than you treated them Shaun— Beth (@eaclem) November 7, 2015
State directors asked for clarity, accountability, a word. We started reachin out to the "board" 4 help. Sill silence. #ShaunKingLetMeDown— R.O.N.A. (@CallMeCharizma) November 7, 2015
Then he shows up, sends out a pithy email, and completely dismantles the one joint JT channel of communication. #ShaunKingLetMeDown— R.O.N.A. (@CallMeCharizma) November 7, 2015
100's of hours of work by volunteers gone in a moment #shaunkingletmedown https://t.co/zezrYpmrZp— Beth (@eaclem) November 7, 2015
Rallying under the hashtag
#ShaunKingLetMeDown, activists, Black Lives Matter supporters, gawkers and trolls generated over 9,000 tweets after @JusticeTogether, Shaun King’s 50-state “social justice” initiative, fell apart.
Terrible, just awful pic.twitter.com/eRqvujhqGH— Milo Yiannopoulos (@Nero) November 8, 2015
King has been kept at arm’s length, say observers, from the Black Lives Matter movement
since our revelations about his race
drove him to throw his own mother under the bus, claiming that
she had been unfaithful to the white man on his birth certificate with a person he cannot name but that he insists was a “light-skinned black man.”
Last Monday, I had a good conversation w/ @ShaunKing as I stepped down from the board of Justice Together, to focus my energy & time.— deray mckesson (@deray) November 8, 2015
I, too, learned about the end of Justice Together via email. & I'm working to understand more about the decisions and the q's being raised.— deray mckesson (@deray) November 8, 2015
I'm hopeful that we can all figure out how to work together towards shared goals re: equity & equality as the fight continues.— deray mckesson (@deray) November 8, 2015
I love my blackness. And yours.— deray mckesson (@deray) November 8, 2015
Progressives
attempted to discredit our explosive report
by linking it to a troll, but their efforts failed. King refused to submit to a DNA test when asked to by an African-American Political Action Committee. His reputation never recovered.
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