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Black Lives Matter leader accused of ‘pulling a Dolezal’

By Chris Perez August 19, 2015
https://nypost.com/2015/08/19/black-lives-matter-leader-accused-of-pulling-a-rachel-dolezal/

An investigative blogger claims that a prominent leader in the Black Lives Matter movement has been living as Rachel Dolezal 2.0 — by pretending to be biracial when he is actually white, even going as far as convincing Oprah Winfrey to give him a full-ride scholarship to a historically black college.

Shaun King, 35, has spent years touting online and in public that he is the “son of a Caucasian mother and an African-American father.”

While acting as a high-profile social activist, he has campaigned against “police brutality” and has been praised by blacks as a hero in the civil rights community. King has even written extensively about dealing with “decades old racial tension” during his childhood and being bullied by “the resident rednecks” of his school.

But blogger Vicki Pate claims it’s all a sham — and she says she has the evidence to prove that the Black Lives Matter advocate is 100% white, according to Breitbart.

Head of the investigative blog “Re-NewsIt!,” Pate has been assembling forensic accounts of King’s personal background and family tree.

She alleges that King’s birth certificate, which was obtained by Breitbart, shows a birth date of September 17, 1979 in Versailles, Kentucky and lists his father, Jeffery Wayne King, as being white, not black like he has claimed before in the past.

Pate charges that a man with the same as King’s dad has been the subject of multiple arrests in the Bluegrass State and can be seen in his mugshots as being clearly Caucasian.

He was born on November 11, 1955 — which would make him 23 at the time of King’s birth, the same exact age listed for his dad on his birth certificate, according to Breitbart.

In addition, King’s brother, Russ King — who is also white — has told Pate that their dad is in fact the man in the mugshots.

To make things even worse, public records show that there is only one Jeffery Wayne King living in the state of Kentucky, Breitbart reports.

Though it is unique, King’s case is ultimately one that sparks thoughts of Rachel Dolezal — a civil rights activist from Washington who spent years claiming she was biracial when she in fact had two white parents.

To this day, Dolezal still insists that she “identifies as black.”

While Pate claims that King has focused his efforts on deceiving his peers, friends and family, his racial ruse was apparently enough to get Oprah to cough up a full-ride to the historically black Morehouse College, despite the fact that the scholarships are given exclusively to black men, according to Breitbart.

“Oprah Winfrey paid my way through Morehouse,” King boasted in his Daily Kos diary in 2014. “The leadership scholarship that I received from her is why I have a college degree today. Five hundred other brothers have the exact same story.”