Rachel Dolezal 2.0, #BlackLivesMatter Activist Shaun King is White

Common enough that there has been an important legal decision and sections of legal advice about it. Common enough that you can Google the topic and find tens - if not hundreds - of thousands of sites discussing the issue.

 

What does it matter if it's common? The question is whether it's the case here.

In the Rachel Dolezal case, the reporter talked to Dolezal's parents. That would have been a good move here.

 

Or maybe the lawyer encouraged them to drop it after it made no progress because it's a small town in Kentucky where the legal system may have actually worked against them. Or maybe the cost of continuing the suit was no longer worth the potential reward.

 

Breitbart would have had no story if he had given them this story when they asked, and presented them with some evidence.

If he had cooperated with them, what would they have run?

So, if he's telling us the truth, why wouldn't he have just done that, instead of letting this all erupt, and then have to deal with it? Why would he put his mother thought this?

This all sounds like a defense he came up with after the fact.

 

I'm not sure what your point is here. You do realize they have tests today that can reveal a person's African genetic lineage without identifying the specific parent, right? If the father was a light-skinned African American, there are tests that can prove that fact, and without any need to reveal his exact identity. And then the Breitbarts will have been conclusively beaten down and his family spared future scrutiny. Presuming he's telling the truth, seems to me like the win win answer for him.

 

He says he doesn't know who his father is? Good enough for me -- he's black.

 

I hope you guys understand how incredibly invasive it is to ask someone to submit to a DNA test for the world to see.

Jesus Christ already.

 

Yeah, I'm sure that's it.

That multi-million dollar suit, let's just drop it.

 

YF is going to be right here.

His questions and examples pass a smell test so much better than anything King is offering. And yet here we are doing the guilty till proven innocent thing.

 

Your indignation is warranted but this is the world we live in.

 

It's all absurd.

He identifies as black. That's fine with me.

But for him say, "I've never made a big deal about my race," is just nonsense.

And, it's his fellow travelers in the #BlackLivesMovement who would be most upset with him if it turns out that both of his birth parents are white. Race is everything to them.

 

Well, yeah. People who are crusading for racial justice do tend to prioritize race. I mean, I know you can't understand why people would have a different experience than you with cops or hiring or anything else, but that is kind of an important factor there.