{"id":42353,"date":"2015-08-23T01:21:34","date_gmt":"2015-08-23T01:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=42353"},"modified":"2016-10-26T22:37:01","modified_gmt":"2016-10-26T22:37:01","slug":"why-right-wing-bloggers-are-desperate-to-prove-biracial-people-arent-black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=42353","title":{"rendered":"Why Right-Wing Bloggers Are Desperate To Prove Biracial People Aren\u2019t Black"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/justice\/2015\/08\/21\/3693786\/shaun-king-multiracial-identity\/\" target=\"_blank\">Why Right-Wing Bloggers Are Desperate To Prove Biracial People Aren\u2019t Black<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\" target=\"_blank\">Think Progress<\/a><br \/>\n2015-08-21<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/avivash\" target=\"_blank\">Aviva Shen<\/a><\/strong>, Senior Editor<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/justice\/2015\/08\/21\/3693786\/shaun-king-multiracial-identity\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.thinkprogress.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/21112035\/shaunking.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small><em>Shaun King, right, addresses the controversy over his racial identity.<\/em><\/small><\/p>\n<p>Right-wing media has been abuzz over the past few weeks with rumors that <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Black_Lives_Matter\" target=\"_blank\">Black Lives Matter<\/a> activist and writer <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShaunKing\" target=\"_blank\">Shaun King<\/a> is not actually black. <em>Breitbart<\/em> and other more mainstream outlets like the <em>Daily Beast<\/em> compared King to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rachel_Dolezal\" target=\"_blank\">Rachel Dolezal<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/spokanenaacp.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Spokane NAACP<\/a> leader whose parents <em>revealed<\/em> she was white earlier this year. The harassment escalated so much that King finally published an emotional <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=42337\" target=\"_blank\">personal account<\/a> Thursday evening, explaining that his biological father is an unknown black man who had an affair with his mother.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2014\/12\/01\/thedc-investigates-is-wapos-wesley-lowery-black\/\" target=\"_blank\">same bloggers<\/a> have apparently also \u201cinvestigated\u201d the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WesleyLowery\/status\/634531775197356032\" target=\"_blank\">parentage of Wesley Lowery<\/a>, a biracial <em>Washington Post<\/em> reporter who covers the Black Lives Matter movement.<\/p>\n<p>The harassment of King recalls a long American tradition of telling multiracial people what their identities can and cannot contain. The notorious \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=3208\" target=\"_blank\">one drop rule<\/a>\u201d \u2014 which legally declared anyone with black ancestry, no matter how light-skinned or blue-eyed they were, as mulatto or colored \u2014 was central to maintaining a white supremacist hierarchy in the South well into the 20th century. Many people who could get away with it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/codeswitch\/2014\/10\/07\/354310370\/a-chosen-exile-black-people-passing-in-white-america\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cpassed\u201d as white<\/a> so as to enjoy the privileges of segregated services closed off to black people&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/justice\/2015\/08\/21\/3693786\/shaun-king-multiracial-identity\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why Right-Wing Bloggers Are Desperate To Prove Biracial People Aren\u2019t Black Think Progress 2015-08-21 Aviva Shen, Senior Editor Shaun King, right, addresses the controversy over his racial identity. Right-wing media has been abuzz over the past few weeks with rumors that Black Lives Matter activist and writer Shaun King is not actually black. Breitbart and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1467,8,6462,23674,20],"tags":[20793,20782,20792],"class_list":["post-42353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-law","category-media-archive","category-passing-2","category-social-justice","category-usa","tag-aviva-shen","tag-shaun-king","tag-think-progress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42353"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42385,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42353\/revisions\/42385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}