{"id":42462,"date":"2015-08-31T01:03:58","date_gmt":"2015-08-31T01:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=42462"},"modified":"2016-10-26T22:36:48","modified_gmt":"2016-10-26T22:36:48","slug":"conservatives-are-missing-the-point-of-black-lives-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=42462","title":{"rendered":"Conservatives Are Missing the Point of Black Lives Matter"},"content":{"rendered":"

Conservatives Are Missing the Point of Black Lives Matter<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The Atlantic<\/a>
\n2015-08-26<\/p>\n

Adrienne Green<\/a><\/strong>, Editorial Fellow<\/p>\n

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\nCourtesy of Shaun King<\/small><\/p>\n

Those that questioned Shaun King<\/a> about his race think that it\u2019s relevant to the movement. They\u2019re wrong.<\/em><\/p>\n

Shaun King<\/a>, a prominent figure in the Black Lives Matter<\/a> movement, responded last week to accusations published by some conservative websites that he has lied about being biracial, and about being the victim of racially-motivated attacks.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe reports about my race, about my past, and about the pain I\u2019ve endured are all lies,\u201d he wrote on Thursday in [an] article for Daily Kos<\/em><\/a>, the liberal news site where he works.<\/p>\n

Both The Daily Caller<\/em><\/a>\u2014which referred to King as \u201cthe facebook pastor\u201d\u2014and Breitbart.com<\/a> cited a police report from 1995, which listed King\u2019s identity as white. King, who claims the incident that resulted in the police report was an example of racial tensions that had surfaced at his school, offered harrowing details about the brutality he says he faced.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn March of 1995, it all boiled over and a racist mob of nearly a dozen students beat me severely, first punching me from all sides,\u201d King wrote. \u201cWhen I cradled into a fetal position on the ground they stomped me mercilessly, some with steel-toed boots, for about 20 seconds. That day changed the entire trajectory of my life.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In an attempt to defend his identity and silence his critics, King offered up a complicated family history, identifying his biological parents as a white mother and \u201clight skinned black man,\u201d who, The Washington Post<\/em> reports, is not the man listed on his birth certificate<\/a>…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Conservatives Are Missing the Point of Black Lives Matter The Atlantic 2015-08-26 Adrienne Green, Editorial Fellow Courtesy of Shaun King Those that questioned Shaun King about his race think that it\u2019s relevant to the movement. They\u2019re wrong. Shaun King, a prominent figure in the Black Lives Matter movement, responded last week to accusations published by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8,26,23674,20],"tags":[20867,20782,6001],"class_list":["post-42462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-social-justice","category-usa","tag-adrienne-green","tag-shaun-king","tag-the-atlantic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42462","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=42462"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42463,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42462\/revisions\/42463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}