Shaun King responds to accusations that he’s a fraud.

[EndDomination]

I know he's not a bad guy - and he has an absolutely massive platform - but he's in a precarious position.

I doubt he's a fraud, but at the same time he needs to be even more transparent.

 

[EndDomination]

It's already been proven time and again he is 100% white. Looks exactly like his 100% white Father and 100% white blood brother.

Just because you cut your hair into a low-cut fade don't make you mixed.

From what I've seen the only two pieces are his birth certificate and the man he says is not his father.

He looks like a mulatto to me - his story is *not* crazy at all in the Black community

 

[Doomsday]

From what I've seen the only two pieces are his birth certificate and the man he says is not his father.

He looks like a mulatto to me - his story is *not* crazy at all in the Black community

Says the man that looks exactly like him is not his father?

Yeah, ok.

 

[tru_m.a.c]

I believe him and have always believed him

I just think he is terrible at managing this stuff which is why he always fails in his campaigns.

His terrible ability to manage projects is why real activists on the ground don't like him.

That Ben Dixon had to sign an NDA and was forced out of the North Star says a lot to me. Rebuilding the North Star was Dixon's idea.

“When we launched The North Star, virtually every advisor I had insisted that we should not do written articles, podcasts, and video news at the same time,” King wrote. “I just knew we could do it. They were right.”

But seven former employees of The North Star—three of whom spoke anonymously out of fear of reprisal by King, and six of whom were told they had to sign nondisclosure agreements to receive severances—said the issue was less King’s over-ambition than his absenteeism, insistence on absolute control, and radical incompetence. They said he had little interest in feedback from staffers he had ostensibly brought on for their lengthy résumés and media experience, despite his own lack of the same. Two iterations of broadcast news shows were scrapped, and their staffs and hosts fired, before they ever aired, and Dixon was pushed out even as money poured in and the site remained underpopulated.

But most of that money, $20.8 million, is based on a 2018 fundraiser created by Charlotte and Dave Willner to benefit the immigrant advocacy group RAICES. While King promoted the fundraiser to his followers via social media, “it’s definitively false that any boosting he did was responsible for the amount of money that was raised,” Dave Willner told me. “We tracked growth pretty carefully—I was graphing it, in some cases, minute by minute. We have all the data. This isn’t my opinion. It definitely wasn’t him.”

“We had 22 volunteers in our living room at one point,” Charlotte Willner told me. “Shaun was not one of them... Any one person taking credit for it is antithetical to what we were trying to do.”

Asked about the Willners’ claims, King writes, “To this day, multiple staff members from RAICES have full unfiltered access to my Twitter and Facebook pages. They are my close friends. And they have used my pages hundreds of times to amplify countless fundraisers, petitions, news stories, and more. They have had access for several years now and use my pages almost daily. It’s hard to quantify or put a dollar value on what they’ve done, but I do so without hesitation.”

These 2 things aren't opinions.

 

[mastermind]

His terrible ability to manage projects is why real activists on the ground don't like him.

That Ben Dixon had to sign an NDA and was forced out of the North Star says a lot to me. Rebuilding the North Star was Dixon's idea.





These 2 things aren't opinions.

I totally believe dude is a narcissist and a control-freak. Everything I have read from him and others suggests that to me. Its why all of his campaigns and projects tend to fail. Nothing about what he does seems a grift though. Every time they say he a fraud, he pulls up the receipts to show otherwise.

Some of the other people who got prominence after Ferguson shouldn't be throwing stones from their glass houses though, like blue vest.

 

[horizon]

Good twitter thread on why 90% of blue check influencer attempted takedowns of Shaun King ring hollow

 

[tru_m.a.c]

I totally believe dude is a narcissist and a control-freak. Everything I have read from him and other suggests that to me. Its why all of his campaigns and projects tend to fail. Nothing about what he does seems a rift though. Every time they say he a fraud, he pulls up the receipt.

Some of the other people who got prominence after Ferguson shouldn't be throwing stones from their glass houses though, like blue vest.

I get what you're saying now. Umar is grifter. Shaun King is a terrible businessman.

 

[mastermind]

I get what you're saying now. Umar is grifter. Shaun King is a terrible businessman.

My bad, I didn't mean to come off as we were disagreeing. We don't.

 

[mastermind]

Good twitter thread on why 90% of blue check influencer attempted takedowns of Shaun King ring hollow

the last tweet is the most on-point to me:



That is also the big issue with those who come at King without anything substantial, and why most of them have fallen aside. They have no substance.

 

[GodinDaFlesh]

People think he's 100% white? Dude clearly has some black DNA in him.

 

[AndroidHero]

Regardless the man put a lot of work to expose racism and injustice, if it weren't for him some of the high profile cases of police brutality would have went unnoticed. So I'm not willing to just throw him to the bushes because of some unverified allegations.

 

[Pressure]

People think he's 100% white? Dude definitely has some black DNA in him.

nikkas say anything to shyt on someone putting in work.

 

[Kenny West]

"Father figure", really?
Deflection aside, I can point to people of questionable character who run charities that feed and provide medical care to those who otherwise wouldn't receive those things. Does the work they do make them above criticism?

Catholic church skated for years on the '"bu bu bu bu but they do important work" shield.

He posted recepits on his charity fund allocation, which is the OP

And thus we've come full circle

 

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It's already been proven time and again he is 100% white. Looks exactly like his 100% white Father and 100% white blood brother.

Just because you cut your hair into a low-cut fade don't make you mixed.

You skated right over what I asked where is the proof he is commiting fraud and taking money?

 

[Doomsday]

People think he's 100% white? Dude clearly has some black DNA in him.

From where? He already admitted his mom is white. So explain to me that the white man that looks exactly like him somehow isn't his real Father?

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