Civil Rights Activist Shaun King Says His Biological Father Is A Light Skinned Black Man

Shaun King Responds To Race Rumors


Civil Rights activist Shaun King is responded to backlash that received throughout social media in the last 72 hours of people questioning his race because his father is a white man.

He penned an open letter stating that his white father is not his biological. His real father is a light skinned black man. which stemmed from an affair his mother had. he also says he does not know how many siblings he got. 


Here is part of the latter

 "The reports about my race, about my past, and about the pain I’ve endured are all lies. My mother is a senior citizen. I refuse to speak in detail about the nature of my mother’s past, or her sexual partners, and I am gravely embarrassed to even be saying this now, but I have been told for most of my life that the white man on my birth certificate is not my biological father and that my actual biological father is a light-skinned black man. My mother and I have discussed her affair. She was a young woman in a bad relationship and I have no judgment. This has been my lived reality for nearly 30 of my 35 years on earth. I am not ashamed of it, or of who I am—never that—but I was advised by my pastor nearly 20 years ago that this was not a mess of my doing and it was not my responsibility to fix it. All of my siblings and I have different parents. I'm actually not even sure how many siblings I have. It is horrifying to me that my most personal information, for the most nefarious reasons, has been forced out into the open and that my private past and pain have been used as jokes and fodder to discredit me and the greater movement for justice in America. I resent that lies have been reported as truth and that the obviously racist intentions of these attacks have been consistently downplayed at my expense and that of my family."