Wait. Did progressives sneak in a white dude in #blacklivesmatter in order to control it?

Because that would be hysterical.  See, there’s this guy called Shaun King, who is – or at least was – fairly well involved with #blacklivesmatter, or BLM.  He apparently gives good copy, too: always ready to give the media the quotes they need. …You know where this is going ,right?

[Shaun] King has been lionised by the press, praised as hero of civil rights and social activism. He has written extensively about a childhood in which he was terrorised by “decades old racial tensions.” He claims to have been “the focus of constant abuse of the resident rednecks of my school.”

Yet, in recent weeks, rumours have been circulating about his ethnicity.

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