Shaun KingVerified account

I’m starting to wonder who you’re working for @Deray? Who’s paying you to do these things? What side are you really on? What are you deflecting from? Show us your receipts. Where are your tax returns? Where’s the report on your finances? Do what my husband & I did.

Just call him what you want to call him: White. You’re spinning your wheels with endless insults trying to call him everything but that. But let’s be real. At the root of so much of this is your disdain for him bc you actually don’t seem him as being one of “us.”

You’re like the white people who want to say “nigger” so bad but instead say uppity, rude, and even bitch.

I know this bc in one breath you say to white people that even if they see Black folx going in on each other, they have no place to jump in. But when you post about my husband, and white folx are all up in the comments, you don’t chime in to stop it. I see it.

It’s because to you, he’s not one of you. This isn’t “infighting” to you because you’ve placed Shaun squarely on the outside of your circles. He’s not Black enough for you. You’ve been brainwashed and are drinking the water of your own oppression.

But were you there when Shaun was conceived? Were you there when he had tobacco spit thrown in his face by rednecks or was chased home and called "nigger" by a pickup truck full of bigots? Were you there when he took that ass whooping from a white mob when he just a boy?

I’ve had folx tell me I just need to grow thick skin. It’s been five years of this bullshit, and I don’t think my skin can grow any thicker. I’m in counseling. My kids are in counseling. Other activists are literally killing themselves over this stuff.

WE ARE PEOPLE. And words have power. You can’t just say horrible things about someone and expect it to mean nothing. You can’t launch entire smear campaigns and expect it not resonate in their actual lives.