Black Lives Matter organizer and Oprah scholarship recipient who was 'revealed to be white' refuses to answer questions about his race - claiming he is the victim of a 'white supremacist conspiracy'

• Shaun King, an author and writer who is one of the leading voices speaking out against police brutality on social media, has claimed he is mixed
• A report now claims he is white, citing a police report that labels him as white and claiming his parents on his birth certificate are both white 
• King applied for and then accepted an Oprah scholarship to Morehouse College, which are only given to black men 
• He also called the vicious attack he suffered in high school a hate crime that was motivated by race 
• 'Out of LOVE for my family, I've never gone public with my racial story because it's hurtful, scandalous, and it's MY STORY,' said King
• King also said he is the victim of a 'white supremacist conspiracy' 

A key figure in the Black Lives Matter movement who claimed he was the victim of a horrific hate crime in his youth as a result his race has been outed as white.

Shaun King, an author and writer who is one of the leading voices speaking out against police brutality on social media, has claimed he is mixed. 

King has claimed in past interviews that his father is black and his mother is white, but his birth certificate lists his parents as both white.

In addition, King's race is listed as white in the police report of the aforementioned attack that occurred while he was in high school. 

King also applied for and then accepted an Oprah scholarship to Morehouse College, which are only given to black men.

The 35-year-old  responded to the controversy on Twitter by saying; 'Out of LOVE for my family, I've never gone public with my racial story because it's hurtful, scandalous, and it's MY STORY.'



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