“All murals and stained glass windows of white Jesus, and his European mother, and their white friends should also come down,” King wrote in a second tweet. “They are a gross form of white supremacy.”
Who is this dude?

Shaun King is a Black Lives Matter Activist, former surrogate on Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’s 2020 presidential campaign, and was awarded the Oprah Winfrey Scholarship while attending Morehouse College in Atlanta.
He founded http://aHomeinHaiti.org  as a subsidiary of Courageous Church and used eBay and Twitter to raise $1.5 million to send tents to Haiti after the 2010 Haiti earthquake, which later the Daily Beast investigated saying there were discrepancies in the amounts raised.
"Although King claimed to have raised $1 million for Haiti disaster relief in 2010, the Miriam Center, a Christian mission and beneficiary of the funds, reported that $540,000 had been raised — and that only $200,000 had ever actually been granted to the center"
Other controversies:

He started a crowdfunding project, raising $60k for the family of Tamir Rice without their knowledge.

Activists on Twitter questioned if he took the $100,000 reward money for information that led to the arrest of the men who shot 7 yr old Jazmine Barnes
King has been accused of raising funds for causes that were never received by those he was fundraising for. According to BuzzFeed News, he founded an organization called Justice Together, which he raised several thousand dollars for and then abruptly shuttered
Shaun King has also been battling allegations that he is actually a white man posing as a Black person. While King maintains, rather ambiguously, that he is actually biracial, CNN‘s Don Lemon says that a “family member” of King tells him that King is actually white.
And yet, he's received multiple prestigious awards: Samuel Peabody Award for Journalism from the Citizen’s Committee for Children in New York, BET's Humanitarian Hero Award, TIME Magazine's 25 Most Influential People on the Internet, BET's Social Movement Award
Yeah, seems like a real nice guy with no questionable connections or motives who deserves awards and scholarships for his stand up character, activism within the Black community and all of his humanitarian efforts

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