Two key and prominent leaders of the influential Black Lives Matter movement, DeRay Mckesson and Atlanta's Shaun King, publicly sparred via Twitter Sunday night and shortly thereafter starting trending.
Credit: Jennifer Brett
Credit: Jennifer Brett
" Y'all know, I've always been Shaun King's biggest defender, ever since he wrote that article re: the distance between (Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson) and (Michael Brown)'s body. But, as a former board member of JusticeTogether, I didn't know about the money or about the abrupt end. I had/have questions."
Mckesson said he reached out to King via texts and calls but that his calls went to voicemail.
King responded with a nine-part tweet and then a lengthy statement.
His final post, the statement, ended with an apology to Mckesson but said "we aren't really partners on this path."
Black Lives Matter activists have kept a national focus on issues including police brutality and racial inequality. In October, activists in Atlanta disrupted presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton's speech at Clark Atlanta University.
King responded with a series of tweets and denied ever misleading anyone about his racial background.
King followed up with a Daily Kos column saying in part, "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."
Following the recent publicly aired disagreement between King and Mckesson, Yiannopoulos posted this lengthy update recently .
Here's a look at some of the on-line commentary:
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