Shaun King Race Love Hate And Me Analysis

The author of this very unique article Race, love, hate, and me: A distinctly American story is Shaun King, a fare skinned man that has been a topic of discussion in recent news in regards to allegations that he falsified his ethnicity in order to get in to Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia. King writes this letter in response to the media’s portrayal of King and how the entire experience has affected him as a black man in America. King has several key points that he provides to the reader that explain his stance in regard to his ethnicity. One of his key points is that he isn’t quite sure who his biological father is, because his mother had multiple partners that she was involved with which makes it very difficult for him to identify who his father exactly was. He also says that he doesn’t know the accurate number of siblings that he actually has and that his siblings all have different parents. His other …show more content…
The question that is presented is if the King’s appeals are actually solid enough to effectively prove or disprove his case and I believe that Kings stances. My answer is that I strongly believe that his stances are effective enough to prove that he is indeed a African American, but there are several arguments that are being made that can hurt his case.
This particular article contains several arguments that I believe are slightly affecting King’s argument and the first one is the argument of ‘’Begging the Question”. King says that he is African American reason being is, because he other people such as his teacher have discussed with him his ethnicity and ultimately concluded that he was African American based of who his supposed relatives were. However, if his mother is white and he doesn’t fully know who