Shaun King
4h ·
Today, I’ve had to make a heartbreaking decision.
After a combination of Fox News, the NY Post, and other outlets posted pictures of my home across the Internet, we’ve now seen our address posted all over the Internet.
Strangers have already started coming by the house.
My kids can’t even go outside and play during the final month of summer break.
So, we’re moving.
I suppose it might always be this way. I don’t know.
My wife bought this home, her first, after working her ass off for 20+ years. It took her nearly a year to even be able to purchase it.
It was a quiet and peaceful refuge for her, for our 5 kids, for the dogs, and for our mothers. And it wasn’t excessive. Again, she got a literal FHA loan to purchase it. I’m not even on the loan.
But now we’re not safe.
And will never be safe here again.
I’m so hurt for them.
I’ve had to endure seeing my wife cry multiple times this week over the devastation of it all.
I waffle back and forth between being utterly heartbroken over it and so angry that I could scream.
That people did this to my wife and kids, with no concern for their safety is despicable.
And shame on every Black man and woman who shared it with glee. Shame on you for what you’ve done to them.
That you’ve fallen for so many lies about me, and decided to turn the lives of my wife and kids upside down in the process has taken a chunk out of my soul.
I’ll be honest with you.
I’m going to be bitter over this for a very long time.
I took July off of social media to just be with my family and then this.
I don’t deserve this.
They damn sure don’t deserve this.
But here we are.
I’m going to need a few weeks to get us set up somewhere else, but this will clearly never work for us.
@MrsRaiKing - you are the best. Sometimes I wish you never had the burden of even being connected to me and the work I do. I hate that wives and partners of so many civil rights leaders have to endure all of this. It’s just not OK.
I love you and the kids so much.
I’ll do all I can to make this right.
Your friend and brother,
Shaun
