Shaun King tweeted (i.e. stole) this info/image without giving appropriate credit to the source:

[demmiblue]

I’m a historian by training. My undergraduate and graduate degrees are in history.

Let me teach you something. ⁣
⁣
Every man with a red dot on their face who signed the Declaration of Independence OWNED and enslaved Africans. Over 75% of them.

The rest permitted it.

Link to tweet

Here is the original source:

This is one of the most famous paintings in American history: Declaration of Independence.

I decided to put red dots on all the men who held slaves.

Next time someone puts them on a pedestal and says we can't question their judgement on guns or whatever, show them this image.

Link to tweet

The rest of the very informative thread is here:

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1168189409549803524.html

[hlthe2b]

1. Not surprised...

[BannonsLiver]

2. Well he's at least stopped talking about how much he hates Joe Biden and the party

For a few minutes or so. So it’s a net plus, I guess.

[lapucelle]

3. It's not the first time he's been embroiled in a plagiarism controversy.

Daily News fires editor after Shaun King accused of plagiarism

https://money.cnn.com/2016/04/19/media/shaun-king-daily-news-plagiarism-accusations/

[Beakybird]

4. I'm all for taking down the statues of slave owners, but putting red dots on historic paintings?

Arrest this man!

[lapucelle]

5. He deleted the tweet.

[sweetloukillbot]

6. On to the next grift! nt

[Cha]

12. Thank you for telling us.

[Polybius]

19. This one was worse

[demmiblue]

7. He deleted the tweet. n/t

[bottomofthehill]

8. Due to the amazing damage to the environment and the habitability of the earth

In 200 years, people will be looking back at car owners in the 20th and 21st century in the same way that we look at these slave owners.

[demmiblue]

9. ...

[misanthrope]

10. Now, now

They won't limit their scorn to automobile owners.

[Spider Jerusalem]

13. Awfully optimistic of you to think there will still BE people in 200 years (n/t)

[misanthrope]

11. For someone who declares

"I’m a historian by training; my undergraduate and graduate degrees are in history," he doesn't seem to reflect the gravity of the Enlightenment or the novel nature of the Declaration of Independence in the context of history's broader sweep.

[Wanderlust988]

14. Shaun King is nothing but a hustler

My cousin went to school with him in Woodford County, KY. He's as white as they come. He wasn't "woke" at all in high school. He's just decided as he became an adult that he can make himself look passable as black and make a shitload of money off of black racism and it's worked. He's got everyone fooled.

[marmar]

16. "off of black racism"

Huh?

[Maven]

15. LOL. What really makes this twice as ridiculous is the mansplaining tone of his tweet

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"Let me teach you something"

ROFL

[demmiblue]

17. FFS... "junior staffer wrote it, but I signed off."

(After I posted this OP, I also saw a post here showing the pic that did not give attribution to the original source. Get better, people.)

[Polybius]

18. He also supports toppling white Jesus statues

But guess what? There are zero public Jesus statues in the US, so that means he supports going on private property and vandelizing them. The man is as extreme as you can get.