A writer for a sports blog called Deadspin targeted a child wearing face paint at a Kansas City Chiefs football game, attempting to smear the boy as wearing “black face.”
The writer, Carron J. Phillips, posted a misleading picture of the child, showing only one side of his face.
X’s Community Notes explained the other side of the boy’s face was painted red, thus wearing his team’s colors for the game.
“The NFL needs to speak out against the Kansas City Chiefs fan in Black face, Native headdress,” Deadspin posted Monday.
“The picture on the article is misleading. Other pictures of the child in question show that the other half of his face is painted red, black and red being the team’s colors,” Community Notes explained.
The NFL needs to speak out against the Kansas City Chiefs fan in Black face, Native headdress https://t.co/9eGBsA8nca
— Deadspin (@Deadspin) November 27, 2023
Phillips wrote on Deadspin:
It takes a lot to disrespect two groups of people at once. But on Sunday afternoon in Las Vegas, a Kansas City Chiefs fan found a way to hate Black people and the Native Americans at the same time.
It was as if Jon Gruden’s emails had come…
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