Posted on 11/29/2023 8:47:18 AM PST by Red Badger
The mother of a young football fan who wore a headdress and painted his face red and black to a Kansas City Chiefs game has blasted Deadspin for accusing him of “doubling up” on racism against black and Native communities — noting that her son is himself Native American.
Holden Armenta became an unexpected focus of an article by senior writer Carron Phillips that focused on a photo of the boy standing sideways, suggesting he was wearing blackface with no mention of the red side.
“The NFL needs to speak out against the Kansas City Chiefs fan in Black face, Native headdress,” read the headline, which accused the boy of “doubling up on the racism.”
Phillips, a former New York Daily News reporter, also slammed Holden’s Native American headdress and his “Tomahawk Chop” gesture, claiming the boy “found a way to hate Black people and Native Americans at the same time.”
“It takes a lot to disrespect two groups of people at once,” Phillips wrote in the article, which has since been tagged with a community note on X branding it “purposely deceiving.”
“This is what happens when you ban books, stand against Critical Race Theory, and try to erase centuries of hate,” he wrote. “You give future generations the ammunition they need to evolve and recreate racism better than before.”
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Video of him doing the chop with chiefs players
What a racist (sarcasm)
This is truly mentally ill. These people are so full of hate it must be eating them alive every day when they awake.
...and there were numerous Native American in head dress at the game. It is Native American Heritage Month.
Well, hopefully, this kid gets a very, very good attorney, and has all of his college and a lot more paid for out of this idiots public defamation.
Which is why I despise the MSM.
The solution is to learn to pay no attention to these behavior and anti free speech police. Pay them no mind ever. This is a new phenomenon that builds because we oddly do pay attention. No response is best.
Wokeism puts people to sleep.
This news was on Fox early this morning and in the opinion of the news reader and his guest the article is outright defamation and slander. A good lawyer should be able to transfer much of the financial worth of DeadSpin and the article writer the the kid and his family.
I will respectfully disagree: unless absurd writings/behavior like this is challenged, it will be repeated. There should be a consequence to bad actors taking bad actions, for without accountability, there is no deterrent.
Good for her! What a misleading photo!
We wouldn't be here, at least on that issue. The more that is surrendered to the Woke Brigade, the more that will be demanded. So he's right because it would have been "controversy" on some other issue. I'd make some suggestions about what those demands might be but I don't want to give those lunatics ideas and it is very difficult to make something so outlandish that some of these idiots won't run with them.
Mom should have tweeted that she now understands Phillips’ point, that it is a disgrace for someone to have black skin or red skin.
I knew the ‘Redskins’ name change would not be the last of it.
PETA, the animal rights nuts, want all animal names erased from team names.................
I agree, point out their idiocy and insanity and move on, with the possible exception of hiring a good lawyer to sue the crap of people like Deadspin and this writer.
What a P.O.S. Carron Phillips is. Should change his name to Carrion, as his soul stinks.
My brain is too addled to remember...
How did the US get out of the Yellow Journalism era? If this was just the morning paper you could choose not to buy. But the internet is flooded with so many layers of convoluted bullshit its impossible to escape it without just dropping out of society.
Black Karen get woodsheded.
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