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‘Deadspin’ reporter Carron Phillips has taught humanity a valuable lesson: Everything is racist.
Carron J. Phillips should win a Pulitzer Prize for his thoughtful Deadspinpiece labeling a nine-year-old white boy a genocidal, African/Native American-hating racist for inexplicably wearing blackface to a football game.
Phillips, himself an oppressed minority because he is black and exists, chided the NFL for failing to condemn Holden Armenta, who recently sported red and black face paint and a feathered Native American headdress during a recent Kansas City Chiefs game. (READ MORE from Matt Manochio: The New York Times Apologizes … Sort Of)
“While it isn’t the league’s responsibility to stop racism and hate from being taught in the home, they are a league that has relentlessly participated in prejudice,” Phillips wrote in his Nov. 27 piece. Indeed. When one thinks of prejudiced organizations, what immediately comes to mind are the KKK, Islamic Jihad, and the National Football League.
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Carron J. Phillips should win a Pulitzer Prize for his thoughtful Deadspinpiece labeling a nine-year-old white boy a genocidal, African/Native American-hating racist for inexplicably wearing blackface to a football game.
Phillips, himself an oppressed minority because he is black and exists, chided the NFL for failing to condemn Holden Armenta, who recently sported red and black face paint and a feathered Native American headdress during a recent Kansas City Chiefs game. (READ MORE from Matt Manochio: The New York Times Apologizes … Sort Of)
“While it isn’t the league’s responsibility to stop racism and hate from being taught in the home, they are a league that has relentlessly participated in prejudice,” Phillips wrote in his Nov. 27 piece. Indeed. When one thinks of prejudiced organizations, what immediately comes to mind are the KKK, Islamic Jihad, and the National Football League.
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Carron Phillips has taught humanity a valuable lesson that I have heeded: a mascot can be racist, and to deny this is itself racist.
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