Just when you think legacy media can’t be any more despicable, they find a way to prove you wrong.
On Monday, the sports blog known as Deadspin — which is owned by G/O Media — published a hit piece in which Senior Writer Carron J. Phillips falsely accused a young Kansas City Chiefs fan of dawning blackface during the team’s Sunday game against the Las Vegas Raiders. Upon clicking on Phillips’ article, readers are greeted with the headline, “The NFL needs to speak out against the Kansas City Chiefs fan in Black face, Native headdress,” accompanied by a picture of a young fan wearing a Chiefs jersey and American Indian headdress with half of his face painted black.
“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,” Phillips fumed.
Anyone who solely reads Phillips’ article and nothing else about the so-called “controversy” would likely take the senior writer’s “reporting” as true — that a young fan showed up to Sunday’s game in blackface with the intent to mock black and Native Americans. As per usual with America’s irreparably broken media, however, Phillips’ accusations are total bunk.
Different camera angles reveal that the other half of the Chiefs fan’s face — the side Phillips chose to omit — is painted red. In other words, his face was painted
