Is it racist to dress up in support of your favorite sports team? Well, according to Carron Phillips, it is — especially if you are a child.
Phillips, who is a writer from the sports website Deadspin, attempted to accuse a young boy of racism for dressing up as the Kansas City Chiefs’ mascot. The boy’s name is Holden Armenta. He was wearing black face paint on one half of his face and red on the other.
The article used a side profile of Holden as it’s proof, which showed only the black side. “The NFL needs to speak out against the Kansas City Chiefs fan in Black face, Native headdress,” read the headline.
The article went on to accuse the boy of “doubling up on the racism.”
Sara Gonzales believes this was “a disgusting attempt to sick an outrage mob on a young child” who seems to have been Phillip’s target because he was white.
“I hope they Nick Sandman them,” Chad Prather tells Jaco Booyens and Gonzales.
Booyens notes that it was clear that the intent was to “go after the most vulnerable and say, ‘Oh, I can score points here.’”
Phillips, whose first name is pronounced “Karen,” doubled down on his attack of the child in a tweet.
“For the idiots in my mentions who are treating this as some harmless act because the other side of his face was painted red, I could make the argument that it makes it even worse. Y’all are the ones who hate Mexicans but wear sombreros on Cinco,” Phillips wrote.
However, over half of the players in the NFL are African-American. Prather notes that it then makes no sense for a racist child to be at an NFL game, let alone cheering them on.
“He’s cheering them on, supporting their careers, funding them,” Prather says, adding, “If Patrick Mahomes, the quarterback for the Chiefs, had walked up to that kid, that kid would crap his pants with excitement.”
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