NFL Twitter Fails-New England Patriots Racist tweet
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This is just, well, we’re speechless. The photo above is a screenshot of an actual Tweet that the New England Patriots’ official Twitter account sent out Thursday night. It’s, obviously, now been deleted, but we promise you that this isn’t made up or photoshopped.
As for what happened, well, we get what the Pats were trying to do—give a shutout to the follower who helped them reach a milestone—but how in the hell did this make it past a human’s eyes?! Was it really just automated? No one thought that automatically tweeting out pictures of a Patriots jerseys with random Twitter handles written on the back could, somehow, lead to problems?
Someone is getting fired.
http://www.tddaily.com/news/new-england-patriots-i-hate-? -tweet-jersey-photo/
Just when it seemed NFL public relations problems were kind of dying down, things got awkward, unfortunate and down-right disrespectful on social media for the New England Patriots. After an automated mishap, the storied NFL franchise’s twitter page gave a shout-out to its fans that helped the team become the first in the NFL with a million followers. Any fan that tweeted a special link would get a jersey with their twitter name on the back of the jersey. One such follower happened to be... @IHATENIGGERSS. To the teams credit the tweet was removed and followed up with an apology.
http://www.vibe.com/article/while-you-were-living-nfl-twitter-fails-charles-barkley-nba-beefs?utm_source=sc-fb&utm_medium=ref&utm_campaign=Sports
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Eh, white people just reminding us what it is, no matter how much they like watching us play sports.
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Smh damn shame
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The Patriots need more people.
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Heh. Those ? knew what they were doing.
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Nahhh Boston fans ain't racist. They just get a bad rap.
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I don't know about all the functions on twiiter, but it's likely they had some setting/written program that was made to automatically assign the name to the pic, and tweet the 1millionth follower.
The person who did this, probably knew it was set up like this, and spammed to be the one millionth follower on purpose.
In short, it's highly possible/probable someone with inside knowledge did this on purpose, ro it could be a coincidence. -
Yet these muthafuckas in the league wanna make a big deal out of domestic abuse.
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I don't know about all the functions on twiiter, but it's likely they had some setting/written program that was made to automatically assign the name to the pic, and tweet the 1millionth follower.
The person who did this, probably knew it was set up like this, and spammed to be the one millionth follower on purpose.
In short, it's highly possible/probable someone with inside knowledge did this on purpose, ro it could be a coincidence.
They sent out a tweet to a million followers with a jersey and their name on the back not just this clown, if ànything twitter should apologize for not deleting that account -
Racist ? from Boston, color me shocked...
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Yea they got trolled, yall mufuckas never been to Boston yet want to call it racist. Every city in the US has some sort of racist history that they would want the masses to forget about.
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The top 10 voted most racist states are all in the south
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Rubato Garcia wrote: »
Sure the most racist cities reside in the most racist states.... -
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Here you go bruh, see if you can find Boston on this list
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Rubato Garcia wrote: »
Sure the most racist cities reside in the most racist states....
With that logic, Alaska should have the biggest cities since it's the biggest state. -
Yea they got trolled, yall mufuckas never been to Boston yet want to call it racist. Every city in the US has some sort of racist history that they would want the masses to forget about.
Been to to Boston plenty times. ? is racist as ? . The racism can be tasted in the water up there. -
Billy_Poncho wrote: »
Not talking about land mass, more so an intangible ignorant thought process. Southern cities are rampant with bigots who would die for their confederate flags. No surprise that these racist bigoted cities are found within these racist southern states -
Just because the south have racist cities doesn't mean Boston isn't racist
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Yea they got trolled, yall mufuckas never been to Boston yet want to call it racist. Every city in the US has some sort of racist history that they would want the masses to forget about.
Been to to Boston plenty times. ? is racist as ? . The racism can be tasted in the water up there.
What racist attacks have you been subjected too? -
Chi-Town Bully wrote: »Just because the south have racist cities doesn't mean Boston isn't racist
Racism is in the DNA of this country, it was built on that notion. Every town, city and state has a racist history or deals with racial division. But to say Boston is the most racist city in this current day is plain ignorance. -
Billy_Poncho wrote: »
Not talking about land mass, more so an intangible ignorant thought process. Southern cities are rampant with bigots who would die for their confederate flags. No surprise that these racist bigoted cities are found within these racist southern states
Dude, I've lived in both North and South USA, has bad the history the south has, now that I'm older, I realized the North is more heavily racist than the South in a lot of areas. Boston is one of the most racist cities up north, it's an heavily Irish town, so that ? to be expected.
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And what a coincidence that this ? is coming from an organization based on people that actually oppressed people of color.
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Billy_Poncho wrote: »
Not talking about land mass, more so an intangible ignorant thought process. Southern cities are rampant with bigots who would die for their confederate flags. No surprise that these racist bigoted cities are found within these racist southern states
Dude, I've lived in both North and South USA, has bad the history the south has, now that I'm older, I realized the North is more heavily racist than the South in a lot of areas. Boston is one of the most racist cities up north, it's an heavily Irish town, so that ? to be expected.
So going by personal experiences I never been called a ? until I moved down to the southern region of the US. Never seen confederate flags displayed on the porch and windows of homes until I visited Athens. We are talking perspectives at this point. -
http://deadspin.com/5942197/the-five-most-racist-cities-in-america1. Birmingham. I have never been to Birmingham, but I knew I needed a Southern representative, and that the Southern representative would probably deserve to top this list. I verified Birmingham with Spencer Hall. He said, "We're talking about operant racism? So…Birmingham." Birmingham it is.
2. Boston. Of course, Boston has to be near the top of this list. I actually knew a handful of people from Quincy, Mass. One of them referred to black people as "colored" people. And it wasn't an innocent thing. I think he genuinely liked how it sounded when he said it.
3. Phoenix. Lots of old people in Phoenix. Old people are crazy racist. And not only are old people racist, but old people have ACQUIRED RACISM. They may not start out life racist. They don't even have to have racist parents. But then, one day, they get rear-ended by an Asian lady in the parking lot and now they hate ALL Asians. Acquired racism is the most dangerous racism of all, because those are people who believe they have facts backing up their prejudices. Also, gun nuts and bikers are here.
I also wanted to include Los Angeles on this list because LA has the whole immigrant issue, along with ? skatepark kids who love to casually drop the N-bomb because they think it sounds cool. Those N-bombs that Quentin Tarantino personally drops in Pulp Fiction are the perfect example. There really are racist little ? like that in LA.
4. New York. This counts the entire metropolitan area, which means you have a healthy combination of Upper East Side socialites who fear minorities and the obvious goomba Sal's Famous Pizzeria worker faction. Two kinds of racism for your dollar.
5. Cincinnati. Like Geoff said, riots.
