One of the big scuttlebutts on social media this past week was a sports writer from Deadspin going after a nine-year-old boy in attendance at Sunday’s Chiefs-Raiders game who wore a Native American headdress and face paint.
Carron Phillips (pictured), who used to write for my local paper (now known as Delaware Online), pulled a Principal Jeff Luna of San Diego’s Muirlands Middle School: In this case, he accused the young Chiefs fan of “disrespect[ing] two groups of people at once.”
That’d be Native Americans and black Americans.
“It was as if Jon Gruden’s emails had come to life,” wrote Phillips of the youth. “Why did the camera person give this fan the attention? Why did the producer allow that camera angle to be aired at all? Is that fan a kid/teenager or a young adult? Despite their age, who taught that person that what they were wearing was appropriate?”