Mercury News Apologizes For Headline Referring To Gold Medalist Simone Manuel Simply As “African American”

Mercury News had to apologize after tweeting out the headline “Olympics: Michael Phelps shares historic night with African-American.” At the very least, have some consistency. How about this one “White Dude is a pretty good swimmer”.

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"Michael Phelps wins gold and so does some black chick." Way to go, Merc! pic.twitter.com/pqWMCnDvGb

— Sean Keane (@seankeane) August 12, 2016

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