Errin Haines has written a blatantly racist news story for the Associated Press (AP) that has been published throughout the web today. It is titled “Black NFL Fans Confront Welcome Quandary” and begins with “With two black coaches in the Super Bowl for the first time, the historic accomplishment presents a welcome dilemma for many black fans: For whom to root?”

The premise is that if your skin is black, then you will quite rightly favor others of the same skin color to win. She implies that if there was just one coach with black skin, then black skinned people would obviously rightly root for that coach. Of course, the further implication is that those without black skin are disenfranchised this year because their skin tone is not represented in the Super Bowl at all.

The article goes on: “We can’t lose,” said New York University history professor Jeffrey Sammons, who studies sports and race.

The fact that the real news story isn’t about the firing of this reporter (or at least controversy over her published words) is evidence that this culture doesn’t recognize what racism actually is. Furthermore, one would have to wonder what a uproar would have been caused if the article were about which white skinned coach white skinned people were going to root for.

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