Newsweek is under fire after tweeting a racist and stereotypical headline that has us over here like:
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The Newsweek tweet (with the tweet and article since being deleted), read: New “Bachelorette” Rachel Lindsay is proving black women actually do like men outside their race.
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Well, the Internet wasn’t having it and began dragging Newsweek (rightfully so) to filth.
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Not only was the headline bad, but so was the data.
Can you believe the article was actually written by a Black woman?
Racism or clickbait?
https://twitter.com/komiska_/status/867240527334432773
How did this happen?
Headline trouble? You can always ask Twitter.
https://twitter.com/zaynlove2016/status/867192497814089728
Newsweek has since apologized for the tweet and article.
Yes, y’all. We really are in 2017.
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Newsweek Is Writing Headlines That Perpetuate Stereotypes Of Black Women was originally published on hellobeautiful.com
