Sportswriter Makes Inadvertent Ku Klux Klan Reference
A Sunday morning breakfast table bobble by Philadelphia Daily News scoreboard editor Bob Vetrone Jr.
The philly.com blog post item headline now reads “Meet The Special K Phillies.” With, at the bottom, this note:
(We apologize for a headline that appeared earlier today on this blog post. The headline was changed quickly. The author’s mistake was careless, not malicious, but it is unacceptable nonetheless.)
Via Twitter, and per a summary by Billy Penn’s Dan Levy, item author Bob Vetrone Jr. stated that he posted the item from home Sunday morning and ‘never made the connection’ that the original headline, “Meet the KKK-illies,” could be perceived as offensive.
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