In this latest episode of Rupert Murdoch ignites Twitter in 140 characters or less, the News Corp chairman–an Australian-born white man, lest anybody was unclear on that–took it upon himself to discern and bestow the mantle of blackness upon the political class.
It all started with this tweet:
Ben and Candy Carson terrific. What about a real black President who can properly address the racial divide? And much else.
— Rupert Murdoch (@rupertmurdoch) October 8, 2015
And most certainly didn’t end with an apology offered the next morning in response to the very public pushback he apparently could not foretell.
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