XXL Staffers Suspended Over Offensive Video
Not sure how anyone thought this was okay.
Some XXL staffers posted a video of rapper Too $hort advising young boys to sexually assault young girls. Naturally this stirred a firestorm that played out on Facebook and Twitter. A petition was started calling for the firing of the magazine’s editor-in-chief Vanessa Satten.
Satten has since apologized and released a statement airing her disappointment and saying that she didn’t know of the video’s contents before it was posted.
“I do not see all content before it goes live.
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