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The parents of a 9-year-old boy and diehard Kansas City Chiefs fan are suing the far-left sports rag Deadspin after the outlet slandered their child and then refused to retract the article.
The lawsuit follows a timeline in which Shannon and Raul Armenta gave the outlet ample time to retract the hateful words of senior writer Carron Phillips. Phillips omitted cold, hard facts when he deceptively posted a photo of their son in “blackface” when in fact the child was wearing war paint to support his team.
Phillips took a screenshot of a CBS Sports broadcast last November of Holden Armenta and wrongly accused him and his family of being racist.
Phillips neglected to show the other side of the boy’s face in the article, which would have made it clear he was wearing a headdress and his face was painted equal parts black and red.
“It takes a lot to disrespect two groups of people at once,” Phillips wrote in November after the Chiefs played the Las Vegas Raiders.
The far-left writer added, “But on Sunday afternoon in Las Vegas, a Kansas City Chiefs fan found a way to hate black people and the native americans at the same time.”
Phillips concluded the entire family was racist, and he faced an immediate backlash over the article, which sat for days without any corrections whatsoever.
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