This one's almost too rich for words.
Basically, young man at college football game holds up sign asking for more beer money and including his Venmo account name. Sign gets shown on ESPN's gameday, and whaddya know, a day or so later young man discovers that there's $600 in the account. So he does the right thing, he decides to donate the money to the local children's hospital. His mom mentions this on Facebook and the whole thing explodes. Venmo and Busch (he mentioned Busch Light on his sign) offered to match whatever the kid raised, and before you know it, he's on Good Morning America, CNN, Fox and Friends, NBC, etc. Raises over $1 million for the children's hospital.
Kind of a local hero, right? Well, a reporter named Aaron Calvin for the Des Moines Register, decides to do some investigoogling, and discovers, shock of shock that the young man had said some racist things as a teenager (16). I can't seem to copy from the site, but it says that he tweeted two racist jokes, one comparing black mothers to gorillas and another "making light of black people killed in the holocaust (sic)."
Obviously objectionable, but seriously if you have to go back eight years to a sophomore in high school's account to find something stupid and objectionable, I'm already thinking the kid must be a saint. But as usual, it gets better. Because of course the reporter had a long-time twitter account, some rather embarrassing tweets of his were discovered:
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Basically, young man at college football game holds up sign asking for more beer money and including his Venmo account name. Sign gets shown on ESPN's gameday, and whaddya know, a day or so later young man discovers that there's $600 in the account. So he does the right thing, he decides to donate the money to the local children's hospital. His mom mentions this on Facebook and the whole thing explodes. Venmo and Busch (he mentioned Busch Light on his sign) offered to match whatever the kid raised, and before you know it, he's on Good Morning America, CNN, Fox and Friends, NBC, etc. Raises over $1 million for the children's hospital.
Kind of a local hero, right? Well, a reporter named Aaron Calvin for the Des Moines Register, decides to do some investigoogling, and discovers, shock of shock that the young man had said some racist things as a teenager (16). I can't seem to copy from the site, but it says that he tweeted two racist jokes, one comparing black mothers to gorillas and another "making light of black people killed in the holocaust (sic)."
Obviously objectionable, but seriously if you have to go back eight years to a sophomore in high school's account to find something stupid and objectionable, I'm already thinking the kid must be a saint. But as usual, it gets better. Because of course the reporter had a long-time twitter account, some rather embarrassing tweets of his were discovered:
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Between 2010 and 2013, Calvin published tweets that used a racist slur for black people, made light of abusing women, used the word “gay” as a pejorative and mocked the legalization of same-sex marriage by saying he was “totally going to marry a horse.” The Register’s statement on Twitter was soon flooded with images of the reporter’s offensive comments. |
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