Simone Manuel has become the first African-American woman to win a gold medal in an individual Olympic swimming event.
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But for a Californian paper that wasn’t historic enough.
Mercury News, which brings the latest Silicon Valley and San Francisco Bay Area news, caused a backlash for their headline “Michael Phelps shares historic night with African-American”:
The tweet was later deleted, but not before started comparing the blunder to a Donald Trump’s boutade:
Others attempted to explain it by blaming the recent wave of layoff in the paper’s copy desk: …
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Californian news site apologises for 'insensitive' headline about Simone Manuel
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