Parents of 9-year-old Holden Armenta have hired a law firm in the wake of a Deadspin hit piece that blasted their son as racist and insensitive for wearing facepaint and a Native American headdress.
The Aementa’s are asking that senior writer Carron Phillips issue a retraction for his story headlined “The NFL needs to speak out against the Kansas City Chiefs fan in Black face, Native headdress.”
“These articles, posts on X and photos about Holden and his parents must be retracted immediately,” the letter read.
“It is not enough to quietly remove a tweet from X or disable the article from Deadspin’s website. You must publish your retractions and issue an apology to my clients with the same prominence and fanfare with which you defamed them.”
From The New York Post:
The sports news site has come under fire for Phillips’ article, which featured a photo of Holden standing sideways — suggesting that he was wearing blackface with no mention of the red side.
Phillips, a former New York Daily News reporter, also slammed Holden’s Native American headdress and his “Tomahawk Chop” gesture, claiming the boy “found a way to hate Black people and Native Americans at the same time.”
“It takes a lot to disrespect two groups of people at once,” Phillips wrote in the article, which has since been tagged with a community note on X branding it “purposely deceiving.”
More over at The New York Post:
Parents of 9-year-old Chiefs fan who was accused of wearing blackface threaten to sue Deadspin https://t.co/ReVFCKAsy4 pic.twitter.com/YlCqIt6gse
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