My Response to Attacks on Chiefs Fan in Headdress and Face Paint: Keep Your Race-Baiting to Yourself and Off of God's Kids
Deadspin writer Carron Phillips went after a nine-year-old boy at an NFL football game to push the increasingly popular racism narrative, which has become a pandemic in today’s culture. Remember when children were off limits? Those rules no longer apply when race-baiting is the idol folks worship and victimhood, their temple.
“It takes a lot to disrespect two groups of people at once. 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 wrote. He went on to state, “The image of a Chiefs fan in Black face wearing a Native headdress during a road game leads to so many unanswered questions” and used the following image as his featured photo:
Apparently, Phillips didn’t realize that most people have two sides of their face, and this young boy, Holden Armenta, is one of those people. The other side of his face, not shown in the image Phillips posted, had red paint on it. Why? Because this young boy is a Kansas City Chiefs fan, which explains the black and red paint as well as the headdress. Additionally, it later surfaced that the young boy is Native American.
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If Phillips were a serious character, he would have issued an apology upon learning that Holden was not in black face, as Jack Mac of Barstool Sports did when he learned the facts and acknowledged that jumping on this kid made him an “idiot.” His word, not mine. Phillips, as far as I have seen—and I’ve looked—has done no such thing. He did update his original article, however, but only to add that the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians, Holden’s own people, so to speak, issued a statement against “wearing regalia as part of a costume or participating in any other type of cultural appropriation.” What a coward Phillips is. Instead of repenting for picking on a child, he doubles down by getting backup for his ridiculous attack.
The problem here is not an NFL problem, not an upbringing problem, and is certainly not a Holden problem. The problem is people like Phillips. How is it that he did not see images of this boy’s full face? (And I’m assuming he did not find any as opposed to being intentionally deceptive.) He didn’t want to find such images. As soon as he saw the one-sided photo, which fit the narrative he wanted to push, he jumped on it—proud of himself, no doubt, for having uncovered yet another example of “racism.” Mind you, this was not one type of racism. This was racism against “two groups of people at once.” In the religion of race-baiting, that’s the equivalent of getting paid double time and earning extra props from fellow parishioners.
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People who have race issues themselves typically project that onto others. Phillips’ racial problems are his own problems, and casting them on a young man who is at a Kansas City Chiefs-Las Vegas Raiders game just to have a good time is despicable. Folks sure are working overtime to ruin children. Whether it’s drag queenery, body mutilation, pornography, revisionist history, or race-baiting, children have become targets to be corrupted. It’s time for these sick minds to get counseling and leave children alone. Let children be children. It’s the dream of many a boy to go to an NFL game and cheer for his favorite team. This nine-year-old got that opportunity, yet his memory of it is shadowed by attacks and accusations of racism. All he wanted to do was watch football, and this “journalist” thrust upon him the vilest label anyone could be called: racist. Those who want to worship skin color and conjure up race problems where they don’t exist and who live in misery with themselves are certainly entitled to do that—better yet, get help—but get your grime off of God’s children. Allow them to be the innocent individuals He created them to be, instead of making your problem their problem.