MSNBC host Chris Hayes has inadvertently baffled the web after Twitter customers dug up an previous tweet, posted earlier than Barack Obama’s 2009 inauguration, wherein he stated “a grasp race” of black folks was “taking on” Washington.
“Washington has been taken over by a grasp race of gorgeous black folks. I want they’d all keep,” Hayes bizarrely opined on January 18. It was simply two days earlier than Obama was sworn in because the US’s first African-American president.
Washington has been taken over by a grasp race of gorgeous black folks. I want they’d all keep.
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) January 18, 2009
The liberal commenter’s phrases had been seemingly meant affectionately towards the Obamas, however after discovering the decade-old tweet on Tuesday, nobody appeared to know fairly what to make of it.
Some urged the MSNBC host to both delete it or “elaborate” on what he meant.
Some took subject with Hayes jokingly endorsing some sort of anti-white racism, whereas others speculated that he might need been “overcompensating” for his personal racism.
Ignore the haters Chris, their cranium form precludes them from behaving rationally
— Postin’ Bean Structure (@McLeemz) November 24, 2020
that is the sort of tweet a white particular person writes when he is attempting to overcompensate for having had very racist ideas
— circus clown (@ohsoverytired1) November 24, 2020
A couple of additionally drew comparisons with the disturbing 2017 thriller ‘Get Out’ which satirized white liberals disingenuously fawning over Obama and African Individuals after which later transplanting their brains into different folks’s our bodies.
Others simply thought the entire thing was nothing however “cringe.”
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