For those of you who missed it, The Colbert Report posted a satirical tweet about Dan Snyder, owner of the Washington RedSkins. The tweet used satirical racism about Asians to draw a parallel to Snyder's reactions to criticism of his team's name.
The twitter frenzy was started with the help of Suey Park, an activist who has a history of challenging racist sports team names. She got a lot of attention, and was asked to be interviewed on a live feed by HuffPost Live by host Josh Zepps.
See the interview: (Skip to 32:00 to see the interview)
HuffPost Live Josh Zepps and Suey Park
See some of the media's response:
The Washington Post
Mediaite
......Anyway, I went to Twitter to find Kamau Bell tweeted about the interview as well:
I decided to throw in my two cents on Twitter on how I felt Park's reaction ism to every little thing Zepps' says turns into her racist opinion about white people. I was surprised Josh Zepps responded directly to my tweet:
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