The Deleted Offensive Golf Channel Martin Luther King Dream Tweet and Replies
For those of you who donât know or care yesterday was the anniversary of Martin Luther Kingâs "I have a dreamâ speech. Itâs a day when the people of America, already so sensitive about absolutely everything race related, are on heightened alert.
So when the GolfChannel sent out one of those bulk corporate tweets asking "whatâs you golf dream," a veritable shit storm ensued.
After a barrage of replies from horrified Americans, the GolfChannel was forced to delete the tweet and publish an apology.
For those of us not living in America itâs hard to find any offence in the tweet, but in the States, race relations are a very touchy subject. To put it in context itâs like the GolfChannel tweeting âwhatâs your favourite gasâ after hearing about a chemical warfare on a village in Syria.
They didnât, but itâs not good.
Hereâs some captures of the tweet and some of the âhorrifiedâ responses.
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