[From article]
An event called “Caucasian Heritage Night” to be put on by a Utah minor league baseball team, the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim-affiliated Orem Owlz, has been cancelled following severe social media backlash via #CaucasianHeritageNight, particularly in light of the recent admittedly racist shooting massacre in South Carolina.
The Orem Owlz baseball team in Utah scheduled Caucasian Heritage Night, or what some are calling a “white appreciation event,” long ago, before the racially-motivated South Carolina shootings, and that the Caucasian Heritage Night event was meant to be a “lighthearted” roast of Caucasian people, poking fun at white stereotypes, reports CNN,
But when the Orem Owlz put up a Caucasian Heritage Night post on Friday, promoting what they perceived to be an event mocking the behaviors and likes of white people, social media blew up, many, such as a woman calling herself Melanin Monroe, apparently offended and angered by the Caucasian Heritage Night event, thinking white people get enough attention as it is.
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The blowback against Caucasian Heritage Night caught many in the Orem Owlz organization off guard, the team emphasizing in a statement that the event was meant to poke fun at whites, and had no intention of being disrespectful in the wake of the South Carolina tragedy
http://www.inquisitr.com/2190668/caucasian-heritage-night-cancelled-following-social-media-outrage/
Posted: June 21, 2015
‘Caucasian Heritage Night’ Cancelled Following Social Media Outrage
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