Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s Incredibly Bizarre Tweet About ‘Forty Acres and a Mule’

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution‘s social media manager has some explaining to do.

On Wednesday afternoon, the newspaper’s official Twitter account blasted out a link to a story about a man winning the lottery, accompanied with a caption about “40 acres and a mule.”

According to reports, a man named Willie Lynch won the Georgia Lottery’s $1 million prize. The AJC article itself mentions nothing of Lynch’s race, yet the paper’s official Twitter account made a bizarre reference to the promises of post-slavery land redistribution in America:

In case you can’t read that, it says: “$1M GA Lottery winner Willie Lynch can get 40 acres and a whole lotta mules.”

The tweet was deleted shortly after its posting. AJC has yet to comment, but we will update if and when they do.

UPDATE: The newspaper apologized, via Twitter:

The AJC apologizes for & deeply regrets the tweet that was posted earlier today. We are working to address this situation internally.

— AJC (@ajc) October 23, 2013

[h/t Bryan Floyd]
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