EBONY Magazine Bizarrely Tweets That There’s Never Been a Black Senator Before

An EBONY Magazine tweet set heads scratching when it claimed that newly-elected California Senator Kamala Harris would be the first ever African-American Senator.

As you can see, the tweet is particularly confusing since the second sentence contradicts the first. Perhaps EBONY meant to say that Harris was the first African-American Senator from California?

Still, the tweet somehow stayed up, only to suddenly inspire mockery two days later.

@EBONYMag Fire your interns.

— (((Popehat))) (@Popehat) November 11, 2016

@EBONYMag Edward Brooke. Barack Obama. Tim Scott. Corey Booker. All African-American senators. How did this get thru editing?

— Matt Baxendell (@MattBaxendell) November 11, 2016

@EBONYMag This post is incredibly wrong and contradicts itself. You probably should delete and post again.

— Michael T McPhearson (@MTMcPhearson) November 9, 2016

@EBONYMag pic.twitter.com/vLI92zvLvB

— Connor (@Conman_404) November 11, 2016

Wait a second, @EBONYMag – what about Edward Brooke? https://t.co/ii3cfHekdg

— Brad Thor (@BradThor) November 11, 2016

You just unpersoned Edward Brooke, Carol Moseley Braun, Barack Obama (!), Cory Booker, and Tim Scott. https://t.co/CM5dLrHwEj

— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) November 11, 2016

Humiliating. https://t.co/MVLWwFAMaF

— Noah Rothman (@NoahCRothman) November 11, 2016

Somebody remind me… what did Obama do for a living before this? https://t.co/xHDJeadF8P

— Jim Treacher (@jtLOL) November 11, 2016

logically impossible https://t.co/l9VPJ4Zsop

— James Taranto (@jamestaranto) November 11, 2016

“Ebony magazine was unable to find @SenatorTimScott before posting this article, we apologize for any inconvenience” https://t.co/1TsBCGoQJW

— ConservativeBlackMan (@Thomasismyuncle) November 11, 2016

[Image via screengrab]

—

>>Follow Alex Griswold (@HashtagGriswold) on Twitter

New: The Mediaite One-Sheet "Newsletter of Newsletters"
Your daily summary and analysis of what the many, many media newsletters are saying and reporting. Subscribe now!