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USA Today NFL Reporter Posted Tweets Calling Gay People ‘F*gs’ and Black People ‘N*gg*s’: Report
NFL Quarterback Tom Brady Is ‘A Lesbian’ Ok Tweeted
Lindsey Ok, a reporter for USA Today Sports network’s The Ravens Wire is under fire for posting homophobic and racist tweets, according to a report by Black Sports Online, also a USA Today Sports site.
Ok appears to have deleted the tweets, but BSO has screenshots.
“NFL actually stands for Niggas Fa Life,” a tweet from 2010 reportedly reads.
“Asians can’t drive. If you’re Asian, sorry. Not because you’re reading this, but because you can’t drive,” reads another, posted in 2011.
“So many fags… I mean, Flags, on pissburgh,” reads another from 2011.
“Swallow bitch, there’s people starving in Africa,” again, from 2011.
From 2012 there’s a tweet that reads: “I’m crying. ‘when aren’t you crying faggot’ (in slow motion).”
Another disturbing tweet from 2012, according to the BSO screenshot, reads: “Ben There Raped That.”
And another from 2012: “They remind me of an ice cream. Like chocolate mint With Sprinkles. Gay sprinkles.”
NCRM was able to find this tweet, in which she calls the NFL Patriots’ quarterback Tom Brady a “lesbian.”
Ok has not addressed any of these tweets yet.
Raw Story’s Martin Cizmar posted two that at the time of publication were still active. They now appear to be deleted.
At one point Monday evening Oks Twitter account was marked “protected,” but it has since been opened back up to the public.
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