The parents of a nine-year-old Kansas City Chiefs fan have sued the leftist sports blog Deadspin over an article that accused the boy of wearing blackface and hating Native Americans for wearing a headdress—despite the boy being Native American and wearing black and red to support his team.
After a TV broadcast of a Chiefs game showed the boy wearing his face painted half in red and half in black, Deadspin and its senior writer Carron Phillips used a screenshot that isolated a frame where only the black was visible in order to “maliciously and wantonly attack a nine-year-old boy and his parents for Phillips’ own race-drenched political agenda,” the defamation lawsuit, filed Tuesday in Delaware state court, said.
The article was titled “The NFL needs to speak out against the Kansas City Chiefs fan in Black face, Native headdress,” and claimed that the child had “found a…
