Under rules set down by Bloomberg's Ben Penn, this 'watermelon' tweet of his is deemed 100% racist

Greg P. | 2:13 PM on September 03, 2019

Is this photo of MLB star Adam Jones eating a Popeye’s fried chicken cake racist?

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Well, according to Bloomberg’s Benjamin Penn, it’s not but only because it “needed watermelon as one of the sides”:

Is this racist? Can someone give me a ruling on this? http://t.co/nnTI24t9pL

— Gleichmonster (@Gleichmonster) August 1, 2013

@Gleichmonster No. Needed watermelon as one of the sides to pass my threshold.

— Ben Penn (@benjaminpenn) August 1, 2013

Wow. We would originally have chalked that tweet up to sarcasm or youthful indiscretion, but these new rules find that this is 100% racist:

Foot, meet mouth. You’re done.

— Drew Powers, CFP® (@PowersByDrew) September 3, 2019

Your move, Bloomberg:

Amazing that @Bloomberg would willingly employ someone so openly bigoted as @benjaminpenn.

— Dan Goldwasser (@dgoldwas) September 3, 2019

This will happen any minute now:

I give him less than 5 minutes before he full blown "locks"/"protects" his tweets and goes private.

— Cory M (@IToldYouMonsoon) September 3, 2019

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