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August 12, 2016 07:12 am PDT
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Important man's African-American colleague wins Olympic medal
At the Olympic games in Rio, The Mercury News reports that top U.S. swimmer "Michael Phelps shares historic night with African-American."
The subject of The Mercury News's unspecific racial disinterest is in fact Stanford junior Simone Manuel, who not only has a name and is neither Phelps' sister or wife, but is the gold medal winner in the 100-meter freestyle event.
The Mercury News later apologized for its "insensitve headline."
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