The Atlanta Journal-Constitution will have to answer some uncomfortable questions for an offensive tweet that it posted and then promptly deleted this morning. Caught by Poynter and Romenesko, the tweet announcing that Powder Springs, Ga., resident Willie Lynch won $1 million in the lottery winnings said that Lynch can now “get 40 acres and a whole lotta mules":
As Poynter explains, the phrase is a reference to Gen. William Sherman's post-Civil War rule that redistributed farmland and mules to freed slaves in Georgia.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has since apologized for the tweet and is "working to address this situation internally."
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