USA Today has fired its “race and inclusion” editor for incorrectly stating on Twitter that it was an “angry white man” who opened fire and killed 10 people at a supermarket in Boulder, Colorado. “It’s always an angry white man. always,” Hemal Jhaveri wrote in her March 22 post, not long after the tragedy. The assertion was made in response to a post from Deadspin writer Emily Julia DiCaro, who wrote in the immediate aftermath of shootings at three massage parlors in the Atlanta area that she was “extremely tired of people’s lives depending on whether a white man with an AR-15 is having a good day or not.” Jhaveri hastily took down the post after the police identified the shooter as an immigrant from Syria named Ahmad al Aliwi Alissa. She said in a Medium post on March 26 that it was a “careless error of judgement.” She also …
USA Today ‘Race and Inclusion’ Editor Fired After Blaming ‘Angry White Man’ for Boulder Shooting
March 28, 2021
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