Chicago Cubs fan flashes white power symbol behind Doug Glanville

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Chicago Cubs Fan Flashes “White Power” Symbol Near Black Reporter

The Chicago Cubs have opened an investigation into a fan who flashed a “white power” symbol behind Black NBC sports announcer Doug Glanville on live television last night.

As outrage about the incident grew, the organization had no choice but to respond, especially considering the long history of racism in the MLB.

https://twitter.com/MLBastian/status/1126003294198009858

For those who are not aware, here’s a bit of history about the nefarious hand gesture:

The “okay” hand gesture as a symbol of white intolerance apparently started as a joke by trolls on the 4chan message board in early 2017, as The Washington Post’s Eli Rosenberg and Abby Ohlheiser reported. The idea, according to message boards uncovered by BuzzFeed News, was to trigger liberals and trick the media by pretending the widely used hand signal had a secret racist meaning.

“The point of the stunt would be to get liberals wound up, so they can then claim that liberals are just imagining things,” noted Salon writer Amanda Marcotte in September. “That was what the OK symbol was literally invented to do: Both serve at a white supremacist symbol and also one that is just ordinary-enough looking that when liberals expressed outrage, the white supremacist could play the victim of liberal hysteria.”

The “trick” loses it’s deceptive nature when you flash it behind a Black man. It’s pretty obvious that there is malicious intent.

Hopefully the Cubs figure it out because nah. HELL nah. Nope.