Rep. Mike Collins (R-GA) took to social media on Saturday to poke fun at an online outlet that recently accused a young boy of racism over a costume he was wearing at a Kansas City Chiefs game.
The Georgia representative posted a photoshopped image of him wearing red and black face paint, the color scheme of the Georgia Bulldogs football team, and tagged the online sports outlet Deadspin to say that he was excited for the game. Collins’s post comes a few days after the online outlet accused a young Kansas City Chiefs fan of wearing blackface, showing photos of the right side of his face in black paint; other photos were then shared online in the wake of the story, showing the boy was also wearing red face paint to support the Chiefs.
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“Ready to cheer on the Dawgs!” Collins wrote on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter.
The young Chiefs fan was also accused of practicing racism against Native Americans for wearing a Native American headdress to the game. However, the boy’s mother, Shannon Armenta, revealed online that her son is actually of Native American descent, as his grandfather, Raul Armenta, is a board member of the Chumash Tribe located in Santa Ynez in California.
The boy and his father, Bubba Armenta, were recently interviewed about the ordeal the family had been going through since the publishing of the article, with the father stating it had been “a pretty crazy couple of days.”
When asked if he would like an apology from the outlet over the article attacking his son, the father said it was “a little too late” for an apology, adding, “The damage is already done.”
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The young boy also shared a few thoughts on the situation, saying the ordeal has made him “a little nervous.” He added that a lot of his classmates “are getting excited” over the situation.
The article that accused the young fan of racism was published on Monday, Nov. 27. As of Sunday evening, the article is still online.
