This New York Times tweet about Michelle Obama really pissed off Twitter
After the New York Times Styles Twitter account linked out to a story about Michelle Obama's evolution as a political leader the tweet was deleted and new wording was used in a different tweet for the same story.
The original post read, "How @FLOTUS shed an angry black woman caricature and evolved into a political powerhouse." That tweet was deleted after many commented on the offensive language.
The NYT Styles account noted the change later Tuesday afternoon and re-wrote the post with this verbiage instead: "The Closer: Michelle Obama." A parenthetical thought read, "deleted earlier tweets for language that some found offensive."
Soon after the post with the "angry black woman caricature" went up, responses to the Styles tweet flooded Twitter. The story itself went online on Saturday with the headline: "The Closer: Michelle Obama" and sub-headline: "Dismissed early on by critics, the first lady has evolved into a powerful presence on the campaign trail."
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Sasha is a news writer at Mashable's San Francisco office. She's an SF native who went to UC Davis and later received her master's from the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. She's been reporting out of her hometown over the years at Bay City News (news wire), SFGate (the San Francisco Chronicle website), and even made it out of California to write for the Chicago Tribune. She's been described as a bookworm and a gym rat.
