A group affiliated with the Drug Enforcement Administration apologized Monday for using the hashtag #blackhistorymonth in a tweet about a 1980 drug arrest.
The DEA Educational Foundation — a nonprofit organization that supports the Drug Enforcement Administration Museum in Arlington, Virginia — sent out the following tweet last week:
Leroy Butler, a significant heroin trafficker in New York City, was arrested in 1980 #BlackHistoryMonth #tbt pic.twitter.com/ez8FT5CKoW
— DEA Ed. Foundation (@DEAEdFoundation) February 26, 2015
The organization on Monday explained that the #blackhistorymonth tag was intended to refer to the unnamed black DEA agents pictured in the tweet, not the heroin trafficker. The organization also apologized for the “poor wording” of the initial message.
h/t Wonkblog
Well, this is all because of the divisiveness that Obama has brought. /s
Of course they meant to refer to the unnamed black agent. After all, that’s why the agent was left unnamed and focus was on the criminal – by identifying him and him only by name.
Well, the clothes the agents (plural) are wearing are classic late-70s/early-80s FUNKY!!
The photo is captioned “DEA Agents in front of Butler’s car.”
To be fair, the photo came from a DEA publication that identified all three in the photo as DEA agents. That lends credibility to the assertion that it was actually just bad wording.
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.