CNN 'Congratulates' Indian Origin Girl Who Won The Prestigious Spelling Bee With Racist Remarks
12-year-old Ananya Vinay recently won the coveted 2017s National Spelling Bee contest and was invited to CNN. The anchor of the show didnt seem quite familiar with Ananyas knowledge and judged her on the basis of her Indian origin. She firmly believed that since shes an Indian origin kid her understandingwould be limited to words originated fromSanskrit.
There are many things in this world that are too agonising to learn and accept. And one of those is the thriving racism. Definitely not a new battle, racism has been a pressing and ignorant issue for ages.
While it has caused unfathomable harm to the victims, the oppressors have been busy spending their days in denial of its structural existence.
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Just to prove this, we have another example for you, where a 12-year-old kid faced mean racial remarks on international television.
12-year-old Ananya Vinay recently won the coveted 2017's National Spelling Bee contest and was invited to CNN.
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As part of a common tradition, the child prodigy was asked to spell 'covfefe'.
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But the anchor of the show didn't seem quite familiar with Ananya's knowledge and judged her on the basis of her Indian origin. She firmly believed that since she's an Indian origin kid, her understanding would be limited to words originated from Sanskrit.
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Minutes after this was aired on TV, stand-up comic Jeremy McLellan took it to Twitter to ask the very basic question. Why?
12-year-old Ananya Vinay won the National Spelling Bee so naturally CNN had her on to spell "covfefe" and say some racist stuff to her. pic.twitter.com/Qirb8CpBV9
¡ª Jeremy McLellan (@JeremyMcLellan) June 3, 2017
And it erupted with some highly befitting responses.
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Sanskrit? No she's used to using English, in which she can spell every word. https://t.co/Vr2lDZQhxg
¡ª Kumail Nanjiani (@kumailn) June 4, 2017
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Wow, that's so creepy. Fucking CNN. Institutional racism in your face. https://t.co/WmtSiAviVZ
¡ª Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 4, 2017
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She made it far worse when she said "Sanskrit or whatever"(basically, nobody here gives a fuck)
¡ª Varun Singh (@varun927) June 4, 2017
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Reinforcing the Sanskrit stereotype on a champion of a Indian origin, really?How progressive @CNN?Ever stepped outside the USA for #Covfefe?
¡ª Monica Jasuja (@jasuja) June 4, 2017
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@CNN this is shameful
¡ª Tanay Jaipuria (@tanayj) June 4, 2017
She correctly spelt 'marocain', a dress fabric made of silk or wool or both and took home $40,000 cash prize.
