Casino Website in Ebony Kenney Racism Row
5 years ago01 Mar
The Thirst Lounge favourite Ebony Kenney has expressed her disgust at an article that names her âCoal black Kenneyâ â the popular pro streamer using the hashtags #racism and #BlackTwitter to highlight the offensive renaming by âjournalistâ Alicia Schreiner.
The racist phrasing is part of a very strangely-written piece on GoldenCasinoNews.com aimed at Bill Perkins and his Thirst Lounge streaming team, with Schreiner â who may or may not even exist â describing how it came about and where it is headed following their recently-announced partnership with partypoker.
The âCoal blackâ replacement wording for âEbonyâ has seen several Twitter fans and followers of the black female poker pro stating it is most likely a translation error â although from what language and why, and how it wasnât noticed by the writer or an editor, is very worrying.
Fellow Thirst Lounge streamer Cat âcatrificâ Valdes has had her name changed to âFeline Valdesâ, lending weight to the âmistranslation theoryâ, but with the rest of the article written in equal parts vernacular and gibberish, itâs almost impossible to state for sure.
Others replying to Kenney are taking the article at face value â expressing their support for the pro facing a possibly racist descriptionâŚ
Alicia Schreiner is named on the GoldenCasinoNews.com website as âour senior journalistâ, her poker credentials noticeable by their absence, instead described as âPlaying and knowing almost all pokies [slot machines] in Las VegasâŚâ.
The ridiculous âCoal black Kenneyâ description, whether deliberately racist or a stupid mistake, has certainly out a dampener on Kenneyâs spirits, just as she was finding her mojo with The Thirst LoungeâŚ
Kenney was also in the news this week for her decision to pull out of a documentary focusing on the Poker League of Nations (PLON) stating:
âI cannot be a part of a project that involves someone who attacks/shames other womenâ, referring to PLONâs founder Lena Evans.
PokerTube have reached out to Alicia Schreiner and the website for comment.
Update: The editor named by the GoldenCasinoNews website, Dave Perry, may have been the victim of an âidentity theftâ - posting on Twitter that he knows nothing of the website, its content or how he came to be named as editor of it.
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