{"id":25737,"date":"2014-06-18T13:18:53","date_gmt":"2014-06-18T13:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=25737"},"modified":"2014-06-18T13:21:03","modified_gmt":"2014-06-18T13:21:03","slug":"delta-airlines-apologises-for-racist-giraffe-gaffe-about-ghana-after-usa-beats-black-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=25737","title":{"rendered":"Delta Airlines apologises for &#8216;racist&#8217; giraffe gaffe about Ghana after USA beats Black Stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Delta Airlines is flying blind when it comes to geography.<\/p>\n<p>A congratulatory tweet celebrating the United States men\u2019s national soccer team&#8217;s over Ghana in the World Cup on Monday backfired when the African nation was represented with a picture of a giraffe.<\/p>\n<p>The long-necked animals do not live in Ghana, a country on the continent\u2019s western coast.<\/p>\n<p>To represent the United States, the Delta employee used a picture of the Statue of Liberty.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_25742\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25742\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/delta-pic.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-25742 \" alt=\"delta pic\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/delta-pic.jpg\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/delta-pic.jpg 620w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/delta-pic-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-25742\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The offensive Delta Airlines photo showing Ghana as giraffe-land<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Condemnation of the tweet was fast and furious, as Twitter users erupted, calling the uninformed message racist and ignorant.<\/p>\n<p>Delta quickly deleted the offending tweet and eventually an apology \u2014 the first of which contained a typo. Rather than previous, it read \u201cprecious\u201d when referring to the original tweet.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/delta-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-25739\" alt=\"delta-1\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/delta-1.jpg\" width=\"970\" height=\"657\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/delta-1.jpg 970w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/delta-1-300x203.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 970px) 100vw, 970px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For what it\u2019s worth, Delta does fly to Accra, the capital of Ghana.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>We&#39;re sorry for our choice of photo in our previous tweet. Best of luck to all teams.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Delta (@Delta) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Delta\/statuses\/478713660987441152\">June 17, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The United States prevailed, 2-1, after a late goal lifted the Americans in their first game in the 2014 World Cup.<br \/>\n_<\/p>\n<p>By: Gary Al-Smith\/citifmonline.com<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/garyalsmith\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @garyalsmith<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delta Airlines is flying blind when it comes to geography. A congratulatory tweet celebrating the United States men\u2019s national soccer team&#8217;s over Ghana in the World Cup on Monday backfired when the African nation was represented with a picture of a giraffe. The long-necked animals do not live in Ghana, a country on the continent\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":25747,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[121,117],"tags":[118,29,3,1437,7,1438],"class_list":["post-25737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-banking-and-finance","category-odd","tag-advertisers-association-of-ghana","tag-dr-mahamudu-bawumia","tag-ghana-news","tag-kwaben-agyapong","tag-togbe-afede-xiv","tag-vodacom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}