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A Denver Post sports reporter is out of a job after tweeting that Takuma Sato, this year’s Indianapolis 500 winner, made him “uncomfortable.”
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Takuma Sato is the first Japanese racer to win the Indianapolis 500.
On Sunday, reporter Terry Frei wrote the following on Twitter: “Nothing specifically personal, but I am very uncomfortable with a Japanese driver winning the Indianapolis 500 during Memorial Day weekend.”
https://twitter.com/mariachiatt/status/868956632071507968
He’s since deleted it and apologized.
https://twitter.com/TFrei/status/868983753892401153
Frei also attempted to defend his objectively tasteless comment by posting a photograph of a longer apology and explanation.
He says his father’s Air Force service in World War II (in the 26th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron) and the deaths of his father’s friends on Okinawa were “part of his perspective,” one that forced him to make “a stupid reference during an emotional weekend to one of the nations we fought in World War II.”
https://twitter.com/TFrei/status/869036468429127680
The Denver Post has confirmed that he’s no longer an employee.
