white folks and black jokes: Bloomberg Politics deletes Obama fried chicken tweet

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Twitter users noticed almost immediately when a photograph tweeted by the news organization seemed somehow inappropriate.

The picture accompanied a link to a story about White House chef Sam Kass. But the image paired Barack Obama, sporting casual clothing and a toothy smile, with an image of barbecued chicken wings.

Bloomberg quickly deleted the tweet and executive editor Mike Nizza tweeted a brief explanation, but nothing further has been said about the chicken wing tweet from the @bpolitics account. [MORE]