By Chioma Iruke
New CEO of Twitter, Parag Agrawal, has been roped in a racial controversy after trolls dug out his old tweets where he seems to suggest that “white people are racists.”
The right-wing trolls and some media outfits claimed to have unearthed a decade-old tweet which they said appeared to suggest he believed all white people are racist.
The tweet, published on October 26, 2010, when the Indian-American CEO had not even joined Twitter, read “If they are not gonna make a distinction between Muslims and extremists, then why should I distinguish between white people and racists?”
However, Agrawal clarified in the thread that he was only quoting the comedian Aasif Mandvi who had said something on these lines on the Daily Show, India Times reports.
The controversy comes amidst Twitter founder Jack Dorsey’s decision to step down from his position on Monday, giving the reins to Agrawal.
Prior to his recent appointment, Agrawal was the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at the company.
