Updated: 23 Feb 2021, 2:42
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SEATTLE Mariners President and CEO Kevin Mather resigned on Monday after videos showed him ridiculing his foreign players and staffers’ English skills.
Mather, who made the remarks earlier in February in a call with a Rotary Club, resigned and left his post immediately, the Mariners announced in a statement.
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Seattle Mariners President and CEO Kevin Mather was with the team since 1996Credit: Getty Images - Getty
The resignation came after footage emerged over the weekend of Mather talking about Hisashi Iwakuma, a former Mariners pitcher who recently became part of the coaching staff.
“Wonderful human being; his English was terrible,” Mather said of Iwakuma, who is from Japan.
Updated: 23 Feb 2021, 6:22
THE Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on Monday canceled rapper Young Pharaoh’s speaking appearance after he tweeted that Jewish people are “thieving fake Jews.”
Young Pharaoh was scheduled to speak on Sunday during the conference which runs February 25 to 28 in Orlando, Florida, but his information has been removed from the website.
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Rapper Young Pharaoh complained that his speech cancelation was #CENSORSHIP AT ITS BEST Credit: Twitter
“We have just learned that someone we invited to CPAC has expressed reprehensible views that have no home with our conference or our organization,” CPAC tweeted on Monday.
“The individual will not be participating at our conference.”
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Black teen Rodney Reese ARRESTED for walking in middle of the road to avoid icy sidewalks during Texas storm
Updated: 23 Feb 2021, 4:42
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A BLACK high school student was arrested for walking in the middle of the road to avoid ice-covered sidewalks during the brutal Texas storm last week.
Rodney Reese, 18, was arrested at 10:45pm last Tuesday in Plano, Texas, and charged with being a pedestrian in the road way, which is a misdemeanor offense.
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Rodney Reese walked home in a T-shirtCredit: Plano Texas Police Department/Facebook
The Plano Police Department said it got a call about a black man wearing a short-sleeve T-shirt stumbling in the middle of the street, according to FOX4.
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