Twitter Bans GOP Contender For Racist Tweet Targeting Meghan Markle
Paul Nehlen, who is running against House Speaker Paul Ryan in Wisconsin's GOP primary, posted an image of Prince Harry's fiancée mocked up as a black Mesolithic Brit.
by Emily Sullivan
Feb 13, 2018
1 minute
Twitter has banned Paul Nehlen, a Republican challenging House Speaker Paul Ryan for a congressional seat, for a racist tweet targeting American actress Meghan Markle, the fiancĂŠe of Prince Harry.
This week, the Natural History Museum in London, a dark-skinned Mesolithic man believed to be one of the oldest modern humans in Britain. Nehlen posted the couple's official engagement photo with Cheddar Man's face superimposed on Markle's, who is biracial. He captioned the tweet, "Honey does this tie make my face look pale?"
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