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 Everyone who rightfully condemned Cam Newton for his sexist remark to her, should also be condemning her for these old racist tweets. 
 
 They aren’t mutually exclusive, they are both really bad and people should be offended. 
 
 If you are up and arms about one and don’t care about the other it makes things very clear what you care about more. Racism and sexism are problems in our society and we don’t need athletes and reporters partaking in either. 
 
 Flip the pages for the racist tweets… 

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 Charlotte Observer reporter Jourdan Rodrigue apologized Thursday for tweets with racist overtones from four-plus years ago. One of the four since-deleted tweets contained a racial slur. 
 
 "I apologize for the offensive tweets from my Twitter account 4/5 years ago," Rodrigue said in a Twitter statement. "There is no excuse for these tweets and the sentiment behind them. I am deeply sorry and apologize." 
 
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 Rodrigue, the Carolina Panthers beat writer for the newspaper, was thrust in the national spotlight Wednesday after quarterback Cam Newton laughed at her and said it was "funny to hear a female talk about routes." Rodrigue was supported and Newton was widely criticized for the sexist remark — by the Panthers, the NFL, and the media. 
 
 On Thursday, yogurt maker Dannon cut ties with Newton. 
 
 In a May 2013 tweet, Rodrigue said, "The earth moves at 450+ mph that's 10 times triller than NASCAR Dale Earnhart's a (expletive) (racial slur)." 
 
 In other tweets from August 2013, Rodrigue said she was enjoying racist jokes from her father as they drove through Navajo country. 
 
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– Having now received an apology from Cam Newton, Charlotte Observer reporter Jourdan Rodrigue has had to issue one of her own. The reporter, who covers the Carolina Panthers and was involved in what some called a sexist exchange with the quarterback during a press conference Wednesday, says she is "deeply sorry" after Black Sports Online discovered years-old racist tweets on her Twitter account. A racial slur was used in one May 2013 tweet, while two others described her enjoying racist jokes, reports USA Today. "My dad is being super racist as we pass through Navajo land," she tweeted in December 2012. Then, the following August, "He's the best. Racist jokes the whole drive home," the tweets read. The Charlotte Observer reports the tweets were written when Rodrigue, 25, was in college. Rodrigue apologized in a Twitter statement Thursday, noting, "There is no excuse for these tweets and the sentiment behind them." Also Thursday, Newton apologized for his comments to Rodrigue, who had asked Newton about football routes only to have him tell her, "It's funny to hear a female talk about routes." In a video posted to Twitter Thursday, Newton said, "I understand that my word choice was extremely degrading and disrespectful to women. To be honest, that was not my intentions. If you are a person who took offense to what I said, I sincerely apologize to you." Newton lost his yogurt gig over the comments.