If you tried Googling The White House on Google Maps, you might run into a offensive issue! MStars News has learned that the house that Barack Obama and his family live and work in, a.k.a. the President's house in Washington, DC, our nation's capitol, is being called The N*gga House on Google Maps!
According to The Washington Post, Google has some explaining to do after a search for the N-word leads to The White House in maps. The site claims that a reader revealed the issue after searching "'N***** king' - which contains a particularly offensive racial epithet for African Americans - Google Maps will point you to the White House."
It is also a clothing store in Taiwan. The urban dictionary claims that the store's owner "apparently [doesn't] know that the word 'nigger' is derogatory term. It is a store that sells hip hop clothing to the Chinese/Taiwanese people who want to look like black Americans which if you think about it is pretty scary."
A photo posted by Jibreel Muhammad (@theangeljibreel) on May 20, 2015 at 12:08am PDT
MStars News did it's own test and searched the word "N*gga," "N*gga House," and "N*ggerking" and sure enough The White House showed up dead in the middle of our search! "Some inappropriate results are surfacing in Google Maps that should not be, and we apologize for any offense this may have caused," a Google spokesperson responded on the issue. "Our teams are working to fix this issue quickly."
Google is in hot water and has some serious explaining to do. For some odd reason, when you type in "N***a house" into the search bar on google maps the address to the White House pops up - and people are pissed! Different variations of the term will also lead to the White House address such as, "House N***a" , "House N***er" , and "N***er House". When asked for a statement yesterday, Google claimed that they were terribly sorry for the mistake and that they would rectify the situation as soon as possible. However, people are even more angry that the problem has not yet been fixed! People are suspecting that Google was --- Read the rest at TheShadeRoom.com (link in bio) #whitehouse #googlemaps A photo posted by The Shade Room (@theshaderoominc) on May 20, 2015 at 2:10am PDT
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