There's this thing that's happening on the Internet, and it goes like this:
1. Someone will post something on social media, and because newspapers know that they can scrape Facebook, Twitter and Instagram for content (rather than paying reporters to actually do some investigative journalism) they will print the story.
2. Even though the person originally posting the story on social media might be a complete loon, it gets traction.
3. Once it's got traction, others will ask, "Is this racist". The vast majority of sane people will say, "No".
4. The effect of this is to encourage a narrative that suggests that just about everything that deemed racist isn't.
5. Real stories of racism are then ignored.
All the above happens every single day online. It's the new normal.