WikiHow Wrongly Whitewashed Obama, Beyonce, and Jay Z

Thankfully WikiHow has already owned up to a very stupid move, but not before a lot of people saw it and complained.

The website that is known for giving how-to directions, posted an article called, “How to Become a Congressman.”

In the article there was a cartoon image of two men and a woman talking, all white. The problem? This cartoon was originally a real picture of Barack Obama speaking to Beyonce and Jay Z.

Beyonce fans were outraged and said, “When we saw the whitewashed image of Obama, Jay Z, and Beyoncé, we were disgusted and ashamed. It never should have been on WikiHow.”

WikiHow defended themselves and said, “We learned it was made 3 years ago by a team of illustrators who work as one. One person sketches, the other person colors.”

The website also said, “This doesn’t excuse the fact that we hosted a terrible image on WikiHow and we needed more diversity on that article, period.”