jimnyc
10-24-2018, 11:59 AM
Now I truly have no love for Megyn, but I'm just tired of all the PC crap still, and forced apologies like this over bullshit. She was correct to begin with.
When I was a kid we had millions of costumes, between what I wore, brothers and sisters, and then all my friends and everyone else you see around town while out having some fun. No one was out there trying to be a racist or start trouble or have fights - it was simply about dressing up, having fun and getting loads of candy!
And my Dad was the coach of our football teams growing up, for both me and my brothers. So we had TONS of equipment, and same went for baseball too! Anyway, I think I dressed up as a football player more than once. And, folks may have tossed on an O.J. Simpson jersey with a little make up. Big effing deal. And if you say it, like I just did, and defend it - then one needs to apologize for it? BS.
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Megyn Kelly Makes Tearful On-Air Apology for Blackface Comments
An emotional Megyn Kelly began her program Wednesday morning by reading a prepared apology for her comments the previous day defending blackface Halloween costumes.
“I’m Megyn Kelly. And I want to begin with two words — I’m sorry,” the Megyn Kelly Today host said as she
fought back tears. “You may have heard that yesterday we had a discussion here about political correctness and Halloween costumes, and that conversation turned to whether it is ever okay for a person of one race to dress up as another — a black person making their face lighter or a white person making theirs darker… I defended the idea.”
She added: “I was wrong and I am sorry. One of the great parts of sitting in this chair each day is getting to discuss different points of view. Sometimes I talk and sometimes I listen, and yesterday I learned. I learned given the history of blackface being used in awful ways by racists in this country, it is not OK for that to be part of any costume, Halloween or otherwise.”
Kelly then repeated the statement she made a day earlier in an apology email sent to her NBC colleagues.
“I have never been a PC kind of person, but I do understand the value in being sensitive to our history, particularly on race and ethnicity,” she said Wednesday morning. “This past year has been so painful for many people of color. The country feels so divided. And I have no wish to add to that pain and offense.”
https://i.imgur.com/t27mzkU.png
Her comments came after she sparked criticism for defending Halloween costumes using blackface.
“But what is racist?” the journalist asked her guest panelists during Tuesday’s broadcast. “You truly do get in trouble if you are a white person who puts on blackface at Halloween or a black person who puts on whiteface for Halloween.”
“Back when I was a kid, that was OK, as long as you were dressing up as like a character,” she added.
Critics noted the lack of diversity on her show during the black face discussion, when Kelly was joined by guest panelists Jenna Bush Hager, NBC correspondent Jacob Soboroff and television personality Melissa Rivers.
A day later, the dynamic of the show changed as Kelly sat down for a discussion on race with African-American panelists Roland Martin and Amy Holmes, co-host of PBS’ In Principle.
Earlier in the day, Kelly’s NBC colleague, Al Roker, also addressed the controversy.
“The fact is, while she apologized to the staff, she owes a bigger apology to folks of color around the country because this is our history, going back to the 1830s,” Roker stated during a segment on the Today show.
On Tuesday evening, NBC Nightly News also ran a story on the controversy.
https://urbanhollywood411.com/2018/10/24/emotional-megyn-kelly-apologizes-again-for-blackface-comments/
When I was a kid we had millions of costumes, between what I wore, brothers and sisters, and then all my friends and everyone else you see around town while out having some fun. No one was out there trying to be a racist or start trouble or have fights - it was simply about dressing up, having fun and getting loads of candy!
And my Dad was the coach of our football teams growing up, for both me and my brothers. So we had TONS of equipment, and same went for baseball too! Anyway, I think I dressed up as a football player more than once. And, folks may have tossed on an O.J. Simpson jersey with a little make up. Big effing deal. And if you say it, like I just did, and defend it - then one needs to apologize for it? BS.
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Megyn Kelly Makes Tearful On-Air Apology for Blackface Comments
An emotional Megyn Kelly began her program Wednesday morning by reading a prepared apology for her comments the previous day defending blackface Halloween costumes.
“I’m Megyn Kelly. And I want to begin with two words — I’m sorry,” the Megyn Kelly Today host said as she
fought back tears. “You may have heard that yesterday we had a discussion here about political correctness and Halloween costumes, and that conversation turned to whether it is ever okay for a person of one race to dress up as another — a black person making their face lighter or a white person making theirs darker… I defended the idea.”
She added: “I was wrong and I am sorry. One of the great parts of sitting in this chair each day is getting to discuss different points of view. Sometimes I talk and sometimes I listen, and yesterday I learned. I learned given the history of blackface being used in awful ways by racists in this country, it is not OK for that to be part of any costume, Halloween or otherwise.”
Kelly then repeated the statement she made a day earlier in an apology email sent to her NBC colleagues.
“I have never been a PC kind of person, but I do understand the value in being sensitive to our history, particularly on race and ethnicity,” she said Wednesday morning. “This past year has been so painful for many people of color. The country feels so divided. And I have no wish to add to that pain and offense.”
https://i.imgur.com/t27mzkU.png
Her comments came after she sparked criticism for defending Halloween costumes using blackface.
“But what is racist?” the journalist asked her guest panelists during Tuesday’s broadcast. “You truly do get in trouble if you are a white person who puts on blackface at Halloween or a black person who puts on whiteface for Halloween.”
“Back when I was a kid, that was OK, as long as you were dressing up as like a character,” she added.
Critics noted the lack of diversity on her show during the black face discussion, when Kelly was joined by guest panelists Jenna Bush Hager, NBC correspondent Jacob Soboroff and television personality Melissa Rivers.
A day later, the dynamic of the show changed as Kelly sat down for a discussion on race with African-American panelists Roland Martin and Amy Holmes, co-host of PBS’ In Principle.
Earlier in the day, Kelly’s NBC colleague, Al Roker, also addressed the controversy.
“The fact is, while she apologized to the staff, she owes a bigger apology to folks of color around the country because this is our history, going back to the 1830s,” Roker stated during a segment on the Today show.
On Tuesday evening, NBC Nightly News also ran a story on the controversy.
https://urbanhollywood411.com/2018/10/24/emotional-megyn-kelly-apologizes-again-for-blackface-comments/