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Nick Cannon has finally decided to come down from his anti-semitic hill just in time enough to apologize for his actions. In case you’ve been living under a rock this week, he made a series of anti-semitic remarks on his podcast which all seemed to have been pre-planned considering he had Professor Griff on who was kicked out of Public Enemy in the 80s for anti-semitic remarks of his own. When the backlash first came and he was asked to apologize, he said he invited more speech and welcomed anyone on his show to correct him if he was wrong. Well Viacom decided to do the correcting and fired him. It is now a day later and it seems that was the inspiration he needed to actually apologize this time.
“First and foremost I extend my deepest and most sincere apologies to my Jewish sisters and brothers for the hurtful and divisive words that came out of my mouth during my interview with Richard Griffin,” he wrote. “They reinforced the worst stereotypes of a proud and magnificent people and I feel ashamed of the uninformed and naive place that these words came from. The video of this interview has since been removed.”
On the podcast they spoke about the wickedness of white people, their lack of empathy, how blacks are the real semites and therefore couldn’t be anti-semitic and other things we’re not going to get into. I do have to admit that I was surprised at the amount of support he’s received. Nearly every response I’ve received about this personally has been in support of him and the same goes for other black celebrities. The common theme appears to be more of support of him and the ability to make a mistake than just firing him. As for the support of him, anti-semitism isn’t just third rail politics, that’s an automatic smiting by God. But then again it’s 2020 and since the world seems to be ending, what is there to lose in supporting controversy these days?
So far Diddy has offered him to come and make Revolt TV his home saying they’re 100% black owned so he didn’t have anything to worry about. Fox has decided to stand behind him as the host of Masked Singer, so he still has that job. One person who had tepid support of him was Dwyane Wade. He tweeted support for him, deleted it and then wrote what looked like a publicist aided statement. The first post was “We are with you. Keep leading.”
Wade’s second statement was a little lengthier saying, “I want to clarify my now deleted tweet,” Wade wrote in the first apology. “I was not supporting or condoning what Nick Cannon specifically said, but I had expressed my support of him owning the content and brand he helped create.” He went on to say, “I was too quick to respond without being fully informed about his hurtful anti-Semitic remarks. As you all know I have ZERO tolerance for any hate speech!” Hey, it’s 2020. He tried. You’ve got to watch out for that cancellation boomerang.
Cannon also revealed that members of the Jewish community have reached out to him offering help as well and that he’s had several conversations over the past few days with them. It isn’t clear as to whether Viacom, which Nick Cannon has been with over 20 years that canned him over one show will reconsider now that he’s apologized, but he’s proven he has other options if they don’t. After all, Fox isn’t such a bad company to have in your corner at least.
I want to express my gratitude to the Rabbis, community leaders and institutions who reached out to me to help enlighten me, instead of chastising me.
— Nick Cannon (@NickCannon) July 16, 2020
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