People are slamming CNN host Chris Cuomo for passing an insensitive comment and making fun of the black community with his tone-deaf comment. After facing heavy criticism on social media, Cuomo then took to Twitter to apologize and said he said he had made the comment ‘with all respect to reality and our need to fight this amplification of color animus.’
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CNN TV host Chris Cuomo is facing heavy criticism for saying ‘Black on the inside’.
Chris, 50 made the crude remark as a joke while talking to his CNN colleague Don Lemon. While speaking to him, Cuomo sang the theme song for the Good Times, a 1970s sitcom that centered around a Black family living in Chicago.
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Surprised and laughing with him, Lemon asked Cuomo how he knew these words to which he responds, ‘you know I’m Black on the inside’.
Cuomo's comment has gone viral and now the internet is calling him out for his tone-deaf comment.
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Writer and editor Aisha Staggers tweeted:
Black is not a costume, I don’t get to be white when I don’t feel like not dealing with racism or racist police or just regular bullsh*t black people deal with.
I can’t even hide at home because I can be killed there in my bed, so understand, there was nothing silly about this.
She continued:
It’s f*cking offensive. Black isn’t something you can just say you feel you are inside without having to deal with the racism that comes with being physically Black on the outside. This is cultural appropriation.
Another person tweeted:
Oh, Chris. Yikes. We are allies, we are not Black.
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Tweeting after his comments had been widely shared and discussed, Cuomo said he had made them ‘with all respect to reality and our need to fight this amplification of color animus’, adding:
There is no understanding what it is to live as a Black person in America if you are white but it is so important to listen. The majority must change racism.
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