Posted on 10/04/2021 11:24:23 AM PDT by algore
Little Rock, Arkansas news station KATV suspended anchor Chris May and meteorologist Barry Brandt for wearing Afro-style wigs in mid-September
The station also fired longtime news director Nick Genty
The wigs were part of a 'return to the 70s' segment in which on-air talent was supposed to sport looks popular in the 1970s as temperatures dropped
It was heavily criticized by a local activist who said that a white person wearing an Afro wig is a perpetuation of 'systemic racism
In a statement, officials for KATV said they condemned the stunt
Sinclair Broadcast Group Vice President John Seabers also met with members of the National Association of Black Journalists in the aftermath to apologize
He said the company is now working to hire more staff members of color
'We apologize to all viewers who were rightfully offended by the segment, and we promise to enact and enforce new measures to prevent future incidents from occurring,' he said in a statement.
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Where’s the outrage over the Wayans Brothers dressing like white girls?
A fellow I knew back in school who was as white as me had a natural fro. He’d cut it back at the beginning of track season to cut down on wind resistance and then it would rapidly grow back over the course of a year,
I recall some black classmates being highly entertained by the sheer puffball aspect of his hair, which he did nothing to cause.
Oh c’mon, that’s pretty funny!
And there were plenty of white folks with afros in the 70s. No one thought a thing about it, or thought it somehow racist. Here’s Jeff Lynne of ELO and The Travelling Wilburys, for instance.
Irwin M. Fletcher was unavailable for comment.
Oh, brother
The Left has absolutely no sense of humor
They just seek to divide - everything is “racist” ( but really it’s not )
Back in the 70s I also rocked a pretty cool fro.
Wasn’t natural, it was permed. I was pretty fly for a white guy.
No sense of humor. Will not be tolerated.
Wait until the redo ‘Roots’ with matthew mcconahee(sp, but I don’t care anyway) as kunta kinte.
They will get whites so boxed in that they will become afraid of their own shadow.
Didn’t Kotter( Gabe Kaplan) have a fro?
Non-black people had curly hair in the 70s.
What’s wrong with that?
That is what I was thinking. There were a lot of white guys that had perms back in the 70’s and 80’s.
They should have wore white suits with a vest like Tony on Saturday Night Fever.
Let's just get it over with, new hires anywhere must be people of color or LGBTQ, or have at least a tat and a nose ring.
What about bleached straightened hair. Seems to me, that is racist.
When I had hair.....................
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