The Roots’ Questlove and NBC — the network that airs The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon! — have been named in a discrimination lawsuit by two of the show’s former cameramen, according to The Blast. Kurt Decker and Michael Cimino allege The Roots drummer targeted them for termination because they’re white. Questlove has denied the allegations and and finds them “disrespectful.”
“Questlove denies the ridiculous allegations made in this lawsuit,” Questlove’s rep told HipHopDX in a statement. “Racism is REAL and exists throughout the world, and for these gentlemen to claim victim is not only disrespectful to Questlove and his band mates, but to all that truly endure racism on a daily basis.”
The rep concluded, “As NBC already stated, the decisions made regarding these employees were made by NBC alone.”
As stated in the lawsuit, Decker and Cimino received an allegedly “unsolicited racist and misogynist text message from a Tonight Show stagehand” last June, a text The Roots’ African-American bassist Mark Kelley also received. Both Decker and Cimino claim they didn’t reply and instead, reported it to a Roots manager and an NBC technical production manager.
After Decker and Cimino were suspended, they claim Questlove “pressured NBC to fire all of the Caucasian employees involved in the incident,” and wanted Kelley off the hook.
Decker and Cimino are both seeking a million dollars each in damages.
It is almost impossible to actually be racist against white people. White people are just sensitive because they know that all of their privileges are disappearing.
Why is it impossible? Is white not a race?
In order for racism to exist, it must be backed by systemic oppression. Therefore, it is only possible to be racist toward minorities.
Not really, if you’re talking about racism systematically then you’re correct. However, while systematic racism is one of the main issues surrounding racism its not the only one. Individual acts of racism happen to people from every ethnicity. If a black person was to tell a white person “I don’t like you because you are a white person” that is an individual act of racism and therefore is still considered racism. This argument is honestly pointless because of how some people talk about individual acts of racism while others are referring to systematical oppression. The lack of communication rly makes this entire argument a waste of time; because if we were talking about individual acts of racism, then there is an outstanding amount of racism against white people, while if we’re talking about systematic racism, there is much less racism against white people (it’s still there but doesn’t compare to the struggle of African Americans).
Dude Again there is no such thing then sytematic racism anymore. Black People are the most systematic supported minority in the USA. Nobody gets more Hand outs and has it easier to make it. Like you can have the lowest average SAT Result and still make it to College. You can make it to College with an SAT Result while Asians, Whites or any Group in the US would fail to make it with the Same result.
100% false. A lil less Fox News.
Just treat everyone as individuals.
Not false actually. I graduated from a prestigious university recently and they had quotas to increase the attendance of mentally challenged people. Also, my graduating class was 80% female, 75% non-white, and 90% we’re prescription drug abusers. Sadly, this generation is being manipulated much worse than most people would ever really want to understand.
NO systemic oppression needed. And btw nobody is systemic oppressed these days anymore. Dictionary Racist: A person who shows or feels discrimination or prejudice against people of other races, or who believes that a particular race is superior to another
There’s only one race the human race .You’re confusing ethnicity with race .
Human is not a race. You confusing Race with Species
Lmao you really are stupid………
Actually firing someone for being white would be the definition of racism. Try again turd
Hahaha. Ive seen this opinion many times and its absolute bs! Grab a dictionary. You can absolutely be racist against white people. This is going to happen more and more because of the double standards against white males these days.
Michael Cimino’s Deer Hunter is one of my favorite films.
oh shit wrong comment lmao
White Privileged doesn’t exist
You know these allegations are false because supposedly “conscious” Questlove has no problem when his trump loving buddy jimmy fallon brings trump on the show all the time. This is a non story, but on another tip I don’t care to hear Questlove carrying like he “conscious” or “woke” when he and the roots didn’t quit the tonight show over jimmy fallon’s bromance and enablement of trump.
Seems like you don’t watch the show at all. JF rips trump every night.
How’s this news? Everybody know black people have been manipulated to hate white people by a certain tribe who claim to be semites.
Sell out
Quest is a talentless poseur, reliant on nepotism, who knows precisely what he’s done in the name of reparations. There are far too many fetid roots.