Nick Cannon found himself embroiled in controversy this week after an interview with Professor Griff of Public Enemy fame went viral.
During their conversation, the television/radio personality made several comments perceived to be anti-Semitic and anti-White. Consequently, ViacomCBS severed its decades-long relationship with the now former Wild ‘N Out host. But it looks like his position with the FOX network is safe.
On Wednesday night (July 15), FOX announced Cannon, who hosts the wildly popular series The Masked Singer, will keep his job.
“When we were made aware of Nick Cannon’s interview with Richard Griffin on YouTube, we immediately began a dialogue with Nick,” the network tweeted. “He is clear and remorseful that his words were wrong and lacked both understanding and context, and inadvertently promoted hate. “This was important for us to observe. Nick has sincerely apologized, and quickly taken steps to educate himself and make amends.
“On that basis and given a belief that this moment calls for dialogue, we will move forward with Nick and help him advance this important conversation, broadly. FOX condemns all forms of hate directed toward any community and we will combat bigotry of any kind.”
FOX’s decision comes shortly after Cannon issued a second apology for his remarks and the original interview with Griff was scrubbed from his YouTube channel.
“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 tweeted Wednesday night. “They reinforced the worst stereotypes of a proud and magnificent people and I feel ashamed of the uninformed and naïve place that these words came from. The video of this interview has since been removed.”
Cannon went on to thank those from the Jewish community who attempted to explain why his comments were harmful.
“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,” he said. “I want to assure my Jewish friends, new and old, that this is only the beginning of my education — I am committed to deeper connections, more profound learning and strengthening the bond between our two cultures today and every day going forward.”
Nick Cannon Axed By ViacomCBS For Anti-Semitic Comments During Professor Griff Interview
FOX is being condemned on Twitter for its decision to keep Cannon on the show. Some feel a “racist” shouldn’t be allowed to keep his job, while others claim if Cannon was white, he would’ve been fired.
In the wake of ViacomCBS’ firing, Cannon has demanded ownership of Wild ‘N Out and Diddy has offered to air the show on his network REVOLT TV.
White ppl just pay attention to whats happening and who gets away with racism. Start learning to mind your business and focus on your family. Not everything needs your attention from here on out. You see how people feel about you even if you protest, march and join groups trying to end racism..itll turn into a 1 way street.
Dog the bounty Hunter is racist and his show still airs on a channel owned by Viacom. So what’s your point.
Dog had an interview on his show where he said all Jooish and white people (or a different group) are savages? Please show me a link to that. He used the N word in a private phone call with his son that was recorded. A BIT DIFFERENT WOULDN’T YOU SAY! You are allowed to be a racist piece of shit, dumb dumb. You shouldn’t be allowed to get on a Platform that is distributed by a company that you don’t own and say a bunch or anti-Semitic, racist shit. Then instead of apologizing, he doubles down? SMH. EVERY project this moron ever worked in was produced by a multi ethnic staff for sure, I’m betting the majority of people who made the decisions that got him paid were white Joos. He a hypocrite to boot. You’re EXTREMELY slow.
Privately racist, publicly racist…all the same to me.
It IS the same. Most people don’t care WHAT you think as long as you keep that shit to yourself. Nick didn’t.
Keep baning my comments will you.
Your mother should of swallowed you
Nice response to the valid points presented. You’ll get that GED one day. Your break at Taco Bell is over. Get back to the fryer.
I did have a valid response, but this website blocked my response. Have fun. You insulted me first so it was deserved
But…I thought silence was violence?
Haha I don’t think I’ve ever read a comment dumber than this one on this site. We still got a long way to go before people start taking us black people seriously. Goddamn.
I don’t think you’re paying attention as much as you’re living your “truth.”
Another really dumb comment haha they just keep coming
Taking black ppl serious? Did you see how many hundreds of thousands if not millions of white ppl were protesting in your honor this summer? Some Black ppl are using this summer as an excuse to attack all white ppl even though the majority were on your side.
So it’s ok to. E racist towards Jooish and white people in 2020. Had he been a white man and said the same shit, it would be a wrap. Fuck this clown.
Let’s see Ryan Seacrest say some shit about black people. Let’s see how long it takes them to fire him. #MAGA This country is backwards. Probably because we let you clowns take over.
Bullshit. Fuck Nick Cannon. Fuck mainstream media.
I’m black and I think the things he said we’re racist. He should be fired.
Fucking thank you
Since when does the Regressive Left accept apologies? Oh wait, it was FOX
This situation basically communicates it’s okay to be racist. Not a good message to spread and one huge step backwards for the USA
The sad thing is that this anti-semitism will be used to detract and distract people from the true mission of Black Lives Matter. It’s extremely foolish and plain wrong for so many people involved with BLM to spew anti-semitic hate. As Kareem Abdul-Jabbar said in a recent article: “It’s so disheartening to see people from groups that have been violently marginalized do the same thing to others without realizing that perpetuating this kind of bad logic is what perpetuates racism.”
Shot out to Nick he just sent out some bs apology to keep the checks coming n but his 1st opinion wasn’t wrong at all
Would be interested to hear your take. Explain what you agree with
they need to fire him he crossed the line into being too controversial. he better prepare to get booed on the mask singer.
Nick shouldn’t have apologized like a cuck. what he said completely correct.
You’re a fucking idiot mate
Can you please elaborate ? Ppl keep calling others anti-Semitic without explaining what exactly was hateful. Instead ppl are shamed into silence like your doing here. So if you have the answers sir please explain
He said the Black people are the real Hebrews. That is incredibly offensive every person from the state of Israel, and everybody who is Hebrew. It’s a religion, anyone can convert to it. Converting to the religion of the Hebrews is a little more complex because they don’t just allow any idiot to convert. He also said that white men have less melanin and sore more prone savagery. Not only is that incredibly racist, it is a flat out lie. There’s no scientific evidence to prove any of that, it’s nation of Islam rhetoric which is basically hate speech, and has been proven to be scientifically wrong. The crime, disease and genocide rate in Africa through the years, and now is higher than the US or any European country. Ethiopia was the last country to abolish slavery. The first recorded incidents of slavery are the Egyptian Pharos enslaving the Hebrews. They built the pyramids and the Sphinx in slavery. So yes, he said some far out, weirdo lies about Joos and white people. I would say a high 90% of the people who green lighted his projects and helped create his wealth were white Joos. You must be daft buddy.
Eh I have to challenge what your saying. He said how can I be anti semetic. Semetic means Afro Asiatic. Let’s break the word down. Shem+ham =Shemhametic = semetic. Which means black and brown people. The Yoos in Israel are hypocritical because they treat the people of the faith from Ethiopia and the horn of Africa like shit. Even the sephardics were treated badly. Those people supposedly are their ancestors. Now we could go into the Khazarian conversion theory but that’s another debate. If the statement would of been clarified or the right language was used than that part could of been avoided. Nick slshoukd of choose his words wiselyor let the guest clarify. Now to address the less melanin statement. That should of been clarified more. Basically he was referencing the the work of a black psychologist. Also s book known as the iceman inheritance. He was explaining how whites being an ethnic minority act out of survival and that the environment they came from influenced their behavior. Africa may not be the perfect place but there are a lot of factors to that politically and environmentally. The same can be said for Europe. Ethiopia being the last to abolish slavery I need to research that. Hebrews were not enslaved in Kemet the Exodus story is a lie. Any archaeologist will tell you there is no evidence. Plus Yoos play both side of the fence . You have good and bad people just like anyone else. The z’s are the bad ones.
What I get from all this BS is that there is no freedom of speech in America.
I am white and for the most part we are racist we do hate blacks we always have our system is full of racism. Our police system is killing your kid’s on purpose
I hate joos. Not white people, but joos.