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Don Lemon rips Megyn Kelly: “There’s never been a time in her life when blackface was ‘acceptable’


On CNN last night, anchor Don Lemon laid into NBC’s Megyn Kelly for her remarks on The Today Show yesterday about blackface being unacceptable for Halloween costumes.

Said Lemon: “Megyn is 47 years old. There has never been a time in her 47 years that blackface has been acceptable. There were all white people on that panel. There were no people of color there to say ‘hey, Megyn, not cool.’”

“This is what people of the larger culture don’t understand about racism and about privilege,” he added. “I don’t know of many black people who are trying to be white people for Halloween or dressing up as white people but I know a lot of people who do it as black people…I think people really need to educate themselves about this particular issue, and we need to realize in this culture that some people do have a privilege where they don’t have to think about it. It does not exist to them.”

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