By Eamonn Burke
ViacomCBS has fired TV personality Nick Cannon after decades of partnership following anti-Semitic remarks that he made on his podcast, Cannon Class. The episode, allegedly filmed last year, featured Professor Griff, ex-member of the rap group Public Enemy who had been kicked out in 1989 over anti-Semitic comments before rejoining. The two discussed Jewish dominance in media and that they have robbed the identity of the original Hebrew people, who are black.
“You can’t be anti-Semitic when we are the Semitic people,” he said on the show, agreeing with Professor Griff. He even went as far to suggest that “The people that don’t have [melanin] are a little less,” and that “They had to be savages” (referring to Jewish, white, and European people.
Cannon has faced ample backlash from the conversation, and he apologized afterward, asserting that “I do not condone hate speech nor the spread of hateful rhetoric,” in one of many tweets. However, when ViacomCBS cut ties with him, he defended himself in another lengthy Facebook post, saying “I will not be bullied, silenced, or continuously oppressed by any organization, group, or corporation.”
He condemned ViacomCBS and demanded full ownership of his MTV show Wild N’ Out Cannon will keep his stint as host of “The Masked Singer”, but a planned talk show will be on hold until next year, according to a statement from Lionsgate and Debmar Murray today. He also personally announced that he will take a hiatus from his LA radio show Nick Cannon Mornings for a period of personal reflection.
