Anchor apologizes for gorilla remarks

Credit to Author: ASSOCIATED PRESS| Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2019 16:03:21 +0000

A morning TV anchor in Oklahoma apologized a day after likening her black cohost to a gorilla. Alex Housden said a gorilla at the Oklahoma City Zoo “kind of looks like you” to her colleague, Jason Hackett, at the end of a feature on KOCO-TV, a CNN affiliate, on Thursday. She addressed what she called hurtful comments on the next day’s show. Voicing racist remarks is common in many countries either off or on camera specially if the show has multirace hosts, analysts said.

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