Megyn Kelly Defends Blackface on Halloween: How Is It Racist?

[DonViejo]

‘That was okay when I was a kid,’ the NBC host lamented to her all-white panel.

Olivia Messer
10.23.18 11:59 AM ET

Megyn Kelly on Tuesday morning once again inspired outrage reminiscent of her Fox News days after seemingly defending the use of blackface on Halloween.

“But what is racist?” the host asked a panel that curiously did not include any black guests. “You truly do get in trouble if you are a white person who puts on blackface at Halloween or a black person who puts on white face.”

“That was okay when I was a kid, as long as you were dressing like a character,” Kelly lamented.

Kelly pointed to the backlash inspired by Real Housewives of New York star Countess Luann de Lesseps, who used blackface while dressing up as Diana Ross—and later apologized for the offensive costume.

“I don’t see how that is racist on Halloween,” said Kelly. But her all-white cast of panelists didn’t agree.

“I haven't seen it, but it sounds pretty racist to me,” remarked NBC News correspondent Jacob Soboroff.

Jenna Bush Hager, former first daughter and fellow NBC News correspondent, added: “Me too.”

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[TeamPooka]

1. NBC must be so proud

[Guppy]

2. No effin' way

was it ok. It was racist then and it is racist now.

[Docreed2003]

3. Says the lady believes Santa Claus is white.

[Guppy]

4. Jesus is white

[Docreed2003]

5. Oh, even better...I knew it was one of the two, lol

[uponit7771]

6. She doesn't even understand how disconnected racially she is

[rurallib]

7. I looked up her age and birthplace and I am thinking that it was not really acceptable

then and there - born in 1970 in Champaign, Illinois. So @1978- 1984 it was acceptable there?
I kind of doubt it.

[moondust]

10. Champaign is a university town.

So no, it would not have been acceptable there at least after the 60s if not before.

[SWBTATTReg]

8. A big segment of our population thinks this is racist, and so do I. What's the matter w/ ...

Kelly? She grow up underneath a troll bridge where the other scumbags live? Get real, lady.

[Solly Mack]

9. You can take a person out of Fox News but you can't take Fox News out of the person.

[mr_liberal]

11. She's right.

If you're wearing makeup to just try to look as much like a black celebrity or historical figure as you can that's ok. That can be done for a white celebrity or historical figure as well. She mentioned that.

Its when you do it and exaggerate features and act in a way that makes fun of someone because of their race or make fun of a whole race is when its blackface.

They are two different things. Its the difference between Al Jolson and Laurence Olivier wearing makeup to play Othello.

[4139]

13. In the early 1960's I remember girls dressing as Aunt Jemima

For Halloween

[Gothmog]

12. It is time for an advertiser boycott

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