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ViacomCBS Terminates Relationship With Nick Cannon Following White People Being Upset At Resurfaced Interview Where He Referred To Them As “Savages” & “Animals”

<p>Roommates&comma; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;nick-cannon-previews-new-documentary-about-dr-sebi&sol;">Nick Cannon<&sol;a> is currently a hot trending topic on Twitter after a video of his &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Cannon’s Class” podcast has surfaced where he refers to white people as &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;animals” and &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;savages” has gone viral&period; After several white people began calling for Nick’s cancellation&comma; he posted a lengthy statement on Facebook to explain his comments—and then ViacomCBS terminated their relationship with him&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>During an episode of his popular &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Cannon’s Class” podcast&comma; Nick Cannon made the following <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;variety&period;com&sol;2020&sol;tv&sol;news&sol;nick-cannon-dropped-viacomcbs-anti-semitic-comments-podcast-1234706748&sol;">comments<&sol;a> while having a discussion with former Public Enemy member Professor Griff&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The people that don&&num;8217&semi;t have &lbrack;melanin&rsqb; are a little less&period; They may not have had the compassion when they were sent to the mountains of Caucasus when they didn&&num;8217&semi;t have the power of the sun&period; The sun then started to deteriorate them so then&comma; they&&num;8217&semi;re acting out of fear&comma; they&&num;8217&semi;re acting out of low self-esteem&comma; they&&num;8217&semi;re acting out of a deficiency&period; So&comma; therefore&comma; the only way that they can act is evil&period; They have to rob&comma; steal&comma; rape&comma; kill in order to survive&period; So then&comma; these people that didn&&num;8217&semi;t have what we have &&num;8212&semi; and when I say we&comma; I speak of the melanated people &&num;8212&semi; they had to be savages&period; They had to be barbaric because they&&num;8217&semi;re in these Nordic mountains&period; They&&num;8217&semi;re acting as animals so they&&num;8217&semi;re the ones that are actually closer to animals&period; They&&num;8217&semi;re the ones that are actually the true savages&period;”<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><amp-instagram data-shortcode&equals;"CCo7Y5Rhx8W" layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"600" data-captioned><&sol;amp-instagram><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>A few hours later after he was at the top of the Twitter trending topics&comma; ViacomCBS released a statement confirming they had decided to terminate their very long relationship with him&period; You may recall that ViacomCBS owns MTV&comma; VH1&comma; BET and more&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Their statement read&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;ViacomCBS condemns bigotry of any kind and we categorically denounce all forms of anti-Semitism&period; We have spoken with Nick Cannon about an episode of his podcast &OpenCurlyQuote;Cannon’s Class’ on YouTube&comma; which promoted hateful speech and spread anti-Semitic conspiracy theories&period; While we support ongoing education and dialogue in the fight against bigotry&comma; we are deeply troubled that Nick has failed to acknowledge or apologize for perpetuating anti-Semitism&comma; and we are terminating our relationship with him&period; We are committed to doing better in our response to incidents of anti-Semitism&comma; racism&comma; and bigotry&period; ViacomCBS will have further announcements on our efforts to combat hate of all kinds&period;”<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><amp-instagram data-shortcode&equals;"CCpWm2vB-0B" layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"600" data-captioned><&sol;amp-instagram><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>As of right now&comma; 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