Well said, Mrbutters—we all need to call out the racists in all of our respective ethnic groups.

I think three things are true:

And who has the power to enact racist policies? All white people regardless of circumstance? My parents were poor. I’m in debt. I didn’t finish college. I’ve been arrested more than I’d like to say. I’ve been to the county jail. Am I perpetrating this massive conspiracy against my fellow humans? I think the first step…

To me if Joe Rogan can keep getting checks so can Nick Cannon, though both of them need to be slapped hard and dragged because their “I’m just asking questions” crap can be just as vile as Tucker Carlson’s. Also appreciate a comment regarding Ryan Seacrest - Cannon isn’t going to be the black Seacrest and secure that…

Sorry this is utter nonsense. He was not fired for saying things about white people. He was fired for anti-semitic statements. You are conflating the two and that makes no sense and I think you know this. There is literally no excuse to mitigate anti-Semitism that you know, caused the death of 6 million people. This…

“THE TRAITOR MUST BE RECYCLED.  SUMMON THE LIZARD COUNSEL IMMEDIATLY.”

Cannon used his platform to spread vicious and dangerous conspiracy theories about a religious/ethnic minority that has been historically persecuted, and that currently has been facing a fast rising level of hate crimes in the USA, and you barely mention that and instead say “thank you” to him?

Tucker Carlson’s head writer got outed for some extremely racist behavior online and Tucker got a vacation out of it. Kind of tells you all you need to know.

As a Jewish woman, it is so damn disheartening to see so many black people defending all this anti-semitism. These Jewish conspiracy theories are dangerous. If I can call out fellow Jews for their racism, why the hell can’t you call out anti-semitic black people? I don't care whether it's a klansman or a black…

I mean I can only wonder if Dr. Lee made a mistake in making him a P1 as a freshman. Nick hasn’t been right since then. Oh well I guess Viacom will have to make due with Teen Mom reruns and Jersey Shore episodes. 

“Whether you’re sitting in a barbershop or on the set of “Cannon’s Classroom,” you should speak up every single time that someone espouses racist, homophobic, sexist, transphobic or harmful beliefs. That is the only way to beat this stupid bullshit. We have to do it every single time.”

Somehow left antisemitic off that…

The irony in this article is that Michael Harriot, like Viacom, are focusing on different aspects of Cannon’s comments.

I remember reading the work of Dr Frances Cress Welsing (not Welding) and a bunch of us having great discussions around it at Medgar Evers College, Brooklyn. Lots of fascinating stuff in there with quite a bit straining credulity. I’m glad she engaged those ideas though. RIP.

Why did you leave out the anti-Semitic comments?

I believe that racism is real and pervasive. I have seen it with my own eyes (in northern New York, where I live). I think, given the atrocity that was slavery and the ongoing atrocity that is systemic racism (and it’s many penumbras), that to err on the side of vastly over-doing it when fighting against this stuff is…

“Yakub’s history—the insane theory that white people were created 6,000 years ago by an evil, cave-dwelling scientist.”

As a white person I’m going to break the Vow of White Silence and reveal the truth. You see, white people were actually created in an underwater facility by evil, space-dwelling scientist. This lab…

You left out the comments he made about Jews specifically, which were far more indefensible and more likely the actual reason why he got fired.

Believe it or not, but espousing crazy shit, believing crazy shit, and doing crazy shit because of that crazy shit predates YouTube. Crazy.

Mr. Harriot...right on so many levels, I just want to sincerely thank you for succinctly laying all of that out. For nearly 20 years I’ve been arguing essentially the same thing in Higher Ed (my specific bag is figuring out how to close equity gaps in academic outcomes, e.g. retention and graduation rates), and time…