(JNS)A prominent radio co-host came to the defense of actor, rapper, director and TV host Nick Cannon, claiming that Cannon was ousted from ViacomCBS because Jews “have the power.”
“Listen, Nick is my guy. I hate it had to be him, but that’s what you can do when you have the power,” said “The Breakfast Club” co-host Charlamagne Tha God during Wednesday’s broadcast of the show. “And if there’s one thing Jewish people have showed us, it’s they have the power. I can’t wait until the day black people are able to fire people for saying things about us that we deem racist. We can barely get cops fired for actually killing us!”
ViacomCBS announced on Tuesday that it fired Cannon for making anti-Semitic remarks in the June 30 episode of his YouTube podcast, “Cannon’s Class,” with Richard Griffin, a member of the hip-hop group Public Enemy until the late 1980s. He has since apologized and the podcast has been deleted from YouTube for violating the website’s terms of services.
In it, Cannon praised Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, who has an extensive history of making anti-Jewish remarks, saying that “every time I’ve heard him speak, it’s positive, it’s powerful, it’s uplifting … for whatever reason, he’s been demonized.” In his apology, Cannon did not mention his praise of Farrakhan.
