Kelly was fired from NBC’s ‘Today’ in 2018 after asking why blackface was wrong
for little over a year until her show was cancelled in October 2018 for comments made by the former“But what is racist?” Kelly asked the guests. “Because truly, you do get in trouble if you are a white person who puts on blackface at Halloween or a black person who puts on whiteface for Halloween. Back when I was a kid, that was okay as long as you were dressing up as like a character.
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