{"id":55983,"date":"2020-07-18T21:20:17","date_gmt":"2020-07-19T03:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=55983"},"modified":"2020-07-18T21:20:17","modified_gmt":"2020-07-19T03:20:17","slug":"nick-cannon-talks-with-rabbi-and-issues-sincere-apology-for-video-with-anti-semitic-statements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/nick-cannon-talks-with-rabbi-and-issues-sincere-apology-for-video-with-anti-semitic-statements\/","title":{"rendered":"Nick Cannon talks with rabbi and issues \u2018sincere\u2019 apology for video with anti-Semitic statements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(JTA) \u2014 Actor and television host Nick Cannon offered his \u201cmost deepest and sincere apologies\u201d to the Jewish community for &nbsp;the \u201churtful and divisive words\u201d he used in an episode of his podcast.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey reinforced the worst stereotypes of a proud and magnificent people and I feel ashamed of the uninformed and na\u00efve place that these words came from,\u201d he said in a tweet on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">First and foremost I extend my deepest and most sincere apologies to my Jewish sisters and brothers for the hurtful and divisive words that came out of my mouth during my interview with Richard Griffin.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Nick Cannon (@NickCannon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NickCannon\/status\/1283584162457251841?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 16, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>It came a day after he was fired from ViacomCBS over an interview \u201cwhich promoted hateful speech and spread anti-Semitic conspiracy theories,\u201d with Richard \u201cProfessor Griff\u201d Griffin, a rapper who performed with Public Enemy and was&nbsp;kicked out of the group&nbsp;in 1989 for making anti-Semitic remarks.<\/p>\n<p>The apology came after a 30-minute phone conversation with Rabbi Abraham Cooper, the associate dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, the Associated Press reported. Cooper told the AP that they had plans to meet again in person. Cannon tweeted about the conversation, calling it a \u201cblessed opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fox on Wednesday said in a statement that, in light of his apology, Cannon would remain the host and executive producer of \u201cThe Masked Singer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, Cannon had posted on social media that he had \u201cno hate in my heart nor malice intention\u201d but did not actually apologize for the scrutinized interview.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Nick%20Cannon%20talks%20with%20rabbi%20and%20issues%20%E2%80%98sincere%E2%80%99%20apology%20for%20video%20with%20anti-Semitic%20statements\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7139,25],"tags":[10782,8790,8795,3045,10766],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55983"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55983"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55985,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55983\/revisions\/55985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}