Last month in Australia, a Sunrise morning news anchor named Samantha Armytage interviewed Lucy and Maria Aylmer, biracial fraternal twins, and loosed her racist inner self. In her introduction, Armytage described the pair as Maria who has “taken after her half-Jamaican mum” and Lucy who “got her dad’s fair skin, good on her.”
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Following outrage online, Armytage has apologized via the Daily Mail, but her perspective was already made clear.
The world is terrible and I’m going back to bed.
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DISCUSSION
My heart wants to believe that there was just a glimmer of “what the fuck, what did you just say” in the guys face once those words left her mouth.
probably not.
but i need to believe that lie to get through the day