Megyn Kelly Is Sorry, Wasn't Sure Blackface Is 'Indeed Wrong' Until Literally Today
CelebritiesDirt BagI know what you’re thinking: Megyn Kelly was probably banking on her terrible blackface analysis playing better than it did and nothing has changed. But who are you going to believe? The Megyn Kelly who said in 2013 that Santa has to be a white man and on Tuesday wondered aloud on TV if it really was racist for white people to wear blackface on Halloween…or the Megyn Kelly who totally gets it now.
On Tuesday, hours after bemoaning on Megyn Kelly Today the, I guess, loss of white people feeling comfortable wearing blackface (“Back when I was a kid, that was okay just as long as you were dressing as a character”), Kelly issued an apology addressed to her NBC colleagues. Invoking the name of her show, but not the actual word “racism,” Kelly wrote: