Nick Cannon apologized to the Jewish community late Wednesday for his 'hurtful and divisive' words, a day after ViacomCBS severed ties with him for the remarks made on a podcast.
In this Dec. 10, 2018, file photo Nick Cannon poses for a portrait in New York. TORONTO -- Nick Cannon apologized to the Jewish community late Wednesday for his "hurtful and divisive" words, a day after ViacomCBS severed ties with him for the remarks made on a podcast.
Rabbi Abraham Cooper, the Simon Wiesenthal Center's associate dean, told The Associated Press that Cannon reached out to him Wednesday and during a 30-minute telephone conversation he apologized to the Jewish community and Cooper asked him to post it on social media. "It's not enough to say, 'I'm not a racist, I'm not a bigot,"' Cooper had told the AP earlier. "The statements he made are hurtful, and they're false."
"Anti-Semitism in particular over the past several years has been something that we've seen in increase , as well as racism and other issues," Segal added. "So when you hear an individual who has a public profile, who has influence over people, make statements that are highly offensive to the Jewish community, the first reaction is disappointment."
"The danger is that those groups get confused with other self-identified Israelites like Capers Funnye, who has a congregation in Chicago, and who is very much involved with the Ashkenazim Jewish community. So I want to make clear that the term 'Israelites' is a tricky term," he said.
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