'Modern-day minstrel show' insult of RNC speakers draws harsh reaction to MSNBC guest host
Guest-host Tiffany D Cross joked that the RNC 'was not an SNL sketch'
By Peter Aitken | Fox News
An MSNBC guest-host turned heads on Sunday when she labeled the Republican National Convention, which featured several Black speakers, a “modern-day minstrel show.â€
Subbing in for Joy Reid on her Sunday show “AM Reid,†Tiffany D Cross dedicated a portion of her show to commenting on this past week’s RNC.
“That was not a Saturday Night Live sketch,†Cross said to start off her piece. After noting that the RNC hosted at least a dozen African American speakers alone, she went on to say "I watched the Republican convention, and seeing the slew of black speakers that they had, it really did look like a modern-day minstrel show to me."
The reference to minstrel shows – in which people wore black-face to imitate African Americans in song and dance numbers and variety acts – provided her statement with an uncomfortable tone.
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