CNN’s Chris Cuomo to Don Lemon: ‘You Know I’m Black on the Inside’
PAM KEY | 7 Mar 2021CNN’s anchor Chris Cuomo said, “I’m black on the inside,†during the handover segment with his colleague Don Lemon on Friday, as he cited the words of the theme song from the 1970s program “Good Times.â€
Partial transcript as follows:
CUOMO: I had somebody hit me with something today that hurt. She said to me, you know, I don’t have to tell you about how I’m living with my family and how setback we are by this because there was a TV show that was all about it in the 70s and it is the reality for too many people of color all over the country. And I said, what? And she said, I’ll give you a hint. She said that this was the end. Just looking out of the window watching the ash fall grow. And again, how it all looks handy down.
LEMON: How do you know the words “Good Times?â€
CUOMO: You know I’m black on the inside.
LEMON: “Good Times†any time you need a baby.
CUOMO: So, good times, so Florida, who, by the way, was a hugely educated. I think she was a Yale. And of course, Florida and James Evans the portrait of being stuck in the Chicago projects —
LEMON: Yes. . . . .
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Unbelievably condescending. Cuomo is black because he watched
Good Times when he was six years old? Seriously? And Lemon let him get away with it.