Will Don Lemmon Be Cancelled for The Item Spotted Behind Him During CNN Segment?
By C. Douglas Golden, The Western Journal
Published January 4, 2021 at 11:19am On Dec. 31, somewhere around 8 p.m. on the East Coast, the talking heads on CNN stop getting outraged and start getting drunk.
Yes, in a tradition even difficulties of 2020 couldn’t stop from happening, CNN’s New Year’s Eve sloppy merriment went on as usual. Shots of vodka! Double entendres! Anything goes!
Hopefully nothing serious ever happens late on New Year’s Eve, because Brooke Baldwin trying to pronounce “Azerbaijan†after a civilian airliner gets shot down over its airspace will be a tragicomic meme the network will never be able to live down.
Things were a bit different this year and hosts weren’t at massive parties throughout the United States, as per usual. Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen still anchored the night from a mostly empty Times Square, but Don Lemon was in at home with Brooke Baldwin, the CNN host he’s usually paired with for the New Year.
The thing with watching Lemon’s segments on New Year’s Eve is to spot the exact moment his BAC hits 0.15. Usually, it’s when he makes mistakes like thinking a reporter from local TV station was a former girlfriend. (That relationship took place, one assumed, before Lemon was openly gay.)
Because it was in Lemon’s kitchen, however, his blood alcohol content wasn’t exactly what people spotted. Instead, it was this:
Wait a minute Don Lemon what is this?? pic.twitter.com/d4nwgA0SLw
— Domˣⴠ(@BeykandaForever) January 1, 2021
That’s what’s known as a “mammy jar†— a form of ceramic jar with a female blackface character, popular in the Old South for reasons you might be able to deduce.
“The mammy stereotype portrays black women as obedient maids to white families,†The New York Times’ Elisha Brown wrote in a 2019 piece.
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