A TV news anchor in Oklahoma City issued a tearful apology to her Black co-host after she made a racist comment on air, saying he looked like a gorilla.
During the local ABC station’s morning news program last week, KOCO anchor Alex Housden, a white woman, capped off a segment about a gorilla at the Oklahoma City Zoo by telling her Black co-anchor, Jason Hackett, that he resembled the primate. The racist comment sparked outrage among viewers and went viral, and Housden made her on-air apology the following day.
“I want to apologize not only to my co-anchor, Jason, but to our entire community,” she said through tears.
