What I’ll Tell My Jewish Daughter About Nick Cannon’s Anti-Semitism

My (partially) Jewish daughter is just shy of her second birthday, so I get a hall pass on talking to her about Nick Cannon’s Anti-Semitism.

If you’ve been ultra-quarantined this week, here’s a quick recap via TMZ (ugh, hate using them as a source, but they had the full quotes) of Nick Cannon’s recent comments on his podcast.

Nick said that the power of melanin — or lack thereof — made white people “a little less” than darker-skinned people … and claims this deficiency leads to fear.

He was speaking anthropologically — meaning the very first white people in modern-day Europe — but went on to say white people’s fear made them lack compassion and ultimately … become evil.

Nick then referred to these white people of the past as “savages,” “barbaric” and added … “They’re the ones that are actually closer to animals, they’re the ones that are actually the true savages.”

Cannon went on to co-sign anti-Semitic conspiracies of his guest, hip hop OG Professor Grif (via CNN):

Cannon said that Griff was “speaking facts” and amplified Griff’s views that Jewish people controlled the media, likening it to the power of the Rothschild family, banking scions who have long been targets of anti-Semitic conspiracy theories.

“The Masked Singer” host also disputed that such views were anti-Semitic, saying Black people are the “true Hebrews.”