Viacom terminates relationship with Nick Cannon over anti-whitr/anti-semitic comments

Feel like he might be the first black person to be held accountable over saying some questionable things.
NY Times article

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On the June 30 episode of the podcast, Mr. Cannon was interviewing the rapper Richard Griffin, known as Professor Griff, about his dismissal from the hip-hop group Public Enemy in 1989.

Mr. Griffin left the group after he said in an interview with The Washington Times: “The Jews are wicked. And we can prove this.” He also said that Jews were responsible for “the majority of wickedness that goes on across the globe.”

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It’s never hate speech, you can’t be anti-Semitic when we are the Semitic people,” Cannon said.  “When we are the same people who they want to be. That’s our birthright. We are the true Hebrews.”

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He also called white people the true savages, but that wasn't included in the article.

Podcast snippet "true savages"
Link to full length podcast in case anyone's interested. (I'm not)

Viacom is the parent company of cable networks MTV, MTV2 VH1, BET, Comedy Central, CMT, TV Land, and Nickelodeon.
Nick is the Creator and host of 1 of MTV's most popular shows airing currently, Wild N Out. Nick is also the host of Fox's The Masked Singer. To my knowledge Fox hasn't made a statement on this yet.