KOCO Channel 5 TV morning host says her black co-anchor looks like a 'gorilla' during a news segment

[1911Sooner]

n Oklahoma City news anchor apologized to her black co-host on Friday after comparing him to a gorilla during a last week segment.

Alex Housden, morning anchor for KOCO-TV, had made the comparison with her co-anchor - Jason Hackett - while the duo reported on a young gorilla at the Oklahoma City Zoo on Thursday.

Housden told Hackett that the primate 'kind of looks like you' to which her co-anchor quickly responded 'he kind of does, actually yeah.'

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Video of the awkward exchange soon went viral on social media, with several users decrying the anchor's remarks.

On Friday, she apologized to 'one of my best friends for the past year and a half.'

'I'm here this morning because I want to apologize, not only to my coworker Jason, but to our entire community,' she said during the Friday segment. 'I said something yesterday that was inconsiderate, it was inappropriate and I hurt people.

She continued: I want you to know I understand how much I hurt you all out there and how much I hurt you. I would never do anything on purpose to hurt you.

Housden stressed that she loved her community and apologized from the bottom of her heart.

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Hackett accepted his co-host's apology and cosigned that the two had a fantastic relationship.

'What she said yesterday was wrong,' he said in response. It cut deep for me and a lot of you in the community.'

 

[DavidMcmillan]

I really like both of these folks, and I sincerely hope this will not cause either of them to be forced off the crew.

 

[CGS1]

I dont think she ment it in the way it is being projected.

 

[TwoForFlinching]

I dont think she ment it in the way it is being projected.

Dude, there is never an appropriate time for a white person to compare a black person to a gorilla in public and on live TV.

 

[Gunbuffer]

Dude, there is never an appropriate time for a white person to compare a black person to a gorilla in public and on live TV.

Yes there is. If you are also black.

 

[TwoForFlinching]

Yes there is. If you are also black.

Read that again.

 

[Grendelshooter]

Dude, there is never an appropriate time for a white person to compare a black person to a gorilla in public and on live TV.

Why?
Explain exactly why whites must be muzzled.
No one thinks twice about publishing articles encouraging white women to abort their white sons in the womb, no one cares that a CNN anchor goes on TV and celebrates the declining white population, and no one cares when whites are told that they are all evil oppressors.

But we are supposed to curtail our own speech so the people who want us extinct don’t get their feels hurt?

 

[doctorjj]

People offended by this are the racists. It brings out their own stereotypes that they are ashamed to admit. I’d bet dollars to donuts she would have said the same remark if her co-anchor was white. She didn’t mean it in a racist way. Just giving her co-worker a hard time.

 

[doctorjj]

Dude, there is never an appropriate time for a white person to compare a black person to a gorilla in public and on live TV.

You’re still seeing things as black and white. You’re the racist.

 

[Glock 40]

Uh yeah thats a resume generating event. She GONE!