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Nick Cannonsays he’s learned — andis still learning— from his mistakes.
Thefather of 12continued, “Even that alone is helpful and educational for both communities right and again too because that’s the thing we can sit up here and be enraged but if we don’t engage, what are we really doing if we can’t learn from one another?”
From now on, Cannon said he is “no longer about just talk” as he aims to continue “putting my money where my mouth is and my energy to where my heart is.” He believes this approach will benefit “the next people who say something in front of a microphone” so they “can have an understanding of what it is so they don’t they don’t stumble and fumble and have to lose opportunities or get so-called canceled.”
“It’s just about bringing people closer together,” he added. “Ultimately, nobody’s monolithic but we’re all one organism that allows this thing to keep pumping.”
“The Black and Jewish communities have both faced enormous hatred, oppression persecution and prejudice for thousands of years and in many ways have and will continue to work together to overcome these obstacles,” he previously wrote. “When you look at The Media, and other sectors in our nation’s history, African Americans and The people of the Jewish community have partnered to create some of the best, most revolutionary work we know today.”
“I am an advocate for people’s voices to be heard openly, fairly and candidly. In today’s conversation about anti-racism and social justice, I think we all - including myself - must continue educating one another and embrace uncomfortable conversations - it’s the only way we ALL get better,” he continued. “I encourage more healthy dialogue and welcome any experts, clergy, or spokespersons to any of my platforms to hold me accountable and correct me in any statement that I’ve made that has been projected as negative.”
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Cannon added that he was holding himself “accountable” and took “full responsibility” for the harmful things he said. “My intentions are only to show that as a beautiful human species we have way more commonalities than differences, So let’s embrace those as well as each other. We All Family,” he added.
“Are you forcing me to say the words ‘I’m sorry’? Are you making me bow down, ‘cause then again, that would be perpetuating that same rhetoric that we’re trying to get away from,” he said. “What we need is healing. What we need is discussion. Correct me. I don’t tell my children to say, ‘I’m sorry.’ I want them to understand where they need to be corrected. And then that’s how we grow.”
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Cannon was able to keep his role hostingThe Masked Singerat Fox upon the network acceptinghis public apology, which occurred as he began educating himself on his wrongs and the Jewish community as a whole. He evendonated his first post-scandal paycheckto theSimon Wiesenthal Center.
source: people.com
