Al Roker fires back at killjoys who called his Halloween costume ‘racist’

NY Post Page Six ^ | November 1, 2018 | Yaron Steinbuch

[bert]

Roker is not racist...... roker is a fat joke

[bert]

Because accusing the maid of murder would be racist

[Joe 6-pack]

Megyn Kelly should have dressed up as Al Roker dressed up as Doc Brown.

[Fightin Whitey]

Something about this smells bad to me...

[Dahoser]

“The fact is, while she [Megyn Kelly] apologized to the (NBC) staff, she owes a bigger apology to folks of color around the country,” Roker said on the air. “This is a history going back to the 1830s minstrel shows to demean and denigrate a race. It wasn’t right.”

Funny thing, Al, you didn't have a problem when your network gave a blackface performer his own primetime show, and further, didn't say a peep about him appearing on the Today Show on October 4 of this year. But unlike you, I'm happy to repeat that as often as it takes for people to get it.

[NEMDF]

The liberals will ALWAYS have the upperhand at making stupid “rules”, though. Because they will always say that oppression, white supremacy, or whatever other victimhood they choose to invoke, is a direct result of white people.

[Political Junkie Too]

It's okay because Hillary said that Doc Browns all look alike.

-PJ

[kenmcg]

Old crap in his pants Roker, looks racist to me.

[redgolum]

I thought we had established that you can only dress up as the ethnic group you are, not anything else?

I thought that to do otherwise would lead to imprisonment and loss of livelihood?

[GOPJ]

I think ALL of us should compete for who’s racial group has the thinnest skin and what group qualifies for ‘hysterical drama queen’ of all groups.

Then we can hand out the ‘Assh*les of the World’ award to the winner.

I know seeing a black person dressed up as a white person triggers my fragile being - and makes me cry for a safe place... and makes me want to sue and have the person fired. /s (OK, that said I do believe it’s racist to do black face this soon after the end of Jim Crow - but in another decade or two it should be banned as a pity party ploy)

[rwa265]

Can you imagine what would happen if Savanah Guthrie dressed up as Oda Mae Brown with a Whoopie wig?

[TBP]

Either both things are racist or neither is.

[jyo19]

Why didn’t he just go as ET? He already looks like him!

[FreeReign]

“I can be Doc Brown, and I wear the outfit and wig and not change my skin color if you’re white, you can be President Obama if you want. Just don’t color your skin!”

Sorry Al Roker. The wig that you are wearing for your costume depicts a white person's hair.

So using your own silly PC standards, you are being racist and a hypocritical racist at that.

[mass55th]

I don't remember any such crap going on when Eddie Murphy played a white man on SNL:

White Like Me

[ReaganGeneration2]

If he wanted to dress up as a fictional African-American scientist, he could do Neil deGrasse Tyson.

[BlueLancer]

I don't remember any such crap going on when Eddie Murphy played a white man on SNL: White Like Me

Or when the Wayans brothers made "White Chicks" ..

[mass55th]

Oh yeah...forgot that flick. Thanks for reminding me. I remember watching it, and finding it funny.

[BookmanTheJanitor]

Side note - Al Roker looks in bad health.