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Alex Houdsden, an Oklahoma City News Anchor made a TEARFUL APOLOGY to her black co-host after she compared him to a GORILLA during a last week segment!!

She made the comparison to co-anchor, Jason Hackett, while they reported on a young gorilla at the Oklahoma City Zoo and Housden was was laughing at the segment before saying the primate "kind of looks like you" to which her co-anchor siad "he kind of does, actually yeah"

Video of the awkward exchange soon went viral where several users decry the remarks

On Friday, she made an on air grovelling apology who said "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. I said something yesterday that was inconsiderate, it was inappropriate and i hurt people. 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"

She expressed her apology to her viewers and Hackett accepted her apology and cosigned that the 2 had a fantastic relationship

He said "What she said yesterday was wrong. It cut deep for me and a lot of you in the community. The lesson here is that words matter. We are becoming a more diverse country and there is no excuse. We have to understand the stereotypes, we have to understand each other's backgrounds and the words that hurt and that cut deep. We have to find a way to replace those words with love and words of affirmation"

Would you call someone out if you heard them say what she said?.

Alex and Jason -







The Gorilla she compared him to -


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