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The Guardian:

It is much easier to condone blackface when you have no black neighbors.

Kelly grew up in a world without diversity and she still employs the lessons from her youth as a guide within an increasingly diverse and racially equitable America. Kelly tacitly yearns for the simplicity of her homogenous white upbringing as a panacea against the complexity of an America with a growing chorus of non-white voices.

This inclination makes her wholly inadequate to progressives, yet her conservative appeal has also fallen since she left Fox News. Kelly exists within a cultural, political, and journalistic no man’s land.

Lack brought Kelly to NBC to bridge the partisan divide, yet despite her evident disdain for Trump she unintentionally espouses his divisive philosophy albeit with a slightly more palatable façade.

While it would be unfair to describe Kelly as a racist, the logical and emotional foundations of her stance on blackface bear greater resemblance to Trump’s “Make America Great Again” rhetoric than any other current political message. They both ache for a white dominated yesteryear where overt racism was not considered racism because America’s systemic racism had effectively silenced the voices, ignored the history, and marginalized the existence of the non-white Americans negatively impacted by these actions. One side thirsts for white supremacy and the other remains cosseted in the ignorance of non-white people and the systemic racism that buttresses their white homogeneity. Kelly is obviously the latter.

(click here to continue reading Megyn Kelly was meant to bridge the partisan divide. She failed | Barrett Holmes Pitner | Opinion | The Guardian.)

Megyn Kelly is about my age, as is Brett Kavanaugh. In my childhood, blackface was not acceptable, nor was sexual assault. Kelly and Kavanaugh probably went to some off-the-hook Frat/Sorority parties where both blackface and sexual assault occurred.