Did Bert Make A Racially Insensitive Mis-step Years Ago?

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🗓️ 22 October 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Bert wants to revisit something that happened over a decade ago…was it racially insensitive for him to allow his son to change the color of his skin to dress up as Muhammad Ali?

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0:27.0	Oh, yes.
0:29.0	The Bert Show.
0:33.0	Show.
0:34.0	Was I racially insensitive?
0:37.0	Was I naive maybe?
0:40.0	Twelve years ago.
0:41.0	I want to revisit this.
0:42.0	I'm excited to do so because anytime I do and ask me anything
0:46.2	on Instagram and if you're on Instagram you want to follow me it's a Bert show Bert. I get this probably once
0:51.7	every round and the question is would you handle the
0:58.1	Hayden my son situation with Muhammad Ali today the same way you did 12 years ago and back then I have friends
1:08.8	that are blacks that I ran this by also so it wasn't completely naive and I wasn't just asking my white
1:14.4	friends how they felt about it but we didn't have as many um black people on the
1:18.4	show back then to give input and now we do so I would really like to get the input from Mo and from
1:24.5	Amber and from Katie on this incident that happened in my personal life that I
1:29.7	brought to the radio and it was one of the most controversial things that we had talked about
1:33.8	on it. Were you here at the time? You were. Okay. Do you remember what your attitude was
1:37.9	about it back then? I honestly I don't. I really don't. So this was was I think I was like don't do it if I remember correctly
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