But, listening to Kappell’s actual flub and knowing what we know about this case (e.g. No doubt people have used this mispronunciation as a blatant or stealth racial slur, and those people should be held accountable. Speaking quickly, I believe this spoonerism would be very easy to make with no ill-intent, nor unintentionally dredging up racial engram memories from using the term as a slur with friends or family. So, you’ve got “King” wedged between 2 “ oo” sounds. In addition to the “ oo” sound in “Junior”, you also have it in “Luther”. So just after saying a word a word entirely composed of sounds that involve the tongue in the back of the mouth, it is easy to accidentally keep it there when your start the next sound, changing “Junior” to “Kunior” But if you catch this mistake half way through and correct it you end up with King kun Junior. This is also where the tongue is for the “i” and the “ng” sound. The “k” and “J” sound are made identically by the mouth with the exception that while the “J” sound involves the tongue being placed so the tip is at the end of the mouth, the “k” sound has the tongue up in the center of the mouth. “We want Jeremy Kappell back on the air,” the petition reads.We can’t rule out that it was intentional, but it definitely would have been an easy mistake to make, whether or not the person ever used that word in their life. “wo“Say ‘King’ and ‘Junior’ 5 times fast and tell me what happens,” responded another Twitter user, than 33,000 people have signed a petition supporting Kappell, saying he was fired unfairly without being given a chance to explain or apologize. In defending Kappell, Roker said slips of the tongue are easy mistakes to make in live news.Ĭritics of Kappell said the slur is probably in his regular vocabulary for it to have come out so naturally. She later apologized, but Roker said “ she owes a bigger apology to folks of color across the country.” Last year, then-NBC talk show host Megyn Kelly defended the use of blackface in Halloween costumes. This isn’t the first time Roker has made comments about fellow members of the media under fire for perceived racism. “Your support means so much to this family.” “Al, thank you very much,” Kappell tweeted. On Wednesday, Kappell publicly thanked Roker for coming to his defense. Kappell has repeatedly said it was an accident - the result of speaking too quickly and jumbling sounds in a name. Viewers of Kappell’s Friday night broadcast from were split on whether they think he intentionally or accidentally used the slur. “I think made an unfortunate flub and should be given the chance to apologize on Anyone who has done live tv and screwed up (google any number of ones I’ve done) understands,” Roker tweeted Wednesday. In a video viewed by CNN, Kappell says “King” immediately after using the slur and continues with the broadcast. Roker, a longtime personality on NBC’s “Today” show, defended former WHEC-TV meteorologist Jeremy Kappell after he was fired for saying “Martin Luther Coon Park” when referring to a park named after Martin Luther King Jr. ![]() The meteorologist fired over the use of a racial slur on air just got a big defender - high-profile weatherman Al Roker. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.
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