'Kind Of Looks Like You': News Anchor Apologizes After Comparing Black Co-Anchor To A Gorilla

What possessed a crazy ass TV anchor to compare her co-anchor to a gorilla? You know what time it is … Roll it!

During a morning broadcast on Oklahoma’s KOCO-TV, an ABC affiliate, Alex Housden was reporting on gorillas at the local zoo. While doing so, Housden told her co-anchor, Jason Hackett, a black man, it “kind of looks like you.” Hackett responded, “He kind of does, actually, yeah.” [

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