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Martin Luther King's daughter says weatherman who used racial slur should get second chance

Martin Luther King's daughter says weatherman who used racial slur should get second chance

Civil rights pioneer Martin Luther King Jr.’s daughter has spoken out in support of a meteorologist who used a racial slur while saying her dad’s name.

Dr Bernice King told TMZ that rather than getting fired, Jeremy Kappell, of WHEC-TV, should have been retrained, or demoted, before being given a second chance.

She said:

I believe that when these racial slurs occur, unless there’s a situation where it’s continual, that people need an opportunity to be rehabilitated and we don’t focus a lot on rehabilitation in our society today.

Kappell was fired by NBC this week for referring to a park named in memory of the civil rights legend as “Martin Luther C–n King Jr. Park” — in what he describes as an accidental “verbal slip”.

He says:

I spoke a little too fast when I was referencing Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. — so fast to the point where I jumbled a couple of words.

Well-known weather forecaster Al Roker also sent similar words of support to Kappell this week, tweeting:

H/T: NYPost

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