Two white news anchors in Arkansas have been suspended and their boss has been fired after they donned afro wigs in an on-air segment to celebrate the end of a heatwave as temperatures drppped into the 70s.
KATV news station, based in Little Rock, suspended anchor Chris May and meteorologist Barry Brandt for wearing the wigs during the 10pm newscast on September 16, according to the Washington Post.
Their segment, dubbed ‘return to the 70s’ – where on-air personalities sported looks popular in the 1970s – was intended as a way to celebrate a return to 70-degree weather after 90F heat wave all summer and a triple-digit day early in September.
Sinclair Broadcast Group, which owns the station, fired its longtime news director Nick Genty, and indefinitely suspended May and Brandt.
DailyMail.com has reached out to May and Brandt for comment.
White people can’t have bushy, curly hair? I remember a number of white guys with fros. Still see some kids today. Not sure how that rates a suspension or firing.
Doesn’t even look like an “afro” wig. It looks like curly black hair. Perms were a thing in the 70s. Ask Barbara Streisand.
why? I see black girls with blonde red wigs all the time! problem is?