Someone Please Explain To Megyn Kelly Why Blackface Is Racist

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Megyn Kelly is super confused as to why people think blackface is racist for Halloween. 

During a panel discussion on Megyn Kelly Today with Jenna Bush Hager, Jacob Soboroff and Melissa Rivers, the host said, “You do get in trouble if you are a white person who puts on blackface for Halloween, or a black person who puts on whiteface for Halloween. Back when I was a kid, that was okay just as long as you were dressing as a character.”

Melissa later stated, “If you think it’s offensive, it probably is,” adding that “normal people kind of know where that line is.”

Megyn used Luann de Lesseps dressing as Diana Ross as an example:

“She made her skin look darker than it really is,” the former Fox host said. “People said that was racist! And I don’t know, like, I thought, like, ‘Who doesn’t love Diana Ross?’ She wants to look like Diana Ross for one day. I don’t know how that got racist on Halloween.”

Since the comment, Twitter exploded by reminding the world of a time when Megyn Kelly once insisted Santa Clause was white. 

“In Slate, they have a piece on dot com, ‘Santa Claus should not be a white man anymore’ and when I saw this headline, I kind of laughed and I said, ‘Oh, this is so ridiculous, yet another person claiming it’s racist to have a white Santa,’” she said at the time. “By the way for all you kids watching at home, Santa just is white, but this person is arguing that maybe we should also have a black Santa, but you know Santa is what he is and just so you know, we’re just debating this because someone wrote about it, kids.”