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Fox News Commentator David Bossie Apologizes For ‘Cotton–Picking Mind’ Comment To Black Panelist Joel Payne

David Bossie, a former Trump campaign official, apologized on Twitter for telling a black Fox News panelist that he was “out of his cotton-picking mind.”

Bossie made the comment to fellow panelist, Joel Payne, during a heated discussion on Fox & Friends involving likening the Trump administration’s practice of separating families at the border to Nazi actions during the Holocaust. Payne was momentarily stunned by the comment before responding with, “Cotton-picking mind? Brother, let me tell you something, I’ve got some relatives who picked cotton.”

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Although Fox declined to say whether Bossie, who joined Fox News in 2017, would be suspended after his on-air controversy, a spokesperson said in a statement, “David Bossie’s comments today were deeply offensive and wholly inappropriate. His remarks do not reflect the sentiments of Fox News and we do not in any way condone them.

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Later in the day, Payne appeared on MSNBC and said the two had a “terse” exchange, during which Bossie expressed “some regret.” Four and a half hours after the TV segment, Bossie tweeted his apology. Although Payne said on MSNBC he accepted the apology, but his comments prompted “frustration” among minorities.

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“Our family and people like us have worked very hard to come up over the years,” Payne, whose great-grandfather and namesake was a sharecropper, said. “And so, to have someone kid of reduce our experience and try to make light of that experience – which I imagine Mr. Bossie was doing – that was offensive and that was unacceptable to me.”

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