Mississippi News Anchor Off the Air After Racially Offensive Comments
‘AWFUL MISTAKE’
Barbie Bassett, who is white, was scrubbed from the WLBT website after she quoted Snoop Dogg on a broadcast.
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Barbie Bassett, an anchor at Mississippi’s WBLT, appears to be out of a job following two racially offensive on-air incidents. The Clarion Ledger reports that Bassett has not appeared on newscasts since March 8, after she quoted a Snoop Dogg lyric that used a variation on the N-word. In the fall, she came under fire for using the phrase “grandmammy”—evoking the slave trade—in an exchange with a Black reporter. At the time, Bassett, a former beauty pageant queen, called her remark an “awful mistake” and said she would undergo training.
