BBC has fired its well-known radio broadcaster Danny Baker after he posted a racist tweet about the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s new baby.
On Wednesday, Baker took to Twitter and posted a black and white photo of a man and woman holding hands with a chimpanzee in a suit and top hat, with a caption that read, Royal baby leaves hospital.” After facing some backlash for the tweet, he deleted the tweet and wrote another saying, he was sorry the “gag” had “whipped some up.” He then claimed that he was unaware of connotation because his “mind (is) not diseased.”
Baker tweeted out another post saying the tweet was “supposed to be a joke about Royals vs circus animals in posh clothes but interpreted as about monkeys & race, so rightly deleted. Royal watching not my forte.” On Thursday, the broadcaster said he made an “enormous mistake.” A BBC spokesperson said: “This was a serious error of judgment and goes against the values we as a station aim to embody. Danny’s a brilliant broadcaster but will no longer be presenting a weekly show with us.”
In response to the news, Baker arrogantly tweeted out that his firing was “masterclass in pompous faux-gravity” and that the BBC “literally threw me under the bus.”
#MeghanMarkle’s race and background have been the subject of scrutiny since she and #PrinceHarry went with public with their relationship. Now, the abuse has continued onto her child, the first mixed-race child born into the Royal Family. Archie Harrison Mountbatten Windsor was born beautifully Black early on Monday. According to CNN, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex presented their first-born to selected media outlets on Wednesday.
