*Former MSNBC host Touré Neblett is back on Twitter one day after he was fired from his gig at MSNBC.
After more than a year of silence since he apologized for tweets that were deemed insensitive to Holocaust victims, the former anchor on Aug. 1 tweeted a simple, “Hi.” The move suggests his hiatus may have been forced by the network.
Hi.
— Touré (@Toure) August 2, 2015
In May 2014, Toure tweeted an article calling for slavery reparations and endorsing its arguments. One of his followers shot back that “My family survived a concentration camp, came to the US w/ nothing, LEGALLY, and made it work.” Toure responded by chalking their survival up to “the power of whiteness.”
A few days later, he was forced to apologize and went off Twitter completely.
On Sunday (Aug. 2), he tweeted his farewell from “The Cycle,” which MSNBC canceled on July 30 along with “Now with Alex Wagner” and “The Ed Show” — as part of a larger effort to shift its daytime lineup away from opinion programming.
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