Twitter users have reacted strongly to the clip, which seemed to demean African American speakers at the RNC.
An MSNBC guest-host turned heads on Sunday when she labeled the, which featured several Black speakers, a “modern-day minstrel show.”
“That was not a Saturday Night Live sketch,” Cross said to start off her piece. After noting that the RNC hosted at least a dozen African American speakers alone, she went on to say "I watched the Republican convention, and seeing the slew of black speakers that they had, it really did look like a modern-day minstrel show to me."
“Cross, I assure you that none of the BLACK Patriots that were speaking great about President Trump & his accomplishments were not wearing Black-Face!” one user, John E, tweeted in response to the clip.
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