Kevin Dietz, who has spent the last 26 years with WDIV Detroit, said his racial comment was his way to address 'a serious subject' — a lack of diversity — 'through humor.'
A longtime reporter for WDIV Detroit has taken to Facebook to address his termination from the station following a racial comment he made in regards to a fellow reporter. According to Kevin Dietz, he had attempted to use humor to address the"challenges it's been for our company, and many companies, to achieve diversity goals," and that his colleague, an African-American, was not offended.
Dietz, who has spent the past 26 years with WDIV-TV, an NBC-affiliated station licensed to Detroit, Michigan, said he had made the comment during a social event during the Investigative Reporters & Editors conference earlier this year in Houston. "He expressed that we are friends, conveyed to them all the help I have given him throughout his career, and the long list of stories I have done on television fighting against racism in Michigan," Dietz shared in his post.
The longtime reporter said that he regrets making the comment, and he apologizes to anyone he might have offended.
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