I can't help but be reminded of this song from the musical Avenue Q (a very adult parody of "Sesame Street" ), I think it says it all.
The song is called "Everyone's a Little Bit Racist":

omfg

I’m astounded that someone would be dumb enough to say that, but Is it necessarily racist to say something like that?

Not only are we all racist but we are also tribal and our tribes can run from something as innocuous as the apartment complex I live in and my closeness/protection of other tenants to something far more serious such as being heterosexual and excluding gays and lesbians from friendship to hating anyone of another ethnicity, race, religion, etc.
If you look at the history of literature, advertisements, news releases in this country it has been racist since the beginning of time. Early plantation literature tried to explain how happy the blacks were to be cared for by the white slave holders - think of a Mammie or perhaps Uncle Remus. As Reconstruction began the literature began to change and now blacks had to be thought of as "less than" in intelligence, abilities, humanity, you name it. And then once the US moved into Jim Crow era the attack was ramped up to make the black man into a creature who would rape white women and kill their children and thus it made lynching for almost any reason a popular source of punishment without the need for trial or guilt. If you think about the fact that the Green Book was published up until 1967 to tell Negro travellers where they could safely lodge, have meals, shop, buy fuel for their car, etc. I think it becomes clear that the old ingrained racist and segregationist ideas are still with us. A good book if you want to explore this is "Stony the Road" by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

A stupid, arrogant woman!

From some of the research, apparently we are all "racist" at some very deep level of the psyche. We had to stay with our clan way back in prehistoric times in order to survive.

The look by the guy explains it all. I call it the black tax. The extra bullshit that comes with being black in this country.

When you think that white slave owners sometimes referred to their slaves as gorillas, you realize this is very hurtful, cruel and unacceptable.

I feel for her, as she said it without any ill intent, but it's so hard to recover from such a bonehead move.

Observations and opinions aside, she is not going to be able to live this down for a verrrrrryyy loooooooong time.

Did she say it in a bad way? They are co-hosts. What was the context?

Would it be indelicate of me to point out that human beings, that's ALL human beings, are a primate species very closely related to apes?

Also, the look on that guy's face is priceless. "Bitch, you;re dead as soon as we go to a commercial!

Well, there goes that fake, ‘we’re so buddy at 06:00 in the morning’, ‘we are just like you except we get paid your salary in a day’ relationship.

Don’t know if Oklahoma is in slave country or not but I am sure the comment delighted the punters who swan around in A Surrey With A Fringe On Top!

I am not sure an apology is enough. Perhaps sacking would be better.

Well, he sorta does....