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That's Racist!

The ABC News World Now Anchor team raised more than a few eyebrows with comments that a number of people felt was racist.

FTVLive heard from a few Latino Journalists that said this wasn’t cool.

While talking about Hurricane Isaias, ABC Anchor Kenneth Moton mocked the name, said it was too hard to pronounce and that it sounded more like a “Mexican dish.” His co-Anchor used an accent to say the name of Isaias.

The comment was bad, but then posting it to social media after the fact shows you were obviously tone-deaf as to how this played out.

Here is the post from Moton:

After some blowback, Moton headed back to social media to delete the video and then post this apology:

Props to him for saying he was sorry, as far as we know his co-Anchor has not.

Next time, you might want to just stick with what’s in the prompter.

Just saying….