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Hal Johnson Reveals He Started ‘Body Break’ To Battle Racism At TSN, Receives Apology
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etcanada.comHal Johnson is addressing the origins of “Body Break”. In a new video posted to the fitness show’s YouTube channel, Johnson reveals “Body Break” was “started to combat racism.” RELATED: Whoopi Goldberg Discusses Systemic Racism, Police Brutality: ‘Racism Is In The Heart Of The Country, You Can’t Get Away From It’ He explained that it all started in 1988 when he went to TSN wanting to be a sports reporter.
He was initially hired, but then things took a turn. “At 2 o’clock that afternoon, I got a phone call and he said sorry, but the higher-ups said because I’m Black and they already had Mark Jones… they don’t want to have two black reporters,” Johnson recalled. “I was obviously very disappointed.” In another episode along his journey,
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