CNN’s Don Lemon made Megyn Kelly to task for attacking the use of blackface in Halloween costumes this week.

During a segment with legion Chris Cuomo on Tuesday night, Lemon, 52, condemned the former Fox News host, who depicted ire that morning when she questioned whether wearing blackface as part of a Halloween costume is actually racist during a segment on her show.

She and an all-white panel were discussing campus attempts to discourage “inappropriate and offensive costumes” when Kelly requested: “But what is racist? Because rightfully, you do get in disturb if you are a white person who frames on blackface at Halloween or a black person who throws on whiteface for Halloween. Back when I was a kid, that was okay as long as you were dressing up as like a character.”

“How much occasion do you have, Chris? ” Lemon said when asked for his take over the dissension. “We do this every day, sometimes you say stupid stuffs when you’re live. But I’m just going to be honest. Megyn is 47 years old — she’s our senility. There has never been a time in her 47 times that blackface has been acceptable.”

“There were all white people on that board. There were no African Americans , no people of color to say,’ Hey, Megyn , not cool, ’ ” Lemon continued. “I wonder how much diversity she has on her faculty. I don’t know, I’m not there, but I would imagine there is not a great deal because people would have informed her. That is something that beings of the larger culture don’t understand about racism and about advantage. I don’t know countless black people who are trying to be white people for Halloween, or dressing up as white people. But I know a good deal of the individuals who do it for black people.”

Lemon said Kelly “is not aware of the history of home countries, ” pointing to her oft-ridiculed pronouncements on Fox News that Santa Claus is white.

“It’s not a one-off, ” he said. “Remember the whole Santa Claus thing, which was offensive? I anticipate parties actually need to educate themselves about this particular point, and we need to realize in this culture that some people do have a privilege where they don’t have to think about it. It does not exist to them.”

Lemon also pointed out that Kelly replaced the Today depict slit previously held by Tamron Hall and her co-anchor Al Roker, accentuating the importance of ensuring that diversity in the hiring process.

“Megyn has taken over for what used to be an African-American woman and a pitch-black mortal who had that slit, and who really did better than her in the ratings, and who, in this situation, would have said:’ It is never okay to do blackface, ’ ” he said. “There would not be this discussion. So diversity is key.”

“The people who are hiring parties like Megyn, like me and you, should recognise how important diversification is, ” he continued. “How important it is for their talent to know the history of this country and not say stupid concept like,’ It’s okay, it’s always been okay for people to dress up as long as they’re reward and memorializing people.’ It’s never okay.”

The outcry over Kelly’s remarks perseveres on social media, and even her NBC colleagues have condemned her harshly on-air. Craig Melvin called her notes “indefensible” as well as “ignorant and racist, ” and Al Roker vowed she “owes a bigger apology to kinfolks of pigment around the country.”

Kelly, 47, has apologized twice — first in an internal email to colleagues and then on-air — but the reaction continues to heighten, and questions about her future at the network tower, especially with the morning show just days away from its annual Halloween special.

Thursday and Friday’s broadcast of her 9 a. m. evidence hour have been replaced with pre-taped bouts in the wake of the controversy.

“Given the circumstances, Megyn Kelly Today will be on tape the rest of the week, ” an NBC spokesperson confirmed to PEOPLE on Thursday.

A source likewise told PEOPLE Kelly’s departure from Today is expected by the end of the season in December.

Additionally, Kelly and her agency CAA have also parted natures, the talent agency confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter. A informant told PEOPLE that Kelly was fired from CAA because of conflicts of interest the selection board had with NBC.

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