CNN Host Don Lemon – who lives in a $4.3M home in Sag Harbor where 80% of residents are white – Says We’re Living in Two Different Realities as Black and White People…

by Daily Mail Staff

Don Lemon – who lives in a $4.3 million home in Sag Harbor where 80 percent of residents are white – has said black and white Americans are ‘living in two different realities.’

The CNN host told the Washington Post there had been a ‘false reality’ that racism no longer existed in the US after the nation elected its first black President Barack Obama.

The subsequent election of Donald Trump then became a ‘wake-up call to white people’, he said, while black people knew racism ‘was lurking beneath the surface’ the whole time.

‘We’re living in two different realities as black and white people,’ he said.

The 55-year-old also described the video of George Floyd’s murder as an ‘equalizer’ and said its timing was especially impactful because ‘we didn’t know what was going to happen the next day, or the next minute, or if we were going to have a job’ due to the pandemic…