CNN’s Chris Cuomo has been at the forefront of covering the Indiana religious freedom bill that’s placed a large swath of the country—and media—up in arms.
In an interview Thursday with TheWrap, Cuomo said he sees similarities between the line religious business owners are using to refuse services to LGBT people and white people who wouldn’t serve African Americans decades ago.
“It starts to smack familiar of what was said by certain religious people about race,” he said. “It’s not that I don’t like blacks, it’s just that I believe they’re unequal, so I’m not going to serve them,” Cuomo continued, evoking the line black business owners used to use to refuse service to black people.