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Former CNN anchor Soledad O’Brien made stunning claims on Saturday\u00a0that a network exec once told her she could only have the “right kind” of black guests on her show.<\/p>\n

Reacting to the controversy that has rocked ABC News over the weekend, O’Brien reflected on her time at CNN and indicated that a\u00a0network executive discouraged her to sit down with black radio host Roland Martin.<\/p>\n

“This is an interesting read. Reminds me of the CNN exec who told me: ‘Roland Martin isn\u2019t the \u2018right kind of\u2019 Black person.’ She didn\u2019t want me to book him on my show. L,” O’Brien tweeted.<\/p>\n

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The tweet included an “L” at the end,\u00a0though it is unclear if that was alluding to the unnamed CNN executive or a typo.<\/p>\n

She added that, according to the network executive,\u00a0New York Times columnist Charles M. Blow, who was\u00a0a frequent guest of hers, was the “right kind of black.”<\/p>\n

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Blow, who is now a CNN contributor, reacted to O’Brien’s claim about him on Sunday.<\/p>\n

“I don\u2019t know how to take this ‘good negro’\u00a0talk\u2026” Blow wrote.<\/p>\n

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Martin also spoke out, tweeting “the internal s—\u00a0I had to encounter at CNN would blow folks away” and telling Blow, “the s— said about me by certain people there behind closed doors…”<\/p>\n

CNN did not immediately respond to Fox News’ request\u00a0for comment.<\/p>\n

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O’Brien, who left CNN in 2013 after 10\u00a0years at the network, was responding to a stunning report<\/a> from Huffington Post’s Yashar Ali that lays out damning accusations against\u00a0Barbara Fedida, head of ABC News talent, and her treatment of black journalists at the network.<\/p>\n

In 2018, during a contentious meeting about renewing \u201cGood Morning America\u201d anchor Robin Roberts’\u00a0contract,\u00a0Fedida reportedly\u00a0“asked what more Roberts could want and said it wasn\u2019t as if the network was asking Roberts to ‘pick cotton.'”<\/p>\n

Fedida also reportedly referred to “The View” co-host Sunny Hostin as “low rent.”<\/p>\n

Another source told Ali about a comment Fedida said about then-ABC News journalist\u00a0Kendis Gibson, a black anchor, that ABC \u201cspends more on toilet paper than we ever would on him.”<\/p>\n

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According to the\u00a0report<\/a>, Fedida would also refer to women as “c—s” openly in the office.<\/p>\n

Ali wrote that he had spoken with “34 sources\u00a0over the course of six months” comprised of current and former ABC News staff.<\/p>\n

“To say that she\u2019s an abusive figure is an understatement,\u201d a former ABC News staffer told the Huffington Post.<\/p>\n