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Zac Brown Band Apologizes For Skit They Did At A Boston Concert.

Some say it was a tasteless gag!

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Some say it was a tasteless gag!

A man with dwarfism was outraged when the Zac Brown Band used a little person in a skit at a recent concert at Boston’s Fenway Park.  John Young was working at the concert when he saw the skit, which involved a person with dwarfism running on stage dressed as a security guard and wrestling someone to the ground.  Young called the skit "a tasteless gag" and "very cliche" on Facebook. "I can't believe this is still happening in 2019," he wrote. "I think there's a big difference between laughing with people and laughing at people."

This isn’t the first time the Zac Brown Band has come under fire for using people with dwarfism, in 2012 the band used a little person as a human bowling ball, something the Little People Of America calls, "incredibly degrading.”  Although Zac Brown did apologize directly to Young for the skit, do you think Young was too sensitive about the situation or was the Zac Brown Band being insensitive to little people?

I am still confused why they needed a skit during the show?

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