He's an older guy, showing some very poorly placed paranoia.
We see this all over the world. You can come here, but you better behave like us or you're in trouble. It's largely irrational but it's pretty common for a traditionalist to fear change, and what he believes to be the way things should be fading.
Cherry is very pro military, which I've always admired, but in this case he let his fear of losing something or change drive him into a very stupid bigoted comment.
Certainly don't blame anyone for being upset about it, his comments were wrong, but not all that surprising to me.
He had the same fears with Europeans taking over the NHL in the 90s.
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