Tom Wilson, CEO of the Allstate Corporation, delivered a statement during the Thursday broadcast, in which he called on viewers to accept others’ differences.

Allstate CEO Tom Wilson suggested Americans have an "addiction to divisiveness" in a statement that has prompted backlash after the New Orleans terror attack.

Never before have the people in charge of American businesses and institutions seemed less worthy of the positions they hold. They are obviously not brilliant, but they are functional enough to have ascended corporate or institutional ladders.