Kamala Harris Showed Up For a “Colored Sorority”

Fox Host Brian Kilmeade Says the Quiet Part Out Loud

William Spivey
The Polis
Published in
2 min readJul 25, 2024

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/24/kamala-harris-abortion

Fox News Host Brian Kilmeade is being alternately condemned and defended for criticizing Vice President Kamala Harris’s choice to live up to a previous commitment to address the Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc. National Convention rather than attend a joint session of Congress to hear Israel’s Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu.

“She will not show up for the Prime Minister’s joint session of Congress today. She’d rather address, in the summer, a sorority, a colored sorority, like she can’t get out of that?” — Brian Kilmeade

I’ve listened to this clip multiple times, and all I hear is “colored.”

When Kilmeade’s use of the word “colored” hit social media, it didn’t take long for Fox News to state that Kilmeade clearly used the word “college,” and anyone saying otherwise was basically a liar. Kilmeade said he’d “never used the word in his life,” and because he’d read books about Booker T. Washington and Frederick Douglass, nobody could think he’d…

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William Spivey
The Polis

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