Yeah, you’re really not supposed to say “colored” anymore to refer to Black people. Just because the NAACP and maybe some other legacy institutions (maybe even the sorority itself) haven’t adjusted their names does not make it okay. Now Fox and Friends viewers are going to start thinking it’s okay because host Brian Kilmeade used it while complaining about Vice President Kamala Harris’s plans to skip Israeli dictator Benjamin Netanyahu’s big address to Congress on Wednesday.
Mediaite has the next minute right after this clip and no, the Black dude there, Lawrence Jones, does not tell Kilmeade he fucked up. Jones did however warn Republicans the “DEI” bullshit is “going to tick voters off” and “you’re going to lose.” He also said “Look, I understand it, Biden set the stage for it saying: ‘Hey, I’m only going to select a black woman,'” which is a lie that Mediaite of course didn’t fact-check. In 2020 Biden said only he was committing to selecting a woman as running mate, not specifically a Black woman. Jones may have been confusing that statement with Biden committing to nominating a Black woman for the Supreme Court, which he did and fulfilled.
Anyway, we wonder what the hell Kilmeade was thinking in that moment, especially because he emphasized the word “colored,” like that aspect made Harris’s absence extra disrespectful to that fascist war criminal Netanyahu. Did he think it somehow sounded better than “Black sorority”?
In related news, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi also announced she’ll be fucking off from the address by “Bibi,” saying in a statement that “Speaker Pelosi will not be attending today’s Joint Meeting of Congress. This morning, she will join a Members meeting with Israeli citizens whose families have suffered in the wake of the October 7th Hamas terror attack and kidnappings.”