Black college alumni blast Fox News host who appears to call sorority ‘colored’ ahead of Kamala Harris speech

Democratic officials and alumni from historically Black college fraternities and sororities are fuming over a clip of a Fox News host they argue includes him saying “colored sorority” ahead of Vice President Kamala Harris’s remarks to the organization.

Fox News and other network personalities have argued that Fox & Friends panelist Brian Kilmeade said “college sorority” on Wednesday’s program. A reporter for Politico who initially flagged the clip on social media later deleted his post.

In Wednesday’s broadcast, Kilmeade had criticized the presumptive Democratic nominee for president for skipping Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to Congress to instead deliver remarks to historically Black sorority Zeta Phi Beta in Indianapolis.

“The problem with Kamala Harris, number one, she has not had her record exploited heavily … and number two is she hasn’t sat down for an interview. When she sits down for an interview and says, ‘Do you want to fund ICE? Where do you stand on Medicare for All? Why didn’t you show up?’ — the most recent decision, you already gotta question. She will not show up for the prime minister’s joint session of Congress today,” Kilmeade said.

“She would rather address, in the summer, a sorority — a [colored] sorority — like she can’t get out of that. So that’s her decision, and that’s her decision to back up the protesters,” he said.

A statement from Fox News Media to The Independent said that the Politico reporter’s tweet “completely misquoted and unnecessarily maligned Brian Kilmeade who clearly said college sorority.”

The segment on Fox & Friends also has followed several days of coverage from right-wing media and statements from Republican lawmakers suggesting that Harris only made her