OPINION:
I was shocked to hear that radio host Amber Athey was fired from the talk radio station WMAL by the station’s corporate owners for making a joke about Vice President Kamala Harris’ outfit at the State of the Union. Ms. Athey used a UPS advertising slogan, “What has brown done for you?” in reference to Harris’ brown outfit and her performance as vice president. Such a question has often been asked about vice presidents. It is a serious stretch for the station’s corporate owners to categorize Ms. Athey’s joke as racist.
It appears to me that the station owners are racist for their interpretation of the joke. I might as well throw in that they are sexist for firing a young woman. I have listened to WMAL for years and have enjoyed many of their conservative talk shows. If they’re firing of Ms. Athey, they need to fire just about all their current talk show hosts. Maybe they can recruit Alec Baldwin to restart his talk show host career with them.
RILEY MAYHALL
Germantown, Maryland
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