# News Anchor is fired for referring to Kamala Harris as colored in news promo **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 22, 2020, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/news-anchor-is-fired-for-referring-to-kamala-harris-as-colored-in-news-promo/918775 "2020-08-22T20:45:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 45
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2020, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/news-anchor-is-fired-for-referring-to-kamala-harris-as-colored-in-news-promo/918775/45 "2020-08-23T01:17:49Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > Well, the board has spoken. The guy deserves to be slapped down and fired. I’m fine with that. I don’t have any big stake in this. > > It’s hard keeping up with cancel culture these days. That’s the point of the thread. Find out how others feel about current topics. There are plenty of people lined up willing to take his job. The station has to trust someone who is reading the news live. How do they know what other “unintentional” insult he’d make on the air? My kids who are older than this guy would never use that word, and probably have never even heard it. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/news-anchor-is-fired-for-referring-to-kamala-harris-as-colored-in-news-promo/918775)._