Karen Attiah FIRED Then REHIRED After Charlie Kirk Death Post | Jason Whitlock Harmony

**Jason Whitlock** (0:00)
All right, no fire starter today. I apologize, but I really don't, because Shemeka Michelle is going to join us, but we have a special guest in April Chapman. She has her own podcast called Unshakable. She covers a lot of the issues that we cover right here on the Harmony Channel.
She was down in Mississippi earlier this week.
I'm gonna do a separate interview with her about that. She was down there covering the Nolan Wells case and talking with the families involved. I can't wait for that conversation. But today, we're going to cover what's going on at the Washington Post and Karen Attiah. This is a woman that had tweeted out some really negative things about the death of Charlie Kirk and the Washington Post said, hey, we don't need any of that. She was a columnist there covering race and culture or whatever. And they fired her. She sued to get her job back. And this week, she won that lawsuit and has been reinstated.
April, let's start with April's video that I saw that made me think, man, I want to get April on the show and talk about Karen and just the state of black women, something that me and Shemeka talk a lot about. So I want to start with this two-minute clip of April. Do you guys get a flavor for the type of content that April does? Let's play the clip.

**April Chapman** (1:31)
Y'all not going to like this, but it is risky and full of hidden liabilities to hire a black woman. They tend to be difficult, okay? They tend to be less compliant. They are more likely to file a lawsuit and cry racism or sexism or some other ism as a way to extort money from a company. She will get the company embroiled in some lawsuits that never end. And so you don't have to take my word for it. But because of the lack of the accountability and the ethnic narcissism of most liberal black females, like you don't really have this problem in conservative spaces with black women. But since 92% of all black women are progressive and liberal and Marxist in their world view, what I'm saying holds to be true. And they bring their world view with all of their ethnic narcissism and their privilege and their victim mentality. And what is the word that I'm looking for?
They bring a lot of arrogance and they bring a lot of entitlement to the workplace. And what ends up happening is it creates a very uncomfortable, unbecoming work environment to therefore now, despite all of the degrees and all of the accolades that women are boasting, they are a higher ring liability on top of the fact, the vast majority, these DEI, the 400,000 DEI government jobs were not jobs based on competence or necessity.
They were symbolism jobs as opposed to substance jobs.

**Jason Whitlock** (3:27)
That's amazing. Particularly coming from a black woman. We're used to hearing that type of commentary from Shemeka Michelle, but I think we've discovered another Shemeka Michelle in April Chapman. I want to give you a bit more context, just a little bit, and then we're going to bring April and Shemeka on. I just want to share with you, the Washington Post said in its termination letter to Ms. Attiah's post about Mr. Kirk, that they had harmed the integrity of the Washington Post and violated the standards requiring employees to use social media with civility and respect. Ms. Attiah's remarks about Mr. Kirk's assassination, which she posted to the social network, Blue Sky on September 10th, the day he was shot. This is on the day he was shot, responded to the outpouring of grief after the shooting with this, refusing to tear my clothes and smear ashes on my face in performative mourning for a white man that espouse violence is not the same as violence.
She wrote this on a post on the day he was shot. I can't blame the Washington Post for not wanting to be associated with Ms. Attiah. I'm not surprised that she sued and I'm not surprised that some liberal judge or some liberal court reinstated her.
April, the commentary we played of you, was that inspired by what just was transpiring with Ms. Attiah?

**April Chapman** (5:07)
Truth be told, I just learned about this woman's firing and reinstatement literally with your producers right before I came on. So it's just by God's providence that I had put that real out. And then we have a real life example, precisely outlining what I was talking about. It really wasn't inspired by that. This is just me knowing higher level, upper level management, C-suite executives, small business owners are like, these are conversations that are happening behind the scenes. It's, it's almost, it's, it's like the starter package. You know, if you have a company, it's an unwritten corporate culture that eventually is going to be a problem with the black women.