That’s why, behind the scenes, my colleagues and I - white and Black - we decided, hey let’s go for it because we do try to keep it real here. It’s one we’re having tonight because it’s one that you are talking about at home and it’s one that has clearly entered the Atlanta mayor’s race. “Quite the contrary, we think that race is an authentic discussion to have.
“I didn’t say that white people couldn’t talk about race,” Reed says. you are what’s wrong with the world.”Īfter noting Kathy Rae misspelled the n-word, Reed tore into the viewer and her message. Really? you are what I call a N***r not a Black person. for Blacks to discuss certain subjects but not whites. “You need to be fired for the race baiting comment you made tonight,” it read. Then, a censored version of the quote appeared on the screen. I think it’s fair for people to see what she wrote.” “We’re going to put that email on the screen and then I’ll comment after it. “A woman by the name of Kathy Rae emailed me,” Reed says in the middle of the Tuesday, Dec.
Then, Reed paused the talk to point out a viewer’s email that included a racial slur. Sharon Reed of CBS46 schooled a news watcher named Kathy Rae about the anchor’s discussion of race as it related to the Atlanta mayoral race.Īs votes poured in for Keisha Lance Bottoms, a Black woman Democrat, and Mary Norwood, a white Independent candidate, Reed and her co-anchors Ben Swan and Alicia Roberts discussed the impact of race on the election in which Bottoms ultimately emerged victorious pending a recount. An Atlanta news anchor has gone viral for her classy clapback at a racist viewer email and now she’s explaining why she hit back.