Washington Post columnist Karen Attiah claims she was fired over reaction to Charlie Kirk's murder: 'Excessive, false mourning'

Washington Post columnist Karen Attiah claimed she was fired by the newspaper last week over her social media posts following the assassination of Charlie Kirk — including one in which she condemned “excessive, false mourning” of the conservative activist.

Attiah, who spent 11 years at the paper and was the last remaining black person on its opinion page, wrote on her Substack that she was accused by the newspaper of “gross misconduct” which endangered colleagues’ safety — allegations she rejected as false.

Attiah had taken aim at Kirk — as well as the outpouring of grief and sympathy for the conservative activist who was gunned down last week during a college campus appearance in Utah .

“My journalistic and moral values for balance compelled me to condemn violence and murder withou