WASHINGTON, D.C. — Washington Post opinion columnist Karen Attiah says she was fired over her social media commentary following Charlie Kirk’s killing.

“Last week, the Washington Post fired me,” she wrote on Substack Monday . “The reason? Speaking out against political violence, racial double standards, and America’s apathy toward guns.”

Attiah, the paper’s last full-time Black opinion writer, said her posts addressed racial double standards, gun violence and America’s apathy toward guns, The Guardian reported .

In one of her Bluesky comments posted Wednesday afternoon after Kirk’s death, she wrote : “I wish I had hope for gun control and that I could believe ‘political violence has no place in this country’. But we live in a country that accepts white children being massacred by g

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