In space, no one can hear you scream; but the aliens can apparently pick up your virtue signals on their scanners. CBS Mornings co-host Vlad Duthiers was sending out distress calls during Monday’s show after he was scolded by Dr. Mae Jemison (the first black woman in space) because he used the highly offensive term “mankind” to refer to the entire human species.
As they were sitting the West Texas desert, awaiting the launch of the Blue Origin rocket that would take their friend and co-host Gayle King to “space,” Duthiers received his first scolding by Jemison when he tried to tee her up to rebuke those who were supposedly downplaying the launch because the passengers were all women:
DUTHIERS: You heard Amanda Nguyen tell me in the interview that she’s conducting science experiments on this voyage, which I don’t think a lot of people knew. They…
