The Hill finally had to fire antisemite Briahna Joy Gray. But somehow, Joy Reid continues to have her own shown on MSNBC in prime time. This amazes me. Did the FBI ever find out who hacked into her blog?
One of Reid's usual guests is Elie Mystal, the justice correspondent for The Nation. Here he is explaining why people like Sen. Tim Scott and Rep. Byron Donalds exist — because "there's a lot of money in telling white folks what they need to hear."
WATCH: Demand Justice board member Elie Mystal (who has wished death on a Supreme Court Justice) joined Joy Reid for the most unhinged and racist segment of TV I’ve seen on MSNBC in a while.
— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) June 7, 2024
Mystal: “That's why Tim Scott exists. That's why Byron Donalds exists…because the grift… pic.twitter.com/T4qsOjYLX7
"… because the grift is good. There's a lot of money in telling white folks what they need to hear.”
The grift is good all right … there must be a lot of money in keeping Reid on the air telling liberal white folks what they want to hear.
Remember when Washington Post fact-checker Glenn Kessler looked into Scott's family history to see if his "tidy" origin story was true?
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Donalds recently sparked a controversy by saying blacks were better off during Jim Crow. Actually, that's not what he said. He was talking about the black family unit:
"You see, during Jim Crow, the Black family was together. During Jim Crow, more Black people were not just conservative — Black people have always been conservative-minded — but more people voted conservatively," Donalds said.
Extreme Hakeem Jeffries immediately misconstrued what Donalds said:
Rep. Byron Donalds made the ignorant observation that Black people were better off under Jim Crow.
— Hakeem Jeffries (@RepJeffries) June 5, 2024
Fact check. pic.twitter.com/YAiOeaVzPD
"Fact check."
To her credit, Reid had Donalds, whom Georgetown Professor Zein El-Amine called a "race traitor," on as a guest, where he explained once more that he was talking about black families.
A lot of people are on the TL saying that Joy Reid made Byron Donalds look like a fool.. Am I missing something? Joy Reid made herself look like a fool.. This is how you handle these types of women.. remain calm, let them finish raising their voices, & then you correct them..… pic.twitter.com/FI9tse0vDo
— Jay’V (@JayVTheGreat) June 7, 2024
There’s no need for a shouting match. For some reason, many on the left will see a black woman talk loud, over-talk someone & swear up & down that person is “going off ..” Nah.. She didn’t come with facts or anything. She came with a narrative to push & words to spin; and notice how she still didn’t acknowledge that the Jim Crow laws were Democrat policies when it’s all said and done..
Here's a lengthy post by someone who goes by Black. Educator. Conservative.
During the Jim Crow Era, according to historical accounts, Black people faced severe oppression: they were lynched, denied voting rights, forbidden to marry interracially, and barred from sharing spaces with white people. Their homes and towns were frequently destroyed, they were… https://t.co/EJRvgwXat1
— Black.Educator.Conservative.🇺🇸 (@FavoriteTeach11) June 7, 2024
Their homes and towns were frequently destroyed, they were denied basic human rights, and they endured degradation at every turn.
Despite racism, black communities exhibited remarkable resilience and achievement. Without government assistance, they rebuilt their homes and towns. Black people established their own schools, such as Dunbar, Rosenwald, Booker T. Washington, and Piney Woods schools, which often outperformed prominent white schools in test scores. Many black families, like my great-grandparents who worked as cooks and in the fields, owned land.
Henry Louis Gates Jr., in "Making Black America," highlighted the close-knit nature of black communities during Jim Crow. Before 1960, the black marriage rate stood at 70%, according to Thomas Sowell.
In places like North Carolina, black people owned buses; Dr. Claud Anderson, in "Powernomics," noted his family's ownership of 500 black-owned buses during Jim Crow, enabling them to employ black mechanics, electricians, and administrators.
The successes of black people during Jim Crow are numerous and continue to be an important part of our history.
Yet, people like Joy Reid tell Byron not to talk about Jim Crow....unless it's about oppression.
Remember when President Joe Biden called Georgia's new voting laws "Jim Crow on steroids" while encouraging Major League Baseball to move the All-Star Game? Which it did, to a state with more strict voting laws. Commissioner Robert D. Manfred Jr. announced last year that the 2025 All-Star Game would be held in … Atlanta. Did the laws change?
Biden was asked if the Masters tournament should be moved out of Georgia. "That's up to the Masters… It is reassuring to see for-profit operations and businesses are speaking up about how these new Jim Crow laws are just antithetical to who we are," he replied.
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— Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) May 23, 2022
You may recall, in May ‘21, Dems & the MSM alleged that “Jim Crow 2.0” had arrived in Georgia over new voting laws.
As votes roll in for this week’s election we’ve learned early voting is up 300% & black early voting is at record highs.
Care to explain, guys?⤵️
The original outrage was led - stumblingly, haltingly - by @JoeBiden, who referred to the measure as “Jim Crow 2.0,” and “Jim Eagle” (an evolved version of Jim Crow, perhaps?)
— Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) May 23, 2022
I can just feel the unity.
Any follow up, Mr. President? pic.twitter.com/ULFAeFEDnx
I'd forgotten about that stupid "Jim Eagle" comment. Georgia election denier Stacey Abrams called the new voting laws "Jim Crow in a suit and tie.” Because campaigns were banned from handing out free food and drinks to people in line to vote.
Reid and Biden and the Democrats desperately want people to think that, as MSNBC put it, the "effects of Jim Crow Era live on in modern America." They want blacks to feel like they're victims. Biden gave this uplifting advice in his commencement speech at Morehouse College:
It's natural to wonder if the "democracy" you hear about actually works for you. What is democracy? That black men are being killed in the street. What is democracy? The trail of broken promises still leaves black communities behind. What is democracy? You have to be ten times better than anyone else to get a fair shot. Most of all, what does it mean? As you've heard before, to be a black man who loves his country even if it doesn't love him back in equal measure.
As I said, uplifting. Biden didn't mention that its Democrat policies that have paved the "trail of broken promises [that] still leaves black communities behind."
I mention all the time that one of the goals in the Black Lives Matter manifesto was the "disruption of the nuclear family." We've been assured that the nuclear family is a product of "whiteness and white culture."
The politics of popular Black culture defines itself according to oppression. It's central to their identity and any attempt to define Black identity differently is met with an attack.
— AlFromBayShore (@AlFromBayShore) June 7, 2024
Absolutely correct.
— Black.Educator.Conservative.🇺🇸 (@FavoriteTeach11) June 7, 2024
Blacks are waking up to the fact that the guy who said Mitt Romney was "gonna put y'all back in chains" sucks.
Donalds is on the shortlist of Trump's vice president, and that's fine with me.
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