Former MSNBC host Joy Reid delivered another unhinged attack on Trump supporters during an appearance at Baldwin & Co. bookstore, just weeks after being fired from the network. Reid, who appeared alongside Ta-Nehisi Coates, doubled down on her anti-America rhetoric, once again labeling all 78 million Trump voters as “racists” and “bigots.”
Coates claimed that media outlets failed to acknowledge racism while rationalizing why Americans supported Trump in 2016.
“Look, man, I’m old enough to remember 2020, or 2016, when Trump won the first time. And every major paper in this world had a reason to tell us why white folks, quote-unquote working-class white folks, supported this racism, this bigotry, and this sexist for reasons that were not racism, sexism, or bigotry. A lot of resources were expended,” Coates said.
Coates continued:
‘Economic anxiety. Economic anxiety.’ Against data, a lot of resources. I mean, humanizing almost to the point of infantilizing.”
Coates concluded, stating, “And then I watch these people being bombed, and it’s like, you know, excuse my language, f**k y’all.”
Reid echoed Coates’ sentiments, referencing her mother’s immigration to the U.S. from Guyana and claiming that her family quickly recognized racism in America.
“And as somebody who’s, you know, my parents, my father was from the Congo and my mother was from Guyana, and so they were the immigrants who came here on purpose and they got the rude awakening,” Reid stated.
“My mother got the rude awakening like, ‘oh, it’s racist here.’ That’s weird.”
“She was like, this is the land of opportunity but not for me,” Reid added.
Coates chimed in by mocking white people who deny being racist.
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Earlier this month, MSNBC co-host Rachel Maddow called her own network “racist” for the cancellation of Joy Reid’s show, The Reid Out.
“Joy Reid’s show, The Reid Out, ended tonight, and Joy is not taking a different job in the network – she is leaving the network altogether, and that is very, very, very hard to take,” Rachel Maddow said before calling it a “bad mistake.”
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