On Thursday night’s The ReidOut on MSNBC, host Joy Reid once again proved that to her, everything must be about race and that there are no other motivations behind other people’s actions or decisions. Sadly, this even included the majority of the justices of the Supreme Court which Reid falsely and outrageously claimed wanted to keep people who “look like [her] out of elite schools.” Reid provided zero evidence to back up her smear which was nothing new.
“A really smart friend of mine said to me this morning that what this Supreme Court ruling in affirmative action proves is that they’re not against affirmative action,” Reid insisted before claiming that “they’re fine with it for like the well-to-do. What they’re against is us. What they don't want is people who look like you and me in elite schools.”
Later on in the segment, Reid asked: “How are they gonna make the argument that we looked at your school class and there are too many blacks in it? That's gonna be a hell of an argument to try to make. Even in front of this Supreme Court.”
Reid seems to think that since the United States Supreme Court ruled affirmative action unconstitutional that now colleges and universities could discriminate on the basis of race. In reality, the opposite was true. Now schools can be free to accept students on merit alone, regardless of race.
Since she was unable to grasp that concept, she continued freaking out. “It is an amazing thing that anti-blackness and really open anti-blackness has become—the Republican Party doesn't feel they have to hide it anymore. They can just do it openly,” Reid cried.
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The relevant transcript is below. Click “expand” to read:
MSNBC’s The ReidOut
7/6/2023
7:22:05 p.m. EasternJOY REID: A really smart friend of mine said to me this morning that what this Supreme Court ruling in affirmative action proves is that they’re not against affirmative action. Because they’re fine with it for like the well-to-do. What they’re against is us. What they don't want is people who look like you and me in elite schools.
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REID: I wonder how they would make the argument. How are they gonna make the argument that we looked at your school class and there are too many blacks in it? That's gonna be a hell of an argument to try to make. Even in front of this Supreme Court that we think you have too many—not enough white people. Now you guys are counting by-- that means you’re looking by race and saying there are not enough white people.
SHERRILYN IFILL (HOWARD UNIVERSITY CIVIL RIGHTS CHAIR): That’s exactly right. And I think Ketanji Brown Jackson kind of hinted at that at the oral argument in the case when she suggested that some of these arguments might create the opportunity for an equal protection claim that black students would bring–
REID: That’s right. Yeah.
IFILL: About the way that race is used. But of course, J.D. Vance is not describing this as a legal matter. He is using this as a way of—
REID: He’s threatening people.
IFILL: Well, I don't think he’s even thinking about how this might play out in a court.
REID: Yeah.
IFILL: What he wants is the political favor.
REID: Of course.
IFILL: That he gets from saying the most extreme and most outrageous things.
REID: It is an amazing thing that anti-blackness and really open anti-blackness has become—the Republican Party doesn't feel they have to hide it anymore. They can just do it openly.
