Joy Reid and the Rise of Open Racism From the Left
23rd August 2025
We’ve talked about the challenges to big multiracial democracies like the United States, India, and Brazil. The other two, the latter two, don’t do very well because they accentuate a caste or a racial or an ethic spoils system. The United States is the only one in history that has been somewhat successful, very successful. But it depends on everybody looking at their own identity as incidental to being an American, rather than essential.
So, why am I talking about this? Recently, Joy Reid, who was an anchorwoman at MSNBC and let go, I think, not for any other reasons, because of poor ratings, but she has a podcast and she blasted, collectively, white people. And she said that “they can’t invent anything.” And then she went into a diatribe about American music, that it was solely the domain of black people.
But what I’m getting at is, we’re getting very dangerous in this DEI movement, as it starts to emit its death throes, as it’s challenged for being racist, which it is. It’s racial essentialism. People who defend it double down, and they double down in a way that’s very injurious for the rest of the country.