Joy Reid is Spot On: Reprise
I posted this video shortly after the broadcast on MSNBC in which Joy Reid’s remarks about the insurrection on Jan 6th were first aired live.
Her comments are so strikingly accurate and truthful that there was no reply or retort from the other normally glib panelists who appeared with her on the program which addressed the events of the day.
In short, she left them stunned and speechless.
The video of her remarks bears repeat posting and viewing because of what is happening in Republican controlled state houses and capitols across the country.
Re the sense of proprietary entitlement white people manifest in the exercise of their white privilege, Joy Reid is spot on:
There are far too many white people in America today who would rather cling to their racism than preserve ‘their’ democracy.
White state legislators and governors who are moving to restrict and suppress voting by people of color believe that by doing so they are “taking their country back”.
However, if there is any truth in the notion that “demographics are destiny”, their efforts are doomed to fail in the long run.
Be that as it may, in the short term their refusal to share ‘their democracy’ and the willingness to destroy confidence in the electoral process due to the participation of non-whites may cause harm and damage to the body politic such that it could take decades or even generations to restore the faith and trust the people must have in the democratic means by which their government is chosen…
The concept of America is in deep trouble…
If America doesn’t continue to evolve toward a multiracial, multicultural, egalitarian society and democracy it must surely devolve into a plutocratic autocracy predicated on white supremacy….
Take your pick.
Apparently, a significant portion of the population has already made their choice.
06/27/2021 @ 10:34 am
The National Sanity Test of November 2020 was failed by nearly 75 million citizens. Most were white.
None were capable of protecting democracy.
06/27/2021 @ 10:59 am
“There are far too many white people in America today who would rather cling to their racism than preserve ‘their’ democracy.”
According to US Census Bureau data, April 1, 2010 (estimates base) to July 1, 2019, … Black or African American alone are 13.4% of the American population.
According to a recent poll conducted by the New York Times, 15% of the American population believe and adhere to QAnon conspiracy theories…
The fact that more people accept QAnon conspiracy narratives than there are black people in this country ought to be alarming, if not terrifying, to the majority of white folks who don’t subscribe to the QAnon trash…
But it isn’t…
07/05/2021 @ 3:20 pm
This attempt to restrict minority voting is not only immoral but self-defeating. The big American advantage is that we aren’t an ethnically based nation and we were deliberately founded that way, which is why there is separation of church and state.
The whole movement to “take back” the country is based on a bunch of myths and will do nothing but sabotage the country, by which I mean the whole country. One of the myths is that economies are zero-sum games. They absolutely are not. The pie doesn’t stay the same size and if you take a thinner slice of a larger pie, you can actually eat better. (Maybe conservatives never studied Piaget.) The better off people at the bottom of the economy do, the better off everyone else does. This is a long topic on which I’ve written frequently. In short, these people aren’t taking back their country, they’re ruining their country.