Joy Reid may have been fired from MSNBC over her divisiveness, but her latest comments prove exactly why she had no business anchoring a national news show in the first place. On her podcast, Reid launched into a tirade about white Americans that was as outrageous as it was openly racist.
According to Reid, white people are fundamentally incapable of inventing or creating anything. Their only skill, she claimed, is stealing ideas from Black Americans.
“We Black folk gave y’all country music, hip-hop, R&B, jazz, rock and roll. They couldn’t even invent that,” Reid said. “But they have to call a white man ‘The King’ because they couldn’t make rock and roll,” she added, taking aim at Elvis Presley.
Her guest, left-wing commentator Wajahat Ali, sat silently and nodded along as Reid doubled down. She insisted that white people are “incapable of creating culture on their own” and argued that without Black and Brown Americans—or the artificial boost provided by DEI policies—there would be “no culture in America” at all.
Think about that. A former prime-time host on a major cable network is now telling an audience that tens of millions of Americans are genetically or culturally too “dumb” to create anything original. This is not commentary—it’s racial slander dressed up as social critique.
Reid’s rhetoric also exposes the very double standard that has poisoned our national discourse: if a white commentator ever suggested that Black or Brown Americans had “no culture” or were “incapable” of inventing, their career would end in an instant. Yet Reid feels comfortable saying it into a microphone, and her allies in the media nod along.
This is the poison that passes for “progressive thought” today. Instead of elevating real conversation, figures like Joy Reid actively promote racial division by peddling resentment and rewriting history.
Watch the clip here and judge for yourself: