MSNBC host Joy Reid continued her on-air discussion of diversity, equity, and inclusion in a couple of TikTok videos on her personal account that were uploaded Thursday.
Earlier that day, Reid had hosted Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott on The ReidOut where he scoffed at the nickname “DEI Mayor” given to him by critics amid the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse. Reid would go on to reject the idea that black people are unfairly benefitting from DEI efforts in universities. The caption of one of her videos read, “la r*cistas [sic] think they’re slick!” using an incorrect form of the Spanish phrase “the racists.”
“Y’all think we don’t know what you mean when you say DEI? We know what you mean. We know what you mean,” Reid said in one video, then went on in a second video. “And another thing: Just a thought, maybe, maybe rather than the problem really being DEI, just a thought, maybe the problem is you. Like when your son Chad for instance doesn’t get into Harvard or Yale, maybe it’s not affirmative action. Maybe Chad’s application just kind of sucked.”
@joyreidofficial La r*cistas think they’re slick! 🤣🤣🤣
Reid went on to brag that she received acceptances from Brown, Vassar, University of Denver, Yale, and Harvard, the last of which she actually attended. She claimed she took and passed five Advanced Placement exams while in high school, which made her applications “amazing.”
“Just noodle on it because maybe it’s not the blacks or the browns or the undocumented or illegal as you call them, which is actually super offensive — maybe it’s not the Asians or the gays or the trans. Maybe, maybe it’s you,” Reid went on. “Maybe the reason you’re not getting the things you want is you maybe think about it; you should work on you so that you can do the things you wanna do rather than blame people who aren’t you. Something to think about. Y’all be blessed.”
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Both of Reid’s parents were college graduates, meeting as graduate students in the University of Iowa. Reid’s mother went on to become a college professor while Reid was in high school. In 1991, Reid graduated from Harvard with a concentration in film.