MSNBC’s Joy Reid is known for saying terrible things and this is no different.
During the third day of the Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearings, Joy Reid of MSNBC was enraged by Republicans questioning Supreme Court candidate Ketanji Brown Jackson.
In the early 1990s, the far-left presenter referred to Republican members of the committee as “raging white senators” and also seized the occasion to disparage Justice Clarence Thomas, the nation’s only current Black member of the Supreme Court, by calling him “a creepy male candidate.”
“In 2022, a Black woman federal judge appears before the Senate Judiciary Committee as the president’s candidate to the United States Supreme Court and is handled in the same heinous manner that Anita Hill was treated as a witness against a creepy male nominee in the 1990s. The United States of America, “Reid compared Jackson favorably to Hill, the woman who accused Thomas of sexual harassment during his confirmation hearings in 1991, per story.
The defining moment of Thomas’ difficult confirmation occurred during his own testimony, in which he attacked Senate Democrats for their management of the process in response to Hill’s allegations.
Hill, a former employee of Thomas, testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee, which was led by then-Sen. Joe Biden at the time. Biden presided over the tumultuous session that culminated in Thomas’ narrow confirmation, and he is alleged to have privately indicated that he did not trust Hill. Many on the left chastised Biden for not being strong enough in his support for Hill, while some on the right regarded it as smear tactics.
“This is a circus, after all. It’s a national embarrassment. So, from my perspective as an American who is black, it’s a rising hanging for uppity blacks who dare to think for themselves in any way, “he stated. “And it’s a message that unless you grovel to an old system, you’ll suffer the consequences. Rather of being hung from a tree, you will be lynched, destroyed, and caricatured by a Senate committee.”
Reid’s quote exactly, as stated on Twitter, was: “A Black woman federal judge walks into a Senate Judiciary hearing as the president’s nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court in 2022, and gets treated by raging white Senators the same sordid way Anita Hill was treated as a witness against a creepy male nominee in the 1990s.”
