Joy Reid, a left-leaning MSNBC anchor, acknowledged on Sunday that racial affirmative action was the only reason she was admitted to Harvard.
Reid's personal "ReidOut Blog" began, "I only got into Harvard because of affirmative action."
According to Reid's blog, a Harvard recruiter made the trip to Denver and assured Reid of admission. Reid continued by praising affirmative action for allowing her, Supreme Court justices Ketanji Brown Jackson and Clarence Thomas, as well as herself, to attend Ivy League universities.
Reid stated, "That's how I got there." Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson arrived there in that way. Justice Clarence Thomas entered Yale Law School in this manner. However, within the first week or so of my first class at Harvard from the mostly Black small town of Montbello in Denver, white people began to question my presence.
I was in a large conference class when some white students spoke up and claimed that affirmative action had brought the black students to the room. We all got into a big argument over it, she continued.
The MSNBC host then bemoaned how "miserable" her first year at Harvard was due to claims that people were suspicious of her admission. She continued by asserting that many students on campus were less intelligent than she and other black students, and that they had only been admitted due to generational legacies.
"And yet, some of the classmates I had in school were much less intelligent than I or the other Black students there. They gained access because their grandfather and father visited. People who are third- and fourth-generation legacies, whose parents paid Harvard money to get them in, went to school with someone whose name was on one of the buildings, she said.
She continued by charging the Supreme Court's conservative majority with "approval" of affirmative action for white people, whom she referred to as "people who benefited from slavery."
However, the majority of the Supreme Court is okay with affirmative action, she continued. They claimed that affirmative action is acceptable for those who benefited from slavery, specifically their descendants, who are so far ahead of Black people in terms of opportunity that we will never catch up to them (no matter how many Oprahs we get). That's because those people can afford to take them on expensive vacations. But if you want to enter based solely on your intelligence but you don't come from a legacy, sorry, you can't.
In a decision issued on Thursday, the Supreme Court determined that affirmative action violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Liberal media outlets have falsely suggested a return to segregated schools in a panic over the decision.
Reid's personal "ReidOut Blog" began, "I only got into Harvard because of affirmative action."
According to Reid's blog, a Harvard recruiter made the trip to Denver and assured Reid of admission. Reid continued by praising affirmative action for allowing her, Supreme Court justices Ketanji Brown Jackson and Clarence Thomas, as well as herself, to attend Ivy League universities.
Reid stated, "That's how I got there." Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson arrived there in that way. Justice Clarence Thomas entered Yale Law School in this manner. However, within the first week or so of my first class at Harvard from the mostly Black small town of Montbello in Denver, white people began to question my presence.
I was in a large conference class when some white students spoke up and claimed that affirmative action had brought the black students to the room. We all got into a big argument over it, she continued.
The MSNBC host then bemoaned how "miserable" her first year at Harvard was due to claims that people were suspicious of her admission. She continued by asserting that many students on campus were less intelligent than she and other black students, and that they had only been admitted due to generational legacies.
"And yet, some of the classmates I had in school were much less intelligent than I or the other Black students there. They gained access because their grandfather and father visited. People who are third- and fourth-generation legacies, whose parents paid Harvard money to get them in, went to school with someone whose name was on one of the buildings, she said.
She continued by charging the Supreme Court's conservative majority with "approval" of affirmative action for white people, whom she referred to as "people who benefited from slavery."
However, the majority of the Supreme Court is okay with affirmative action, she continued. They claimed that affirmative action is acceptable for those who benefited from slavery, specifically their descendants, who are so far ahead of Black people in terms of opportunity that we will never catch up to them (no matter how many Oprahs we get). That's because those people can afford to take them on expensive vacations. But if you want to enter based solely on your intelligence but you don't come from a legacy, sorry, you can't.
In a decision issued on Thursday, the Supreme Court determined that affirmative action violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Liberal media outlets have falsely suggested a return to segregated schools in a panic over the decision.
