“Do you think we’re ever going to have a real conversation about race in this country?” MSNBC guest host Joy-Ann Reid asked her guest at the conclusion of one of the most self-serving and dishonest segments on the subject of race in the United States yet broadcast on her network.
Reid’s cable news home has taken the occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the civil rights movement’s march on Washington D.C. and Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s iconic “I Have a Dream” speech to, ironically, set race relations back as far as they can. In the name of furthering progress by highlighting injustices – real or perceived – some of the networks’ hosts have set out on a mission to alienate as many minorities from the political system as possible by creating boogiemen and normalizing language commonly recognizable as hate speech by anyone who does not outright agree with the sentiments expressed.
Joining Joy Reid on Friday was “anti-racism activist” and author Tim Wise. In that segment, host and guest attacked some conservative media outlets for calling on civil rights leaders to address the killing of Christopher Lane, an Australian exchange student, by three teens, two black and one white....
The perpetually dishonest “dialogue” on race was further elevated when Wise insisted that the Republican Party as a whole is a segregationist party. Wise insisted that the GOP is “a white nationalist, Afrikaner, Boer party.”
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