MSNBC’s Joy Reid held absolutely nothing back on highly controversial QAnon Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene last night, following the GA Republican’s remarks from earlier this week, in which Greene openly said that Black people should be “proud” to see Confederate statues and monuments honoring the very people that enslaved their ancestors.
Reid’s rage with Greene over her horrifying racist remarks was coupled with the conspiracy theorist congresswoman’s calls for a “national divorce,” when Marjorie marked Presidents Day with a tweet in which she declared her desire to see the United States of America formally split into Red and Blue states. Since her declaration on Monday, Greene has been on a recruitment mission, appearing on Sean Hannity’s Fox prime time show, swaying the Right-wing host to agree with her succession ideas as she ominously warned of an impending civil war.
The MSNBC host let Greene have it yesterday, saying on her segment, “Marjorie Taylor Greene is still in our lives and providing her unique brand of national embarrassment and tomfoolery. But things are different now. She is part of the House majority and a member of the Homeland Security Committee’s majority. A member who wants to split the homeland apart,” before going on to air a clip from Greene’s Tuesday night Hannity appearance.
In her Fox interview, Greene said:
The last thing I ever want to see in America is a civil war. No one wants that, at least everyone I know would never want that. But it’s going that direction, and we have to do something about it.”
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“Well, those comments doubled down on her call for secession, made on President’s Day, no less,” Reid fired after the clip rolled. “Now, at the risk of taking Marge seriously, which is always an intellectual hazard, let’s plan for a hot minute. First of all, the last time Southerners like Marge proposed a ‘national divorce’, it was because they were holding 4 million African-Americans hostage as slaves, and they didn’t want to let them go. Today, roughly half of African-Americans still live in the 11 Southern states that comprise the Confederacy. And so if this ‘national divorce’ happens, they would be trapped in an Apartheid hellscape of a new country with zero healthcare, crappy public schools, barely a right to vote, and a full return to ownership by someone else of their bodies. Except this time, it wouldn’t just be Black women, it would be all women.”
“And their leader would be someone like the gal who said, ‘If I were Black people today and I walked by one of those statues’ — you know, the Confederate flag statues — ‘I would be so proud, because I would say, look at how far I’ve come in this country.’ You’re not Black. So a full return to the status quo pre-Thirteenth Amendment? Yeah, that’s a no. You’re not locking our folks in the rubber room with you, lady!”
Reid was referencing a video Greene posted earlier this week, in which she ranted and raged over the notion of removing Confederate statues across America. Her full quote:
I don’t want our statues taken down in our country. I don’t think you remove or erase history. So I do agree those statues shouldn’t be taken down. They’re part of our history. We should learn from our history. We don’t erase it. But that doesn’t make me a racist because I disagree. As I say, leave the statue up there. If I were Black people today and I walked by one of those statues, I would be so proud. Because I’d say Look how far I have come in this country. Look how far my people have what they have overcome. And these are good things.”
Marjorie Taylor Greene on Confederate statues: “If I were Black people today and I walked by one of those statues I would be so proud because I’d say look how far I have come in this country.” pic.twitter.com/6oSJ3knD3R
— PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 (@patriottakes) February 19, 2023
Genuinely, the woman is not even trying to hide her racism anymore.
See Reid’s MSNBC segment here:
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