Black Americans risk being shunned by their communities if they don’t line up and vote for Kamala Harris, Joy Reid warned her supporters.
In an apparent attempt to shame the vice president’s supporters in the face of Donald Trump, the incendiary MSNBC host warned black voters that they would look “really weird and really alone” if they did not support the “extraordinary woman of color” in November’s presidential election.
And she renewed hostilities with black model Amber Rose, who angered her by speaking in support of Donald Trump at the Republican National Convention last week.
“The door needs to be closed behind Amber, and she looks crazy in there. But close the door behind her,” the liberal host told her nearly two million Twitter followers.
But their finger-pointing demands sparked accusations of inciting racism and a furious backlash against being told to vote along racial lines.
“There are no merits. Just special boxes ticked,” wrote one. “Black, female, first black woman.”
MSNBC host Joy Reid told her followers they would look “really weird and really lonely” if they didn’t support Kamala Harris in November’s presidential election.
The progressive commentator praised the vice president as an “extraordinary woman of color” who “brings together all aspects of culture.”
Reid seemed determined to get her message across as she delivered her first on-camera shot in a two-minute address to people she hailed as “family.”
“Given Vice President Kamala Harris’s stratospheric entry into the presidential campaign, and now that she’s secured enough delegates to become the nominee, you’re going to look really crazy being on the other side of that line, particularly as a person of color,” he said.
‘But really, like anyone who claims to have any connection to the culture.
‘You’d really look crazy on that side, given the cultural phenomenon of Vice President Kamala Devi Harris.
“She’s about to make history. She’s about to become the first female president.”
The Brooklyn-born Harvard graduate fiercely resisted the deafening chorus of demands for Joe Biden to drop out of the race as she broadcast from the RNC last week, suggesting her encounter with Covid was as heroic as Donald Trump’s defiance in the face of an assassin’s bullet.
“If he’s fine in a couple of days, doesn’t that convey exactly the same thing?” he suggested.
And he suggested the Secret Service had conspired with Donald Trump to allow him to have a photo op in the seconds after he was shot at his campaign rally on July 13.
‘Donald Trump is an older man who, for some reason, was given nine seconds to take an iconic photograph during an active shooter situation.
‘Strange situation, we’ll sort it out one day.’
But their finger-pointing demands sparked accusations of inciting racism and a furious backlash against those who told them to vote along racial lines.
She received a furious response from Rose after sneeringly dismissing the model as “racially ambiguous” following her appearance at the Republican National Convention.
“I don’t want to say she’s black because she herself has said she’s not,” Reid said.
“This woman, whatever race she has claimed to be, has said she is not black, but (the RNC) brought in someone whose entire career is based on black culture.”
The model, who used to date rapper Kanye West, responded to the presenter by insisting: “I never said I wasn’t black.”
“I said I identify as biracial,” she added in a now-deleted tweet.
‘I’m not going to invalidate my white father to make you feel more comfortable.
“Stop stirring up racism, your president stirs up enough racism for all of us.”
Reid waxed enthusiastic about the topic in Tuesday’s tweet, insisting that Harris “brings together all aspects of the culture.”
“She’s about to make history. She’s about to become the first female president,” he predicted.
‘She brings together the African American community, the AAPI community, younger people, she’s a whole meme.
‘She would be the first person from an HBCU, in the real world, to be president of the United States.
Reid’s comments came after she was accused of “racial incitement” over model Amber Rose’s speech in support of Donald Trump to RNC delegates last week.
‘In addition to being the first female president, in addition to being the first Black female president, in addition to being the first AAPI president.
‘She will bring it all and, more importantly, she will be the first female president since the fall of Roe v Wade.
‘A woman giving power back to women after six far-right members of the Supreme Court, including a woman who turned against us, took it away from us.’
But his analysis was dismissed as a demeaning appeal to identity politics after it was retweeted from his protected X account.
“Reid’s message is basically ‘if you have trouble deciding whether to support Kamala or Trump, then you’re not black,’ along with urging women to vote for Harris because she could be the first female president,” one wrote.
‘Identity-based guilt and anger are how the left controls people.’
“Do as you’re told, colored people,” paraphrased another, “Where have I heard that before?”
But his analysis was dismissed as a demeaning appeal to identity politics.
“I’ve never voted for anyone in my life just because they’re white. Why would I vote for someone just because they’re not?” asked a third.
Reid ended his appeal with an attack on artists who support the former president.
“Honey, this is a cultural moment,” he declared.
“Don’t find yourself on the wrong side of history, don’t find yourself on that lonely side because you’re going to look really crazy there with Kid Rock.”