Joy Reid: Nothing In Place To Prevent White Nationalists From Using Rittenhouse Verdict To Attack Black Lives Matter – RealClearPolitics

MSNBC host Joy Reid said far-right groups acted like today was the Super Bowl following the acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse. Reacting to Vice President Kamala Harris' response to the verdict, Reid said we want Harris to be all things to all people, saying she is as much a victim of "the system" as the rest of us.

Reid called for white people to "look inward" and not to rely on a black woman to "come zooming in on her white horse" to solve your problems or "fix your feelings." Reid, a guest on her own show today, told her all-black panel of cable television commentators that Harris is a "victim" of the system just as much as they are. "It's not her job to fix it," Reid said of Harris and "the system."

"We want Kamala Harris to be all things to all people," Reid said Friday. "She has to represent everything black. But she's not the only person responsible to do that. This system is not on her shoulders. She didn't create it. She's as much a victim of it, lives under it just like we do on this panel. It's not her job to fix it."

"The problem is there is an L.A. Times reporter that talked about the far-right groups from The Proud Boys on who are absolutely licking their chops today acting like they won the Super Bowl according to this L.A. Times reporter," Reid said of the Rittenhouse verdict.

"We have nothing in place culturally or socially to stop the next group of white nationalists, Proud Boys, MAGA people, whoever they want to take from this verdict what they want and to use it as permission to attack Black Lives Matter," Reid fretted.

This is a problem white America has to do. They need to look inward. And don't look for a black lady to come zooming on her white horse to fix it and to fix your feelings about it. Because the problem is there is an L.A. Times reporter that talked about the far-right groups from The Proud Boys on who are absolutely licking their chops today acting like they won the Super Bowl according to this L.A. Times reporter. What we need to worry about is we have nothing in place legally. We have nothing in place culturally or socially to stop the next group of white nationalists, Proud Boys, MAGA people, whoever they want to take from this verdict what they want and to use it as permission to attack Black Lives Matter and Black Lives Matter ain't just black people as we just saw. Mr. Huber and Mr. Rosenbaum are white. they are Jewish. They are also victims and easily made victims because anyone who supports Black Lives Matter should be very afraid tonight.

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