(Headline USA) MSNBC’s resident race-baiter, Joy Reid, admitted on Thursday that the only reason she was accepted into Harvard University was because of affirmative action.
In a segment on colleague Chris Hayes’s show, Reid was asked to react to the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling that day, which struck down the use of race as a factor in college admissions based on a pair of decisions, including one against her alma mater.
“I got into Harvard only because of affirmative action,” said Reid, who has regularly displayed her lack of intellectual heft on camera by reducing complex issues into the most banal and simplistic of black-versus-white dynamics.
“I went to a school no one had ever heard of in Denver, Colorado, in a small suburb. I didn’t go to Exeter or Andover. I didn’t have college test prep,” Reid said.
“I just happened to be really nerdy and smart and have really good grades and good SAT scores,” she claimed.
A Harvard recruiter came to Denver “and did a pre-interview to pull me into Harvard,” Reid continued. “I was pulled in—affirmatively.”
Nonetheless, Reid complained that her presence at Harvard was “questioned by white people,” as if her class contributions were lowering the intellectual discourse.
“I was in a big conference class where some white students stood up and said, ‘Those students, the black students, they’re only here because of affirmative action,’” she claimed. “It became a huge argument that we all ended up having.”
This was the first time she had her “academic credentials questioned,” the MSNBC host claimed, suggesting that the transition from a no-name high school of limited academic rigor to one of the nation’s premier higher-learning institutions should have been seamless.
“It was one of the many reasons I was miserable there my freshman year—you felt completely out of place,” she said.
“People kept telling me, ‘You shouldn’t be here,’” she continued. “And yet, some of the people I went to school with were far less smart than me or the other black folks there.”
Reid did not address how affirmative action policies affect other minorities, including Asian–Americans, who are disproportionately impacted by the use of race in admissions.
