Joy Reid Calls Founding Fathers ‘Leeches,’ ‘Killers’ In Resurfaced Rant
A rant about the Founding Fathers from former MSNBC host Joy Reid resurfaced on social media Sunday, accusing them of genocide against “indigenous people.” MSNBC fired Reid in February as part of an effort to retool its…
A rant about the Founding Fathers from former MSNBC host Joy Reid resurfaced on social media Sunday, accusing them of genocide against “indigenous people.”
MSNBC fired Reid in February as part of an effort to retool its lineup, shortly after Comcast announced it was spinning off MSNBC, CNBC, USA, E!, Oxygen, SyFy and other news and entertainment channels after MSNBC ratings fell by over fifty percent following the defeat of Kamala Harris in the 2024 election. MSNBC rebranded as MSNOW in November.
During her rant, Reid claimed the Founding Fathers had a sense of “entitlement” and appeared to side with King George III over the American Revolution.
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“So that you know, this nation was founded by killers who slaughtered 90 percent of the indigenous people,” Reid claimed. “Leeches who glommed off of the indigenous who taught them how to survive in the wilderness and then murdered them… and took all their land. And you talk about entitlement, they felt entitled to own other people and they didn’t even want to pay taxes on it, so they decided to have a whole war with Britain.”
Reid had a history of racially inflammatory comments directed towards conservatives on her MSNBC show. On Nov. 5, 2024, she