Joy Reid Absurdly Claims That the Media’s Focus on Ukraine Is Because of Race
MSNBC’s Joy Reid believes that the world is paying so much attention to the war Ukraine, not because it threatens to upend the post-Cold War order, but because of the color of its citizens. Reid highlighted the war in…

MSNBC’s Joy Reid believes that the world is paying so much attention to the war Ukraine, not because it threatens to upend the post-Cold War order, but because of the color of its citizens.
Reid highlighted the war in Yemen, which “we don’t hear much about in the U.S.,” during a segment of her show on Monday.
“It has triggered one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world due to widespread hunger, disease, and attacks on civilians. Four million Yemenis have been forced to leave their homes,” she explained.
While the host noted that Europe is witnessing its worst humanitarian crisis in decades due to the war in Ukraine, she pointed out, “We haven’t witnessed the same type of solidarity for the Yemenis as we do for the Ukrainians. We don’t see historic sanctions or global campaigns, corporations like Airbnb and Netflix taking a stand.”
Reid then turned to what she claimed was a “disparity in how human Ukrainians look and feel to Western Media compared to their browner and Blacker counterparts.”
She then played a montage of journalists talking about how



