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Joy Reid
Joy Reid
American Journalist
Born: Dec 8, 1968
America American Black Country White You
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Ailes built a Kingdom of Yes. That was his genius. He understood the id of many white conservatives - their sense of constant persecution and victimization; and their existential fears of an America whose racial makeup, sexual mores and gender roles were careening in the opposite direction of the country of their childhood. Joy Reid
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The criminal justice system in the United States is designed to do two things really well: to railroad black and brown bodies into prison, and to keep police officers out of it. Joy Reid
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I always want to be doing something - going somewhere, doing a project, teaching a class, writing an article. I try to use up my day. You have a limited time on this planet - try to use as much of it as you can for productive purposes. Joy Reid
Time Day You Class Writing Try Somewhere Project Something Purposes Limited Always Limited Time Doing Up Article Going Want Much Planet Use Productive Teaching
Donald Trump is many things - a tantrum-throwing man-child and a wannabe strongman pining for his very own banana republic among them - but perhaps most of all he is a giant, melon-colored distraction from what is happening to our country under his watch. Joy Reid
Country Own Our Giant Distraction He Perhaps Most His Pining Trump Very Banana Donald Donald Trump Happening Republic Them Many Among Things Watch
If you are Black or Brown, or a liberal or immigrant or Democrat, or a woman unwilling to quietly submit, then Ailes was the ultimate villain. You were the object of mockery and scorn - sometimes overt, often subtle. You were the thing to be gawked at, pawed at, jeered at, propositioned or feared. Joy Reid
You Woman Sometimes Black Submit Liberal Immigrant Object Feared Brown Democrat Unwilling Were Ultimate Scorn Mockery Quietly Often Subtle Then Villain Thing
When I was 15 years old, my sister and I went on a trip to Europe. We went on scholarship because my mother didn't have the money to pay the full fare for the two of us, which ran into the thousands of dollars. Joy Reid
Money Mother Old Sister Pay Ran Thousands Trip Scholarship Because Dollars Years Which Us Fare Full Europe Two
To be white in America is to have the confidence to say, without a second thought: this space, this neighborhood, this city, this county, this country is mine. Joy Reid
Confidence Space Thought Country White Mine Say Neighborhood City County Without America Second
Trump channeled ethno-populist rage as naturally and charismatically as George Wallace had during the 1960s, while seating a billionaire cabinet. Joy Reid
Rage Cabinet Had George Trump Wallace While Naturally Billionaire
The reversion of American society to a nation of the superrich and the rest... is straining the country in ways that go way beyond economics. Joy Reid
Rest Country Economics Nation Society Way Ways Beyond Go American American Society
Technology has made it a lot easier to be productive. It's incredibly helpful to be able to get little bits of information quickly. Joy Reid
Technology Made Incredibly Easier Bits Able Lot Quickly Get Information Little Productive Helpful
I think social media tools are helpful, so long as you pick your social media wisely. Joy Reid
You Social Media Long Think Tools Pick Wisely Social Your Helpful Media
In fundamental ways, the 2016 Democratic primary has been a litigation of the Obama years, and of whether the president's 2008 campaign vow of 'change we can believe in' succeeded or failed. Joy Reid
Change Believe President Ways Has-Been Obama Failed Primary Vow Democratic Been Years Campaign Whether Litigation Succeeded Fundamental
Of all the liberal resentments during the Obama years, one of the sharpest has been the failure to secure a public insurance option as part of the Affordable Care Act. Joy Reid
Failure Care Liberal Secure Has-Been Obama Part Sharpest Insurance Been Years Option Affordable Affordable Care Act Public Act
President Barack Obama read to a certain portion of white America as an unending attack on white Christian identity, centrality and cultural relevance. In their minds, he was seeking to end their right to bear arms and the right of conservatives to speak freely. Joy Reid
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If I had to reduce 'Black Panther' to a single word, it would be 'glorious.' Joy Reid
Word Black Single Glorious Panther Would Would-Be Had Reduce Single Word
There is a twinge of abandonment that comes with being a member of the African Diaspora. But 'Black Panther' fearlessly introduces and then complicates this and other deeply held albeit rarely expressed emotions; that indeed is what makes this film so profoundly innovative. Joy Reid
Emotions Abandonment Black Other Panther Innovative Indeed Member Rarely Fearlessly Makes African Being Then Held Expressed Film Deeply Albeit Profoundly
If you've never feared the police - if you don't get a dull ache in the pit of your stomach when you see red and blue flashing lights, even when you know you're not doing anything wrong - consider yourself lucky. Joy Reid
You Yourself Police Consider See Feared Never Wrong Red Lights Know Doing Dull Get Stomach Pit Blue Aches Flashing Flashing Lights Anything Your Lucky Even
If a novel were written about Florida's administration of its healthcare for the working poor, an appropriate title might be: 'Don't get sick, and God help you if you do.' Joy Reid
God You Sick Appropriate Administration About Written Healthcare Were God Help Get Title Poor Might Working Help Novel Florida
Who in the GOP would complain if Trump federalizes 'stop and frisk' or encourages its proliferation in states using the power of the Justice Department purse? Joy Reid
Justice Power Complain States Proliferation Would Purse GOP Trump Encourages Department Stop Justice Department Who Using
Trump's trade and immigration policies will deliver an economic shock to states like Texas where trade produces a substantial share of the jobs, and which depend on high oil prices. Joy Reid
Immigration Will Depend States Jobs High Economic Prices Deliver Share Like Policies Trade Trump Texas Shock Substantial Oil Where Oil Prices Which Produces
Americans have, at various times, leaned on the FBI for a measure of justice that local and state police couldn't be counted on to deliver, and recoiled in fear at their exercise of raw federal power. That uneasy trust; the combination of need and dread, is the lot that FBI agents live with day to day. Joy Reid
Day Justice Trust Fear Police Power Live State Local Dread Various Federal Deliver Counted Raw Day-To-Day Combination Exercise Lot Uneasy Times American Agents Measure Need
Trump is reviled around the world. Joy Reid
World Around Trump Reviled
We are not, in some fundamental ways, a single country. The map of that vast red swatch of states and rural counties that voted for Trump, and the blue coastal edges and scattered urban centers where Clinton won, are a pictograph of mutual contempt. Joy Reid
Country Single States Ways Rural Mutual Some Scattered Vast Red Counties Voted Contempt Edges Clinton Trump Won Blue Where Centers Urban Coastal Map Fundamental
Whether on guns, race, culture or feminism, there really are two Americas. Joy Reid
Culture Feminism Guns Whether Race Really Americas Two
Trump's cabinet picks seem designed to unwind government itself, leaving the average citizen completely exposed and vulnerable to full exploitation by corporate interests. Joy Reid
Government Citizen Exploitation Corporate Corporate Interests Seem Cabinet Picks Vulnerable Unwind Leaving Trump Itself Average Interests Full Exposed Designed
The Trumps have spent exactly zero percent of their lives caring about anyone other than themselves. Joy Reid
Other Caring Spent Exactly About Percent Than Anyone Themselves Lives Zero
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