MSNBC’s Joy Reid is drawing criticism from right-leaning pundits after she referred to some of the Supreme Court Justices as “Christian nationalists on the court” victimizing “black and brown folks.”
According to a transcript published on Breitbart, the “ReidOut” host berated the “religious right” for making abortion their main issue. Her comments come on the heels of a leaked draft opinion by Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito that would purportedly overturn Roe v. Wade.
“The reality is that this movement grew out of a deeply segregationist movement and then belatedly latched on to abortion because it was better PR, to be blunt,” said Reid.
“What does it mean that the victims of this ruling are going to be disproportionately the very same people who were subject to segregation, black and brown folks, indigenous people, people who have been beaten down over the course of the history that they no longer want us to learn?”
Reid compared Alito attempting to overturn Roe v. Wade to the Plessy ruling that said black people get to have no rights because they never had rights.
Plessy v. Ferguson was a landmark 1896 U.S. Supreme Court decision that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation under the “separate but equal” doctrine.
