Joy Reid’s father was from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and her mother a college professor and nutritionist from Guyana. After her engineer father divorced her mother, she lived with her mother until age 17, when her mother died from cancer. I am sure this built much resentment even though she worked her way for a degree at Harvard.
I ask, what kind of mentality causes one to hate the country that gave her the ability to study at Harvard? What in her studies gave her such a warped vision of America’s difficult beginnings? Perhaps it was a lapse of Harvard to give the true picture.
America never invented slavery, it practiced slavery that was a system created early in man’s history. Africa became a source of slaves for the cultures of the Mediterranean world many centuries before the discovery of the Americas. Muslims took slavery, as a result of conquest and spoils, and institutionalized it. Arab slavers continued to enslave Africans well into the first decades of the 20th century. Even to this day, Arab slavers are still at work in Sudan and Mauritania, buying and selling black Africans.
Joy Reid should credit America for ending this tragic institution. A large credit should go to Christianity that regarded it as sin and all men are born in God’s favor. She should thank the Americans that sacrificed much life to liberate those enslaved human beings through the use of the musket and the cannon.
Slavery? What the hell does she think about the sex traders that are importing young people across our southern border.
Bring them in, keep them drugged up, sell them for sex until their bodies break, and then turn them out on the streets.