MSNBC host Joy Reid spiraled Thursday during her show, going on a nearly 3-minute rant to Republican Florida Rep. Byron Donalds, preventing him from answering her question.
Donalds appeared on “The ReidOut” to discuss a statement Donalds made while speaking at a Philadelphia event, in which the lawmaker commented on how black marriage rates were higher during the Jim Crow era. Following Donalds’s response to the pushback over his statement, Reid went into detail about a story in which a black son and father were brutally attacked and murdered during the Jim Crow era over the son’s love letter to a white woman, stating that the black man in the home “had no rights, could not protect his wife from rape, could not protect his son from lynching.” (RELATED: Black GOP Rep Says ‘MSNBC Is Using’ Joy Reid After She Dismisses Him As Token MAGA Prop)
“So again, why would you quote that era and say that at that time, the family all being in the home together was something we should think of as a good thing?” Reid questioned.
“Well, first of all, Joy, the story you bring up and you’re bringing up is a tragedy. One of the great tragedies of the Jim Crow era. This is why those policies —” Donalds began.