There it was. Again. I opened my Monday to more race-raging. Joy Reid on a podcast. Great. Sure, as an individual and as a pundit, Joy Reid no longer matters, but her form of crazy still has currency. She was fired from MSNBC, and for good reason. She now spends her days raging on her own dime and taking her rage to podcasters who, like Wajahat Ali, nod in agreement to the utter racist nonsense she vomits out. Who is Wajahat Ali? 

Ali writes drivel for the New York Times among other publications. When he’s not praising a commie, he’s nodding in agreement and furrowing his brow to feckless drivel from guests on his Substack called “The Left Hook. A political, cultural and intellectual playground for the rest of us.” 

Bold flex, Waj.  

Reid ranted on Ali’s program with her usual rage against the machine. She wore a  “FDT” (F*** Donald Trump) hat and asserted that white people can’t invent anything.  

Joy Reid, who was so crazy and dumb MSNOW! fired her, goes on deranged rant, says white people can’t invent anything. pic.twitter.com/FF7hrMaNTx

— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) August 18, 2025 

Reid and her comrade in race-rage, Jamele Hill, are obsessed with race. Their race-baiting and demands that white Americans pay for sins no one living committed are wearing thin. They live their rage, 24/7. 

Slavery and the people who owned humans in America are dead. But slavery didn’t end with the American Civil War and the 13th and 14th Amendments. It continued in other parts of the world. In Africa, slavery wasn’t officially banned until the 1970s. Here in America, slavery was abolished in the 1860s. At the same time, half a world away, Barbary pirates were still enslaving people. Europe was a frequent source of slaves. 

Everybody was doing it! I love this argument. https://t.co/8YmY5A721m

— Jemele Hill (@jemelehill) August 17, 2025

A few years ago, I wrote about my great-grandfather. He was a Civil War veteran and POW. He was wounded and captured during the war, and spent the better part of two years in Confederate prisons. 

Crippled for life by his wounds, he spent the last months of the war in the infamous Andersonville prison. I recently learned that a great-grandfather on my mom’s side was an Iowa cavalry volunteer. He was shot in the shoulder and died at the age of 57, due entirely to that wound that never healed. 

I have multiple ancestors who fought for the Union. Why mention any of that? Because each time a Joy Reid or Jamele Hill reaches a new level of race-baiting or mentions that slavery was a “white man’s crime,” I feel a duty bound to enrage my haters with mentions of my ancestors, who suffered greatly to end slavery. I’ve blocked all of my usual cadre of haters, so they are screaming at clouds. But I got more hate email and online hate for writing about a Civil War ancestor than anything I have written since. 

People like Reid and Hill will scream that I can’t take credit for what my ancestors did. They are right. I am proud of their heroism, but I didn’t suffer war wounds fighting to end slavery. They did. Not me. 

Equally, Reid (a first-generation American) has no agency in what happened 160 years ago. Not one living person does. No one who suffered the indignities of American slavery is still living. 

The death of George Floyd supercharged BLM. His death created myths about his life and death, and equally perpetuated myths about race relations. Race-grifters like authors Nikole Hannah-Jones, Robin DiAngelo and grifter extraordinaire Ibram X. Kendi did nothing to help “heal wounds.” They healed their bank accounts with quixotic nonsense and circular pablum. Hannah-Jones said: 

I find it hard to believe that any member of the white race can have the audacity and hypocrisy to call any other culture savage. The white race is the biggest murderer, rapist, pillager and thief of the modern world….The crimes they committed were unnecessarily cruel and can only be described as acts of the devil.

Do you feel the healing?

Matt Walsh’s “Am I a Racist?” shone a spotlight on DiAngelo’s game. Kendi’s grift continues with books like “Anti-Racist Baby.” The grift is elegant. A white person cannot “un-racist” themselves. That scarlet letter is there for life. There is no “cure,” but if you buy their heroin, it will ease the pain of being a racist. There is no cure, but if you buy their book for $29.99 it might help ease the pain. Cults are like that.  

Fewer now, fortunately. Being called a “racist” used to mean something. Now, grifters have turned it into a meaningless, empty insult. It’s Chicken Little crying that the sky is falling.    

On Monday, my colleague Katie Jerkovich wrote about another race grifter: Colin Kaepernick. ESPN has apparently determined that his mythology isn’t worth the effort or airtime. Katie’s article informed us that, perhaps, ESPN has lost its appetite for this particular race-baiting revisionist pseudo-historian. 

Four years ago, Kaepernick threw his white adoptive parents under the bus, casting his mom as a dimwitted dolt and his dad as a clueless clown. Almost every coach got the same treatment. Perhaps ESPN was warned not to offer that storyline again. Perhaps his parents have had enough.  

Perhaps everyone has had enough.  

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