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Vice President JD Vance singled out ex-MSNBC host Joy Reid on Thursday, telling the liberal pundit to show a “little gratitude” for her country.
On Thursday, Vance took to X to respond to a clip of Reid discussing racism in the United States. The original video was taken in March, but was reposted by a conservative social media account this week. In the talk, Reid discusses that her parents got a “rude awakening” after immigrating to the United States.
“My mother got the rude awakening, like, oh, it’s racist here, that’s weird,” she said, adding that her mother realized this was “not a land of opportunity” for Black people.
Vance responded to the March clip by telling Reid, who was fired from MSNBC in a network shakeup in February, to show a “little gratitude.”
“Joy Reid has had such a good life in this country. It’s been overwhelmingly kind and gracious to her. She is far wealthier than most. Yet she oozes with contempt,” he wrote. “My honest, non-trolling advice to Joy Reid is that you’d be a much happier person if you showed a little gratitude.”
The original video of Reid comes from a talk she participated in with Ta-Nehisi Coates in March at Xavier University in New Orleans.
Vance and Reid have publicly feuded in the past. In September, Vance responded to Reid’s claim that he was a beneficiary of affirmative action policies.
“Maybe the way that JD Vance got into Yale is because they were tired of just letting in White men from New York, from all the elite schools, and they wanted an Appalachian White. That’s how that man got into Yale, I promise you,” she said in an interview with Don Lemon.
Vance responded to Reid’s take with a meme of himself, mocking her commentary.
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