Vice President JD Vance said Thursday former MSNBC host Joy Reid “oozes with contempt” after she claimed America was racist.
In a social media post, Vance comment ed on a video of Reid, who said during an interview:
My father was from the Congo and my mother was from Guyana. They were the immigrants who came here on purpose and they got the rude awakening. My mother got the rude awakening like, “Oh, it’s racist here.” She was like, “They didn’t tell me this was the land of opportunity but not for me.”
Vance said:
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. My honest, non-trolling advice to Joy Reid is that you’d be a much happier person if you showed a little grat