Information reaching Kossyderrickent has it that Joy Reid admits she only got into Harvard because of affirmative action.
“The ReidOut” host decided to dedicated almost five minutes to unpacking Carlson’s issue with her and her platform.
“Personally, I prefer my news and information to be grounded in reality, rather than monetizing my amygdala to keep me on edge and buying MyPillows and gold,” she said. She then aired a montage of Carlson targeting her with the aforementioned derogatory nickname.
“Oh, honey, honey. Tuckums. Is this really about me fixating on race, or is it about you fixating on race?” she asked, giving him a nickname of her own. But someone came to Denver to look for me. A Harvard recruiter flew in, met me at a restaurant, and did a pre-interview to pull me into Harvard. I was pulled in — affirmatively.
This was not the recruiter saying, “We’re going to take an unqualified person and put them in Harvard.” Rather, they were saying, “We’re going to take a very qualified person who we would never know existed and put them in Harvard.”
That’s how I got there. That’s how Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson got there. It’s how Justice Clarence Thomas got into Yale Law School.
But the minute I arrived at Harvard from my majority-Black little town of Montbello in Denver — the first week or two that I was in class — my presence was questioned by white people. She also called out Carlson for his educational and career mishaps, most of which she achieved herself.
“I don’t know, maybe I’m sensitive to this stuff, but it felt like kinda like a dog whistle. Did you want to go to Harvard? Did they reject you? And you think, ‘they let the race lady in, ugh, affirmative action, ugh!’ Let me cheer you up, ok? I got into Harvard, and ok, Yale, Vassar and the University of Denver too because I had really high GPA and fantastic S.A.T. Scores, that’s how affirmative action works, love,” she exclaimed.
“See, just because maybe you didn’t have great grades and great test scores and needed girlfriend’s daddy to help you get into college, doesn’t mean you don’t have amazing people in your life who love you. I mean, you got all that Swanson money, right? Fish sticks for everybody, woo!”
