{"id":1205432,"date":"2022-01-10T16:19:59","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T21:19:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1205432"},"modified":"2022-01-10T16:20:14","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T21:20:14","slug":"joy-reid-on-january-6-i-worried-rioters-would-destroy-black-history-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joy-reid-on-january-6-i-worried-rioters-would-destroy-black-history-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"Joy Reid: On January 6, I Worried Rioters Would Destroy Black History Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjoy-reid-on-january-6-i-worried-rioters-would-destroy-black-history-museum%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1205432&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>As she watched rioters break into the U.S. Capitol last January 6, MSNBC host Joy Reid has revealed her greatest worry was that the mob would vandalize the Black History Museum, because the protests were \u201cdeeply rooted in anti-blackness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can remember every moment of that day, really, and thinking to myself, \u2018My God I hope that these marauding masses of MAGA supporters don\u2019t find the Black History Museum and ransack it.\u2019 That was the first thing that struck me as I saw them, you know, heading toward the Capitol and starting to bash their way in,\u201d said Reid on the anniversary of the disturbance. \u201cFor some reason that was the thing that stuck in my head.\u201d She also said a picture of a man holding a Confederate flag inside the U.S. Capitol \u201cdisgusts me more than any of the other images\u201d of the January 6 riots.<\/p>\n<p>Reid proceeded to racialize the actions of a mostly white mob trying to prevent mostly white legislators from certifying the election of one white, male, septuagenarian in place of another.<\/p>\n<p>Reid noted the riot took place \u201cthe same day that Georgia&nbsp;elected the state\u2019s first black&nbsp;senator and first Jewish&nbsp;senator. The attack on our Capitol was also an attack on those&nbsp;victories, an outright refusal of having to&nbsp;accept the will and the votes of&nbsp;black and brown Americans.\u201d In reality, the Georgia runoff elections took place on <a href=\"https:\/\/ballotpedia.org\/January_5,_2021,_election_results\">January 5<\/a>; state officials certified the results on <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/534822-georgia-secretary-of-state-certifies-warnock-ossoff-victories-in-senate\">January 19<\/a>; and the rioters did not mention the election of Senators Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff (D) as their rationale.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe events of January 6th were&nbsp;certainly anti-democratic, but they were also deeply rooted in anti-blackness,\u201d Reid <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thereidout\/status\/1480009949489111040\">asserted<\/a>.&nbsp;She said the rioters brandished a \u201cparticularly gruesome symbol of&nbsp;anti-black terrorism\u201d by using a noose to threaten white Vice President Mike Pence. \u201cThey&nbsp;wanted to lynch him, because he&nbsp;refused to reverse an election&nbsp;that black and brown people and people of color, [Asian-American and Pacific Islander] people, had&nbsp;\u2026 won,\u201d she said without evidence.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DrIbram?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@DrIbram<\/a>: &#8220;Indeed, studies show that what singularly distinguishes <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Trump?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Trump<\/a> voters are people who somehow believe that White people are the primary victims of racism.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TheReidOut?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#TheReidOut<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/reiders?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#reiders<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KNvSFh9ILm\">pic.twitter.com\/KNvSFh9ILm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The ReidOut (@thereidout) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thereidout\/status\/1480009949489111040?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 9, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thereidout\/status\/1479252832104685575\">seconded<\/a> her assessment. \u201cJoy, I think it\u2019s really important that we not whitewash what spurred and perpetuated this Big Lie, ultimately resulting in this insurrection, and that is white supremacy,\u201d she said on \u201cThe ReidOut.\u201d Pressley went on to describe January 6 as \u201ca white supremacist, violent mob backlash to historic, record voter turnout that was driven by record numbers of black and brown voters. \u2026 It is important that we not have selective amnesia about that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepPressley?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@RepPressley<\/a>: &#8220;I think it&#8217;s really important that we not whitewash what spurred and perpetuated this Big Lie ultimately resulting in this insurrection. And that is White supremacy.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TheReidOut?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#TheReidOut<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/reiders?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#reiders<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Es8m3Z5afT\">pic.twitter.com\/Es8m3Z5afT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The ReidOut (@thereidout) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thereidout\/status\/1479252832104685575?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 7, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Later that evening, CNN\u2019s Don Lemon echoed similar talking points. \u201cCan you imagine if [the rioters] weren\u2019t white, what would have happened?\u201d he asked:<\/p>\n<p><em>We cannot forget all the racist hate on display on January 6th. I mean, there was a noose displayed on gallows outside of the Capitol. Rioters were waving Confederate flags inside the halls of Congress.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow significant is the role of white supremacy in playing out in this threat to our democracy?\u201d Lemon asked his guest, former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe. The former Obama official claimed that \u201cthe majority\u201d of January 6 rioters \u201ccome from counties where there are declining white populations,\u201d and so they had fallen for \u201cthe great replacement theory.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The rioters of January 6 apparently acted in an attempt to stop Congress from certifying the election of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris over President Donald Trump and Vice President Pence. No authority has cited racial animus as a motivating factor.<\/p>\n<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As she watched rioters break into the U.S. Capitol last January 6, MSNBC host Joy Reid has revealed her greatest worry was that the mob would vandalize the Black History Museum, because the protests were \u201cdeeply rooted in anti-blackness.\u201d \u201cI can remember every moment of that day, really, and thinking to myself, \u2018My God I &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1205432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1205432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1205432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1205432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1205432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}