{"id":2262283,"date":"2024-06-07T13:27:11","date_gmt":"2024-06-07T17:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joy-reid-clashes-with-byron-donalds-on-jim-crow-comments\/"},"modified":"2024-06-07T13:27:59","modified_gmt":"2024-06-07T17:27:59","slug":"joy-reid-clashes-with-byron-donalds-on-jim-crow-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joy-reid-clashes-with-byron-donalds-on-jim-crow-comments\/","title":{"rendered":"Joy Reid confronts Byron Donalds over Jim Crow remarks"},"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\">18<\/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-clashes-with-byron-donalds-on-jim-crow-comments%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=2262283&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>Overt oppression they faced.<\/p>\n<p>Joy \u2062Reid from MSNBC got into a heated debate \u200dwith Congressman Byron\u2064 Donalds when he made comments about \u200dthe black marriage rate being higher during the Jim Crow era. His comments were perceived \u2062by the Left as implying that \u2062the laws during that time were\u2062 beneficial for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dems-lost-all-credibility-on-social-distancing-after-biden-celebrations\/\" title=\"Dems Lost All Credibility On Social Distancing After Biden Celebrations\">black people<\/a>, even \u2064though they were\u2062 facing oppression. This sparked a debate between Reid and Donalds, with Reid challenging his views on the matter. The \u200dincident\u200b has since gained \u2063attention and sparked \u2064discussions about race relations in\u2062 America.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_79\">\n<p>Things got rather heated when MSNBC host <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/joy-ann-reid\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Joy Reid<\/a> challenged Rep. <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/byron-donalds\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Byron Donalds<\/a> (R-FL) Thursday following his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/3029355\/hakeem-jeffries-byron-donalds-jim-crow-black-families\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"comments\">comments<\/a> on whether life was better during the Jim Crow era.<\/p>\n<p>Donalds was at an event in Philadelphia this week when he discussed how the black marriage rate was higher back then than it is now. His comments have come under fire by many on the Left, who have interpreted the remark to be about how Jim Crow laws benefitted black people at the time despite the fact that they kept them in segregation and prohibited them from voting. Reid tried to extract a further explanation during the segment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDuring Jim Crow, could your family have existed? You are in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exposing-the-lefts-dishonesty-about-critical-race-theory-criticism\/\" title=\"Exposing The Left\u2019s Dishonesty About Critical Race Theory Criticism\">interracial marriage<\/a>. Your wife is a white conservative activist. Could your family have existed at all during Jim Crow?\u201d, she asked. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, it could not, Joy, and we all know that,\u201d Donalds replied, referencing the law against interracial marriage at the time. \u201cBut that\u2019s why I am blessed to live in America today as opposed to America during that time. But we cannot ignore the realities of not having fathers in homes. That is important to our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jesuits-pledge-100-million-for-slavery-reparations\/\" title=\"Jesuits Pledge 0 Million For Slavery Reparations\">black <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/disney-fires-actress-gina-carano-after-post-comparing-hating-someone-over-politics-to-nazi-germany\/\" title=\"Disney Fires Actress Gina Carano After Post Comparing Hating Someone Over Politics To Nazi Germany\">people today<\/a><\/a> and all people today as we move forward toward a better America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat I\u2019m grateful for is we do not live in the Jim Crow era and that fathers do not face that kind of lynching,\u201d Reid said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo am I. I\u2019m very grateful of that,\u201d Donalds said. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cPerhaps don\u2019t bring up Jim Crow when you\u2019re trying to make that example,\u201d Reid said.<\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Donalds was raised by a single mother. Both of\u00a0Reid\u2019s parents were college graduates, meeting as graduate students at the University of Iowa.\u00a0Reid\u2019s mother went on to become a college professor while Reid was in high school after she divorced Reid\u2019s father, who returned to the Congo.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.census.gov\/library\/stories\/2022\/07\/marriage-prevalence-for-black-adults-varies-by-state.html#:~:text=By%202020%2C%20these%20figures%20rose,and%2047.5%25%20for%20Black%20women.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Census Bureau\">Census Bureau<\/a>, over a third of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/anaylsis-more-than-half-of-joe-bidens-twitter-followers-are-fake-and-were-just-created-in-january\/\" title=\"Anaylsis: More Than Half Of Joe Biden\u2019s Twitter Followers Are FAKE and Were Just Created in January\">black men<\/a> and over a quarter of black women were never married in 1970. In 2020, these percentages increased to\u00a051.4% for black men and 47.5% for black women.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MSNBC host Joy Reid confronted Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) after he suggested at a Philadelphia event that life during the Jim Crow era was better, citing higher black marriage rates then compared to now. 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