Has America Had Enough of the Race-Baiters? –

There it was. Again. I opened my Monday to more race-raging. Joy Reid on a podcast. Great. Sure, as an particular person and as a pundit, Joy Reid no longer issues, but her kind of loopy still has currency. She was fired from MSNBC, and for good cause. She now spends her days raging on her own dime and taking her rage to podcasters who, like Wajahat Ali, nod in settlement to the utter racist nonsense she vomits out. Who is Wajahat Ali? 

Ali writes drivel for New York Times among other publications. When he isn’t praising a commie, he’s nodding in settlement and furling his forehead to feckless drivel from friends on his Substack called “The Left Hook. A political, cultural and intellectual playground for the rest of us.” 

Bold flex, Waj.  

Reid ranted on Ali’s program with her typical rage against the machine. She wore a  “FDT” (profanity Donald Trump) hat and asserted that white people cannot invent something.  

Joy Reid, who was so loopy and dumb MSNOW! fired her, goes on deranged rant, says white people can’t invent something. pic.twitter.com/FF7hrMaNTx

— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) August 18, 2025 

Reid and her comrade in race-rage, Jamele Hill, are obsessed with race. Their race-baiting and calls for that white Americans pay for sins no one dwelling dedicated are sporting skinny. They live their rage, 24/7. 

Slavery and the people who owned people in America are useless. But slavery didn’t end with the American Civil War and the thirteenth and 14th Amendments. It continued in other components of the world. In Africa, slavery wasn’t formally banned until the Seventies. Here in America, slavery was abolished in the 1860s. At the same time, half a world away, Barbary pirates had been still enslaving people. Europe was a frequent source of slaves. 

Everybody was doing it! I like this argument. https://t.co/8YmY5A721m

— Jemele Hill (@jemelehill) August 17, 2025

A few years in the past, I wrote about my great-grandfather. He was a Civil War veteran and POW. He was wounded and captured during the conflict, and spent the better half of two years in Confederate prisons. 

Crippled for life by his wounds, he spent the last months of the conflict in the notorious Andersonville prison. I not too long ago discovered that a great-grandfather on my mother’s aspect was an Iowa cavalry volunteer. He was shot in the shoulder and died at the age of 57, due fully to that wound that never healed. 

I’ve a number of ancestors who fought for the Union. Why point out any of that? Because each time a Joy Reid or Jamele Hill reaches a new stage of race-baiting or mentions that slavery was a “white man’s crime,” I really feel a obligation sure to enrage my haters with mentions of my ancestors, who suffered drastically to end slavery. I’ve blocked all of my typical cadre of haters, so they’re screaming at clouds. But I acquired more hate e mail and online hate for writing about a Civil War ancestor than something I’ve written since. 

People like Reid and Hill will scream that I can not take credit for what my ancestors did. They are proper. I’m proud of their heroism, but I didn’t endure conflict wounds combating to end slavery. They did. Not me. 

Equally, Reid (a first-generation American) has no company in what occurred 160 years in the past. Not one dwelling individual does. No one who suffered the indignities of American slavery is still dwelling. 

The death of George Floyd supercharged BLM. His death created myths about his life and death, and equally perpetuated myths about race relations. Race-grifters like authors Nikole Hannah-Jones, Robin DeAngelo and grifter extraordinaire Ibram X. Kendi did nothing to help “heal wounds”. They healed their bank accounts with quixotic nonsense and round pablum. Hannah-Jones said: 

I discover it laborious to consider that any member of the white race can have the audacity and hypocrisy to call any other tradition savage. The white race is the greatest assassin, rapist, pillager and thief of the trendy world….The crimes they dedicated had been unnecessarily merciless and can only be described as acts of the satan.

Do you are feeling the therapeutic?

Matt Walsh’s “Am I a discriminatory?” shone a highlight on DeAngelo’s recreation. Kendi’s grift continues with books like “Anti-discriminatory Baby.” The grift is elegant. A white individual can not “un-racist” themselves. That scarlet letter is there for life. There is no “cure,” but if you buy their heroin, it will ease the pain of being a racist. There is no cure, but if you buy their book for $29.99 it might help ease the pain.  Cults are like that.  

Fewer now, fortunately. Being called a “racist” used to imply one thing. Now, grifters have turned it into a meaningless, empty insult. It’s Chicken Little crying that the sky is falling.    

On Monday, my colleague Katie Jerkovich wrote about another race grifter: Colin Kaepernick. ESPN has apparently decided that his mythology isn’t price the effort or air-time. Katie’s article informed us that, maybe, ESPN has misplaced its urge for food for this explicit race-baiting revisionist pseudo-historian. 

Four years in the past, Kaepernick threw his white adoptive mother and father under the bus, casting his mother as a dimwitted dolt and his dad as a clueless clown. Almost every coach acquired the same treatment.  Perhaps ESPN was warned not to offer that storyline again. Perhaps his mother and father have had enough.  

Perhaps everybody has had enough.  

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