MSNBC’s Joy Reid: Trump Is the ‘Republican George Wallace’
EXCERPT:
REID: “Yeah. I mean -- the reality is unless you lived in New York in the 1980s and experienced Donald Trump, most people had no idea. You know, every friend that I have that is black watched The Apprentice. I was the only one who didn’t because I actually moved back here as a teenager in '88 and experienced Howard Beach and Bensonhurst and Donald Trump. And so, the Donald Trump I saw was the Central Park 5 guy. Those kids were my age, a little bit younger than me, so I experienced him as this horrible man and I never wanted to watch The Apprentice but no one outside of New York really knew that. And a lot of what Donald Trump did in Florida was he had all of the rappers, everyone was at his mansion at Mar-a-Lago because he wanted to put a thumb in the eye of the Toni -- you know, the upward people that looked down on him. Donald Trump has two kinds of visions of black people: one, celebrities and sports stars that he wants to be around. And two, every other black person that he thinks is beneath him— “
