Joy Ann Reid: J.D. Vance Got into Yale Because of DEI, They Were ‘Tired of Just Letting in White Men from NY’

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REID: “Maybe that’s the affirmative action we’ve been getting. White people who are essentially mediocre in scale compared to a black person getting the spot because they wanted a conservative. Maybe the way that J.D. Vance got into Yale is because they were tired of just letting in white men from New York, from — from all the elite schools. And they wanted an Appalachian white. That’s how that man got into Yale, I promise you. Same thing with Ron DeSantis from a small town in Florida. They wanted to just get out of the New York-D.C. matrix, Massachusetts matrix, and let somebody into Harvard and Yale who came from a different place. He came from Florida. Baby, that’s also affirmative action and DEI. So, before y’all start going crazy about DEI just meaning they let black people in just on the basis of being black, think a little more critically and think about the fact that it’s also disabled people, military veterans, people who come from Appalachia, white folks who come from Alaska and different places that they don’t normally come from. Indigenous people, Latinos, Asians.”