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Showing Original Post only (View all)Joy Reid should express "gratitude" for how this country has treated her.?!!!!! [View all]
The Vice President of the United States used his social media page to tell Joy Reid, a private citizen with no connection to the government, that she should express "gratitude" for how this country has treated her.
— jenn m. jackson (@jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social) 2025-10-04T13:15:17.467Z
Black women remain the most consistent targets in all of this.
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Joy Reid should express "gratitude" for how this country has treated her.?!!!!! [View all]
sheshe2
Saturday
OP
They demand gratitude from African American people for not enslaving them all over again
Bernardo de La Paz
Saturday
#1
So I'd give this patronizing piece of excrement at least an 11 on the scale of 0-10 for outrageousness.
tetedur
Saturday
#4
Shady Vance should be grateful to his country for the privilege afforded a mediocre white man
Ocelot II
Saturday
#6
He still hasn't shown enough gratitude for being able to buy his way into a Senate seat for which he was likewise ...
eppur_se_muova
Saturday
#50
Don't blame me! I stole it from another DU'er (my apologies, as I forgot who!!!).
niyad
Saturday
#44
I don't know, but she should say more of it and the rest of us should join in as well!
W_HAMILTON
Saturday
#42