Joy Reid Claims Anti-Civil Rights Dems Became Republicans

Alex Christy | June 9, 2020
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[See NewsBusters for more.] During MSNBC's Tuesday coverage of George Floyd's funeral in Houston, Joy Reid joined Craig Melvin to talk about the history of race and racial progress in American history. According to Reid's version of history, Democrats who opposed the 1964 Civil Rights Act, became Republicans, implying that the GOP of today is a racist party.

Reid explained, "It was Lyndon Johnson completing the work that Kennedy began. That act would have been a 1963 act had it been able to go through. But the resistance of white segregationists, at the time white Democrats in the south, people who ultimately moved into the Republican Party in outrage over the betrayal by Lyndon Johnson, who betrayed his region and his race by pushing through the martyred Kennedy's bill after the martyrdom of so many black men and women."

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