Taylor’s Takes: Racist Reid makes it all about George Floyd
The only manner in which Renee Good and George Floyd share any commonality is that their untimely deaths could be featured in Tangerine Kitty’s “Dumb Ways to Die” song.
Did you know the Renee Good death at the hands of ICE agent Jonathan Ross was a racial issue? I sure didn’t.
But that’s what ex-MSNBC host Joy Reid would have you believe. Renee Good was another George Floyd.
Appearing on the “Way Up with Angela Yee” podcast on Tuesday, Reid compared the two deaths at the hands of law enforcement with the straightest (pardon the expression) of faces.
“I think this is a George Floyd moment because this is one of those moments when somebody who’s supposed to be safe with law enforcement, a white woman, a Christian, a mom – she had just dropped her six-year-old off at school – who’s doing all the right things,” Reid spewed. “She is a citizen. This is not a question of her being an undocumented immigrant.”
“It was at that moment you realized nobody’s safe. White women aren’t safe,” Reid continued. “They’ll kill them, too. And, so, I think it’s a George Floyd-level moment. I think Renee Good becomes like the George Floyd of this resistance against ICE.”
The only manner in which Renee Good and George Floyd share any commonality is that their untimely deaths could be featured in Tangerine Kitty’s “Dumb Ways to Die” song.
Floyd died of a fentanyl overdose and Good of self-righteous stupidity.
The agent who fatally shot Good didn’t shoot because she was white. Just as the officer who knelt on Floyd didn’t place him under arrest because he was black.
Floyd was passing counterfeit notes and resisting arrest. Good was interfering with federal law enforcement operations and struck an agent with her vehicle.
Perhaps the common denominator amongst fatal police-involved shootings isn’t so much race but defiant, reckless actions.
Reid’s mindless monologue also took one of the most racist turns I’ve heard in the modern day.
The former host described the “training” Good had received as part of a local ICE watch group.
“What they try to do is observe what ICE is doing, film them, and try to use their white privilege, to be honest. They’re mainly white people, which is what we ask them to do, right? Because black people can’t put our bodies on the line because cops will shoot us. And so the presumption had been particularly on white women.”
The queer, black, former on-air talent with a net worth of around $4 million believes that white women are to throw themselves in between police and people of color, sacrificing themselves. White women, according to Joy Reid, are nothing more than cannon fodder.
It’s so cliché to even write, but can you imagine if someone like Greg Gutfeld went on a podcast and said that black people should be shot and killed for the sake of white people?
I must applaud Joy Reid, though. As former Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel encouraged, Reid isn’t letting a good crisis go to waste. She somehow took an issue that had absolutely nothing to do with race and made it about just that.
Thank God she’s unemployed, or else she probably would have been fired. Again.
