Glad to see AM Joy,

[mia]

and to have found these videos, as I missed this morning's show.

Joy Reid Hosts Panel of LGBT Activists to Talk About Blog Posts: ‘Feel Free to Grill Me’ Joy Reid.
Joy Reid opened her Saturday morning MSNBC show with (something of) a mea culpa, after a trove of homophobic blog posts were unearthed from her old blog, posts she claims were fabricated and inserted onto her website in a campaign to smear her reputation.

“I genuinely do not believe I wrote those hateful things because they are completely alien to me,” Reid said. “But I can definitely understand, based on things I have tweeted and I have written in the past, why some people don’t believe me. I have not exempt from being cruel or hurtful to the very people I want to advocate for. I own that. I get it. And for that I am truly, truly sorry.”

After that opener, Reid introduced her panel for the first half of her show AM Joy, which included Jonathan Capehart, columnist for the Washington Post, Chase Strangio of the ACLU’s LGBT & AIDS Project, Zeke Stokes of GLAAD, Sarah Scanlon who worked on LGBTQ Outreach for the Bernie Sanders campaign, and Diego Sanchez of PFLAG — the organization that rescinded an award from Reid.

“I wanted to try to take this thing and try to make something positive out of it,” Reid said. “Feel free to grill me, you absolutely have the right to do.”

“But I also want to talk about the ways in which — some of the things that even I have said and done really do land and impact people in the real world,” she said....

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1. Great OP. Joy Reid just doesn't deserve the "Roger Stone" treatment she's getting from progressives.

[question everything]

7. I will dare express my thinking

I am not an African American, so do not know first hand about family tradition and religious life in African American families.

But I remember California Proposition 8 from 2008 that made same-sex marriage illegal. I remember how many were surprise and disappointed that the measure was supported by so many African Americans. Thus, I wonder whether growing up with strong belief in what the bible says, has influenced, perhaps even without thinking, the opinions of many, including Joy, on this topic.

Glad that she apologized and is going forward. I think that one of her guests - did not watch much - was WaPo Jonathan Capehart who is gay.

[marble falls]

8. I think you got it exactly right.

[BobTheSubgenius]

9. I totally believe what you say.

I am also lacking first-hand experience of either facet of this, being neither gay nor AA. If a narrative about this is true, being gay is more a source of shame than in the Caucasian population.

I fully acknowledge that that assertion could be wrong, as, once again, I have no first-hand knowledge, and people say all kinds of things that are false or misleading.

[mia]

3. Are there other threads about this morning's show?

Must have missed them.

[mia]

4. Just found the other threads.

Glad to see so much support for her.

[oasis]

5. Back to reality kick.

[RKP5637]

6. She did a great job on this morning's show. I support her!!!! n/t