MSNBC’s Joy Reid: “Education” is “code” for white parents who do not want race to be taught in schools

MSNBC’s Joy Reid called education a “code” for white parents who do not want their children to be taught about race while reporting on Tuesday’s Virginia gubernatorial election.

Citing baseline polls, Reid found that while the coronavirus was a low-profile issue for Virginia voters in that election, education was a priority. Reid used aerial quotes when he said the word education.

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She called it “code for white parents who don’t like the idea of ​​teaching races”.

Aimee Allison (L), founder and president of She the People, opens the She the People Presidential Forum with political scientist Joy Reid on April 24, 2019 in Houston, Texas, USA. REUTERS / Loren Elliott
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“Unfortunately, race is just the most tangible tool in the toolkit used by the Democratic Party during the Dixiecrat period,” she continued. “And now the Republican Party is just mighty.”

Virginia voters told channels like CNN and MSNBC that the school issue was one of the main driving forces behind them to vote for Republican Glenn Youngkin. Youngkin sided with parents who were concerned about the progressive agendas of their school boards, which included graphic reading materials and the features of critical racial theory.

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McAuliffe left nothing to the imagination when he told voters in his debate against Youngkin, “I don’t think parents should tell schools what to teach.” That comment, one voter told MSNBC, “harms” the Democrats’ chances.

Republican gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin, right, speaks to supporters while Lt. Governor Candidate Winsome Sears, left, listens during a rally in Fredericksburg, Va., Saturday, October 30, 2021. Youngkin is named after former Democrat Governor Terry McAuliffe in. make the November election. (AP photo / Steve Helber)

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Reid’s colleague Nicolle Wallace said Tuesday that the CRT was “fake” as she mourned the impact on voters.

“He worshiped at the altar of Donald Trump … he didn’t really put much distance between himself and Donald Trump about the big lie or the deadly uprising,” Wallace said of Youngkin. “So I think the really ominous thing is that critical racial theory, which is not real, turned the suburbs 15 points into the Trump-backed Republican.”

Voters await their ballots at George Marshall High School on Election Day in Falls Church, Virginia, November 2, 2021. Skirmish of error is considered the first major test of President Joe Biden’s political brand. (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP) (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP via Getty Images)
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Several other CRT proponents have suggested that the theory isn’t in schools. But the phrase “Critical Race Theory” appears on the State Department of Education website, and reports have found that the Virginia Department of Education published a book called We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom, “in March 2020, telling teachers that they“ must adopt theories like Critical Racial Theory ”.