As MSNBC host Joy Ann Reid issued her final send-off on the ReidOut, her now former colleagues blasted the network for her "indefensible" firing. Reid hosted the show for five years. Prior to that, Reid was a weekend host of AM Joy from 2016 to 2020.

Those who play the proverbial "race card" do so because it allows them to engage in quick-and-easy emotional blackmail. After all, an instant claim of identity-based moral superiority requires far less thought than say,