“Mediocre White Men” Steal Other Cultures – Joy Reid

Last month, Victory Girls’ own Carol blogged about Piers Morgan taking the mickey out of Joy Reid and her race-baiting. It wasn’t enough. Joyless Reid was on a Substack, called “The Left Hook” with another racist hack by the name of Wajahat Ali. Joyless opined that “mediocre White men” like Donald Trump and Elvis Presley crib from cultures “of color”. The podcast was titled “How Mediocre White Men and Their Fragility Are Destroying America”. What a crock of hippopotamus excrement.

Listening to Wajahat Ali’s opening, I am that MAGA combing through Joy’s every word. Blech, what a disgusting thought. I am not fragile.The New York Post has an overview:

Former MSNBC anchor Joy Reid condemned President Donald Trump, Elvis Presley and others on Friday as some of history’s many “mediocre White men” whose achievements are stolen or counterfeit.

Reid criticized Trump’s review of the Smithsonian during an interview with Wajahat Ali for his “The Left Hook” substack, in an episode titled, “How Mediocre White Men and Their Fragility Are Destroying America.”

They argued that across America’s institutions, there is a phenomenon of “mediocre White men” with no actual culture of their own who co-opt the achievements of Black people to aggrandize themselves.

Ali opened the episode by talking about Trump reforming the Kennedy Center in what his critics call a hostile takeover. The institution, which in recent years had featured drag queen performances, is now being reformed to show decidedly more conservative and pro-American content.

Trump announced this year’s Kennedy Center awards last week, which he will also be hosting.

We can argue over whether Trump hosting is a super idea, but he IS President and not in any way mediocre. Here is the (pardon the expression” full episode:

According to Ali, Joy Reid nodding along, White men cannot create anything. Black and Brown people make everything better. Jesus, help me.

NEW: Wajahat Ali tells Joy Reid that “Our country is being ruined by mediocre, fragile white men.”

Ali complains that America’s “devoid of Brown superheroes” and that his people were portrayed as “sweaty terrorists” and “shop owners with funny accents.”pic.twitter.com/QBkDDiaq7o

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We love Kid Rock and Cracker Barrel, unembarrassed fact. Ali may not like our culture but it is CULTURE. Wajahat sounds like the fragile one. More from the New York Post:

“These people cannot create culture on their own,” Ali said. “Without Black people, Brown people, the DEIs, there’s no culture in America. We make the food better. We make the economy better. We make the music better. Right? MAGA can’t create culture. They got Cracker Barrel and Kid Rock.”

Reid and Ali claimed that White conservatives practice their own variant of outrage culture where they complain about what they say. “They don’t have the intellectual rigor to actually argue or debate with us, right? And what they do is they tattle and tell. They run and tell teacher that ‘the Black lady or the Brown man was mean to me.’ And that’s what they always do,” Reid said.

Reid, who initially wore a hat dedicated to the historically debatable 1619 Project, then changed to one with the letters “FDT,” took special umbrage at Trump’s efforts to review the Smithsonian’s historical exhibits ahead of America’s 250th anniversary.

“FDT” is ever so clever.

Let us remember that Reid is Harvard educated as she goes on this uneducated, ignorant and false rant:

Joy Reid absurdly claims that “Whites can’t invent anything” and says they stole all of their ideas from blacks.
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Again, from the Post:

“We Black folk gave y’all country music, hip-hop, R&B, jazz, rock and roll. They couldn’t even invent that, but they have to call a White man ‘The King.’ Because they couldn’t make rock and roll, so they have to stamp ‘The King’ on a man whose main song was stolen from an overweight Black woman,” Reid continued.

Reid was referring to “The King” Elvis Presley singing “Hound Dog,” which was first recorded by Big Mama Thornton, a Black blues singer, and written by two Jewish-American songwriters. Elvis’ version, which was more upbeat, with a faster rhythm and slightly altered lyrics, boosted his rise to fame in 1956 after his previous breakout hit, “Heartbreak Hotel” earlier that year.

Those two Jewish-American songwriters were Jerry Lieber and Mike Stoller. What do you know? Here are Lieber and Stoller on the cover of their joint autobiography with Elvis Presley:

The autobiography is available at Amazon.

To educate Joy further, Leiber and Stoller’s songbook was used as the basis for the Broadway show, Smokey Joe’s Cafe. The “On Broadway” number is a standout. Husband and I saw the revue three times.

Joy Reid stares at mediocre every day in the mirror. She can’t see it in herself. Not qualified at all to diagnose mediocrity in anyone else.

As to culture, White folk culture is at least equal to every other culture, fool. Just so you know Vikings braided their hair a long, long time ago.

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