Pleasure Reid is letting us all in on how she feels after that stunning choice from MSNBC. As we reported, the web has been in shambles since experiences surfaced that MSNBC is canceling Pleasure Reid’s standard present, “The ReidOut,” after 5 years. Instantly, of us started calling out the community, because it appears rising pressures following a drop in viewership after the 2024 election, mixed with a brand new administration that’s not significantly variety to left-leaning media, has result in one of the crucial unlucky programming selections from a cable information community in latest reminiscence.
In a video uploaded to the web, Reid went candid concerning the community’s choice, and stood ten toes down concerning her work on the sequence and all that she and her crew dropped at the desk through the years.
“I’ve been by each emotion, from anger, rage, disappointment, damage … feeling guilt that I let my crew lose their jobs,” she stated within the video, which comes from a Zoom assembly for “Win for Black Girls.” She then took the time to say that in the long run, she lands on “pure gratitude” as she is aware of deep down “her present has worth.”
“I attempt to not cry,” she continued by tears. “I attempt to not cry on TV, and I believe that is type of like me on TV, so I apologize.” She then defined that she “went exhausting” on many points. “Whether or not it was the Black Lives Matter, problems with a younger child or a mother or dad that was killed or once we opened up individuals’s eyes to the truth that Asian People had been being focused, and never simply Black of us,” she defined.
She additionally particularly known as out the present president, defending her criticism of him and his administration. “We talked about what the president is doing that’s subversive to the Structure, that’s injurious to our liberty.” Lastly, she defended her protection of Gaza amid the Gaza-Israel battle. “We because the American individuals have a proper to object to little infants being bombed and and the place I come down on that’s, I’m not sorry. I’m not sorry that I stood up for these issues, as a result of these issues are of God.”
Reid went on to have her remaining episode of TheReidOut on Monday night, spending her final hour devoting her time to her devoted viewers and instructing them on how they’ll resist within the time of a second Donald Trump presidency.
Reid has seen an immense quantity of assist on-line because the information of her exit, and it looks like many are usually not about these modifications at MSNBC, which incorporates the cancellation of Alex Wagner’s present as properly. The backlash to those selections is barely getting louder, main some to even recommend a boycott of MSNBC altogether, which if true, is not going to repair their viewership problem in any respect.
In a now-deleted put up on Threads, Ambassador Digital Journal editor-in-chief Musa Jackson wrote, “Each time MSNBC has a ‘shakeup’ the Black girl solo led present is ALWAYS the primary to go. Tamron Corridor, Tiffany Cross, Zerlina Maxwell and now Pleasure Reid. Boycott MSNBC.”
Reid has obtained huge assist from fellow journalists like Don Lemon and figures like D.L. Hughley. Hughley wrote in a put up on Instagram, “THIS IS FAR FROM THE LAST TIME YOU WILL SEE OR HEAR FROM @joyannreid …BUT IT WILL HE THE LAST TIME I GIVE @msnbc THAT MUCH ATTENTION.”
Lemon has additionally shared quite a few posts devoted to Reid, together with one defending her in opposition to MAGA trolls and haters like Megyn Kelly, who’ve attacked Reid lengthy earlier than her exit from MSNBC, and continues to take action even now.