Joy Reid Confronts Byron Donalds Over ‘Jim Crow’ Comment

MSNBC anchor Joy Reid questioned Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) on Thursday about his recent suggestion that the Jim Crow era was better for Black families—and presented the potential Trump running mate with some unpleasant facts about the societal limitations for Black people in that era.

Donalds, at a campaign event in Philadelphia on Tuesday, had said that “the Black family was together” during Jim Crow, a period when segregation was codified by white lawmakers to prevent upward mobility for Black Americans after slavery’s demise.

“During Jim Crow, more Black people were not just conservative—Black people have always been conservative-minded—but more Black people voted conservatively,” Donalds said then.

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