Ms. Reid apologized for writing mocking claims that Charlie Crist, the former Florida governor, was gay. issues.”“The person I am now is not the person I was then,” Ms. Reid told viewers. Asked on Wednesday if she still believed she had not written the posts, Ms. Reid said: “It’s two years ago, so I don’t spend a whole lot of time thinking about that old blog. “AM Joy” was created after a previous weekend host, Melissa Harris-Perry, left MSNBC, accusing the network of sidelining her. “I am not a token, mammy or little brown bobble head,” Ms. Harris-Perry, who is Black, wrote in an email to NBC staff at the time.

Source: New York Times July 09, 2020 09:02 UTC