Joy Reid: ‘When My Mother Came from Guyana,’ She Realized the U.S. Is Not the Land of Opportunity for People Like Us

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REID: “As somebody who’s — you know, my parents are — my mother was from the Congo and my mother was from Guyana, so they were the immigrants who came here on purpose and they got the rude awakening. My mother got the rude awakening, like, ‘Oh, it’s racist here. That’s weird.’ For some reason, she — “

COATES: “‘Nobody told me.‘“

REID: “Yeah, ‘Nobody told me this is a land of opportunity, but not for me.’”