MSNBC’s Joy Reid is out with a new book on Medgar Evers, a civil rights activist who was assassinated in 1963, and his wife, Myrlie. Her book tour took her to CBS and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Tuesday, where she would compare her favorite politicians, such as Liz Cheney, Adam Kinzinger, and the Tennessee Three, to Evers by noting their “courage.”
Colbert asked, “I’m curious what you learned in your research for this book that is applicable to our country and the divisions that we have today.”
Reid replied, “I would say what I learned was about courage and I think that is the other theme in this book. You think about today who are afraid to stand up to a former reality TV show star president because of a tweet. And yes, indeed people do face death threats if you speak against him, but a lot of the people who were facing…
