After the alleged murderer of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was caught on Tuesday, MSNBC’s Joy Reid was extra Joy Reid-y on The ReidOut. She gleefully noted that people on the internet are not angry at the murder, and when she welcomed progressive author and radio host Thom Hartmann, wondered how such reactions could be made in the same country that just elected Donald Trump. For his part, Hartmann declared that the reason why America does not have a socialist healthcare system is because of racism.
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Diving into a history lesson, Hartmann continued:
It goes back to a fellow named Frederick Hoffman in the 1890s. It is an amazing story, I don't know if you want to get into it, but it basically starts with the story of this guy coming over from Germany… and got a gig as vice president of the Prudential Insurance Company, and in 1896 he published a book called Race, Traits and Tendencies of the American Negro, and his argument was that black people were genetically inferior. Therefore, if we simply denied them healthcare, eventually, within a few generations, all black people would die out and solve the race problem in America.
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