Joy Reid, a former primetime host at MSNBC, became the focus of criticism on 18 August after social-media clips circulated in which she says white people "never invented anything" and instead "stole their ideas from Black people." Separate posts quote Reid as asserting that Black Americans created multiple musical genres, from country to rock-and-roll, before those contributions were attributed to white performers. The uproar widened after a person describing themself as a former MSNBC assistant alleged that Reid had previously delivered an antisemitic tirade blaming Orthodox Jews for the spread of COVID-19. As of early Tuesday, the network and Reid had not issued public statements addressing the latest claims, which drew condemnation from conservative commentators and outlets.