MSNBC’s Eddie Glaude Jr unloads on Mitch McConnell: Was Tamir Rice innocent until proven guilty?

MSNBC's Eddie Glaude was outraged by Republicans defending the FBI's limited report on Brett Kavanaugh's background, as well as their decision to withhold it from the public. In an appearance Thursday, he said the party was taking Americans for fools, and if they weren't stopped, we'd see the end of the American experiment.

Glaude angrily dismissed the "boys will be boys" attitude of Kavanaugh's defenders, saying that that courtesy wasn't extended to black people.

"All we have to do is think of Tamir Rice, that's all we have to do is invoke the Central Park 5," he said. "When Senator McConnell said that in this country, you are innocent before you are proven guilty or assumed to be guilty, in the African-American community, that is not necessarily the truth. It does not bear itself out at least in terms of common sense."

Glaude wasn't finished with the Senate Majority Leader. "I am sitting here viscerally angry, because Senator McConnell sat there and lied," said Glaude. "He is the poster child of a kind of the hypocrisy that is simply eroding the very fabric of this country." Glaude slammed McConnell for fast-tracking Kavanaugh's nomination, and for saying the sexual assault allegations that have shadowed the judge was nothing but "a smear".

He also accused McConnell and the GOP of playing Americans for fools. "These people think that we are Boo-Boo the fool. They think Americans are just stupid, irrespective of where we fall on the ideological line," he said. "We have to do something here, or otherwise we're witnessing the twilight of our civilization."

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