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MSNBC anchor Joy Reid described how affirmative action helped her to attend Harvard while attacking the Supreme Court decision's to strike it down.

Affirmative action was the only reason MSNBC’s Joy Reid attended Harvard, the anchor insisted following the Supreme Court's ruling that affirmative action in college admissions violated the 14th Amendment's equal protection clause.

Media figures expressed outrage over the Supreme Court's ruling that U.S. colleges must reject affirmative action practices: 'Jim Crow segregation to start' next

The conservative-led Court overturned the admissions plans at Harvard and the University of North Carolina.

She was there by herself. greg: she was defending the students. that is a woman that gets paid to teach kids. by the way, there is no -- i notice that almost all athletes are conservative, and here's why, because liberal ethos does not work. you can't have affirmative action for, like, your offensive line. there are no women in the super bowl tomorrow. that's unfair. that's sexist. >> well, that professor should have been in chicago in 1968 -- greg: yeah. >> at that march. greg: all right, we've got to go. so much more. up next, will the halftime show get political? we have no idea, but we're ...