During MSNBC's election coverage on Wednesday, MSNBC host Joy Reid said that "there is this sort of trying to be super American when people come here, because I know some African immigrants who are all the way Trump. And it's this idea of I want to be with the side that's waving the biggest flag, I want to fit in. And there is a huge element -- to be honest -- of anti-blackness in a lot of this, anti-black Americanness specifically."