The recent head-exploding statement by (finally) fired MSNBC racist Joy Reid would be an Unethical Quote of the Day if it were spewed out of the mouth of most people. Reid constantly said such disgusting things and I reflexively put her racist comments in the Julie Principle files long ago. But what she said in a conversation with fellow racist Ta-Nehisi Coates at a program at Xavier University in New Orleans raises another, broader ethics issue.

Reid said, “When my mother came from Guyana, she realized it is not a land of opportunity for people like us.” That claim, coming from someone with the American experience Joy Reid has enjoyed, is beyond insulting and false on its face: it is also incredibly stupid, even for Reid. When she was finally let go, Reid was making $3 million a year, and had been pulling down a seven figure salary for at least a decade. Her life is powerful evidence that the U.S. is a “land of opportunity” for people like her, meaning, as she did, black people. (It is also obviously a land of opportunity for America-hating, anti-white bigots who will make self-evidently false claims designed to divide the country.)

Over the weekend, another fired racist who was paid handsomely to denigrate white Americans, ex-CNN pretty boy Don Lemon, who told Bill Maher that supporting President Trump was a marker of racism, and that no rational black American was a Trump supporter.

LEMON: “I don’t think that you can be black and be a rational MAGA person.”

MAHER: “I think they [black Trump supporters] would find that very insulting.”

LEMON: “Well I mean, the truth is often insulting.”

Again, this racist, stupid man was given a coast-to-coast platform by CNN to spread his bigotry, and was paid a fortune to do it. The President, being who he is with his unfortunate proclivities, he would say something like “This should be illegal!” No, it shouldn’t be illegal. However, news organizations that deliberately seek to create hate and division in the nation should face appropriate consequences for the harm they do. Over at MSNBC, Reid may be gone but the revolting Al Sharpton still remains, and the unprofessional and assaultive Symone Sanders, arguable an even more egregious anti-white, Trump-Deranged racist than Reid, now has a prominent slot on the schedule.

A simple consistent application of professionalism, or any journalism, professional broadcasting standards at all, would purge the airwaves of such people, who engage in literally the opposite of what journalism was once supposed to do, which is to make the public better informed. In the same discussion in which Reid appeared to forget the trajectory of her own career, she also cited, as proof of the nation’s racism, that it didn’t elect this “amazing African-Asian woman” President. It is sad, but not outside the usual practice of politics, for partisan politicians to promote such obvious falsehoods as the claim that Kamala Harris, an incompetent fool, lost the election because she’s a black woman. Professional journalists and broadcast professionals, however, are supposed to place such propaganda in proper context, not promote it.

Virulent anti-black racists are not given platforms by national news organizations, and that is appropriate and responsible. Virulent anti-white racists should receive the same treatment, and the news organization that refuse to do that should be shunned and rejected.