Eddie Glaude says Vance is "tired of being called a racist" but "not necessarily tired of being racist"
Eddie GlaudeProfessor of African American studies at Princeton University and political commentator, speaking on MS NOW
Responding on MS NOW to Vance's convention remark, Princeton professor Eddie Glaude said Vance objected to being called racist rather than to being racist, and that the sentence trafficked in stereotypes. He linked it to Vance's July 2025 argument that America is more than a creedal nation, which Glaude said invoked the language of blood and soil, and argued the rhetoric casts immigrants as an infestation that sullies the body politic and frames the government's task as cleansing it.
“He's tired of being called a racist. He's not necessarily tired of being racist. Because when you flesh out that sentence, he's trafficking all sorts of stereotypes.”
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Where this statement fits
Was JD Vance right to call America “dirtier”?
At the Republican midterm convention in Dallas on September 10, 2026, Vice President JD Vance said supporters had been called racist for noticing that the country was becoming “dirtier and poorer and less safe and less prosperous.” The case documents the statement, its immediate context, and attributed interpretations of its meaning.
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The clip circulates on a third-party account rather than the outlet's own channel. The quoted wording is our transcription of the video audio and matches the verbatim transcript published by NewsBusters on September 13, 2026. The programme is MS NOW, not CNN.
Before the quotation
The host played Vance's remark from the Republican midterm convention in Dallas before asking Glaude to respond. The segment also concerned the removal of a disclaimer about the Lost Cause from a monument site.
After the quotation
NewsBusters published a verbatim transcript of the exchange the same day, criticising Glaude's characterisation. Vance has not responded to Glaude directly.
How this statement is classified
The label describes this statement's response within the context above.
Why this label?
Glaude rejects the statement and identifies it as racist in substance rather than merely careless. The closest competing label is “Challenged the characterization”, because much of his answer analyses what the words imply rather than denouncing them outright. That loses because the opening line is a direct evaluation of the speaker's conduct, not a dispute about how it has been described.
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