Important point for both Blacks and Caucasians: YOU did not "build this country."
Whose ancestors did proportionately more is a fascinating over-beer conversation......that also has to include the Chinese, 1st Spanish conquerors, etc. But YOU didn't do shit - you went to U-Illinois with me, played some club rugby, and rushed Pike. Calm down.

Hilarious side-note here: as several of you have noted, Joy Reid's parents are foreign lords, who met in graduate school at the University of Iowa.
Her father is African; her mother is from Guyana and one of USA's better known nutritionists. She is not a descendant of American slaves.