On Saturday's edition of MS NOW’s The Weekend, Eddie Glaude went OFF! The normally measured Princeton professor — known for his calm, scholarly demeanor — unloaded in raw, fiery language rarely seen from him. Reacting to the Supreme Court’s recent Callais decision on the Voting Rights Act, Glaude, who is also an MS NOW analyst, openly questioned whether African Americans remain “full citizens” of the United States. He delivered a sweeping indictment of “MAGA forces,” claiming their opposition to DEI, race-based preferences in federal contracting, affirmative action in college admissions (including at Yale Medical School), and voting rights is part of a deliberate effort to "put us in our place” and preserve America as a “white republic.” Glaude’s enthusiastic support for racial discrimination in DEI, college admissions and government contracting represents the real threat to full citizenship: lowering standards for black Americans instead of expecting them to compete on equal terms. Glaude declared that MAGA forces believe “this country must be and must remain a white republic,” arguing that these moves represent an attempt to diminish black political power and “make this country white once again.” Princeton Prof Glaude's Meltdown: MAGA 'Trying to Make America White Again' pic.twitter.com/7fK9i1TuTP — Mark Finkelstein (@markfinkelstein) May 16, 2026 Glaude ended the segment by declaring that critics of racial preferences have awakened a “sleeping giant.” He predicted black voters, in a multiracial coalition, will surge to the polls in November 2026 and 2028 to “push back and push back hard.” “They’re gonna mess around and find out,” he said, smiling as he noted his own redaction of the stronger phrase. “This isn’t 1965. This is 2026, and they’re gonna see who the ‘New Negro’ — black folk, however you wanna describe us — who we are in this moment.” Capehart responded to Glaude's tirade by . . . applauding! Here's the transcript. MS NOW The Weekend 5/16/26 7:11 am EDT JONATHAN CAPEHART: Eddie, as I was listening to Melanie and thinking about the Calais decision, the Supreme Court decision, and what it's done to the Voting Rights Act. To Melanie's point the Voting Rights Act was passed sixty-one years ago, which means that America has been a true democracy, as you well know and have said, true democracy for sixty-one years. And so given the Calais decision are we, you and I, Eugene, are Melanie, are African Americans still full citizens of the United States? EDDIE GLAUDE: Well, I mean, that's, that's a wonderful and, and I think incisive question, Jonathan. And first of all, it's just wonderful to see everybody and to, to hear Melanie's fi-- fired up in this moment, which is absolutely important. Yes, I mean, on one level, from the vantage point of certain folk, they're not, they don't view us as full citizens, right? There, there are, there are forces at work in, MAGA forces at work in this country, who have as their aim and end, right, to put us in our place. Their, their, their design, whether it's an assault on DEI, whether it's an assault on federal contractors, whether it's an assault on college admissions, even Yale Medical School, right? Across the board, and now voting rights, there's a sense in which there are folks who believe that this country must be and must remain a white republic, And that begins with the diminution of black political power.That begins with putting black folk culturally and politically and socially in our place, as it were. And so we need to read this for what it is. I understand the politics, but we need to understand, I think, widen the aperture for a bit, and to understand the motivation of these folk as they seek, once again, once again, to, to, to make this country white, as, as it were. CAPEHART: Dr. Glaude, in the less than a minute that we have left, Melanie talked about folks waking up a sleeping giant. Will that sleeping giant actually wake up? Will black voters, in particular, in this multiracial coalition, rise up this November and in the November of '28 to push back, and push back hard, against what's been happening? GLAUDE: Absolutely. We're already seeing organizing in Louisiana, we're seeing it across the South, we're gonna see it today. We need to understand, remember, marches are just simply one phase in nonviolent action. We often think that marches are the end, aim, and end of political protest, but they're actually dramatic forms of political education. I'm thinking about James Lawson here. They set the stage for the organizing that's coming. We're going to show these folk that we're not just simply motivated by symbol. Remember how much we turned out for Barack Obama? Now we're gonna turn out for ourselves. We're gonna turn out in order to demonstrate that this country is ours. So, just wait. Let, let them, let, let them -- --they're gonna mess around and find out. You see how I redacted it? They're gonna mess around and find out who we actually are in this moment.  This is not 1965. This is 2026, and they're gonna see who the New Negro, black folk, however you wanna describe us, who we are in this moment. [Capehart applauds.]