Nikki Haley: US has never been a racist country

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CNN — 

Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley claimed the US has “never been a racist country” during an interview with Fox News on Tuesday.

Haley’s remarks were in response to MSNBC host Joy Reid’s comments on whether Haley could win the GOP nomination as a woman of color. Haley suggested Reid “lives in a different America than I do,” pointing to her own rise from the daughter of immigrants to governor of South Carolina and ambassador to the United Nations.

“I mean, yes, I’m a brown girl that grew up in a small rural town in South Carolina who became the first female minority governor in history, who became an UN ambassador and who is now running for president. If that’s not the American dream, I don’t know what is,” she said, a day after she came in third in the Iowa Republican caucuses. “You can sit there and give me all the reasons why you think I can’t do this. I will continue to defy everybody on why we can do this. And we will get it done.”

When asked by host Brian Kilmeade if the GOP is a racist party, Haley made a broader point that the US has “never been a racist country.”

“We’re not a racist country, Brian. We’ve never been a racist country,” she said. “Our goal is to make sure that today is better than yesterday. Are we perfect? No. But our goal is to always make sure we try and be more perfect every day that we can.”

“I know I faced racism when I was growing up. But I can tell you, today is a lot better than it was then. Our goal is to lift up everybody. Not go and divide people on race or gender or party or anything else. We’ve had enough of that in America,” she added.

Her campaign later affirmed Haley’s statement.

“America has always had racism, but America has never been a racist country,” a campaign spokesman said. “The liberal media always fails to get that distinction. It can throw a fit, but that doesn’t change Nikki’s belief that America is special because its people are always striving to do better and live up to our founding ideals of freedom and equality.”

Source: https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/16/politics/nikki-haley-says-us-not-racist-country/index.html

 

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The mental gymnastics she had to do to get to this talking point is just...what in the Candace Owens 

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and it's literally only to get votes. If the people she wanted the vote from recognized the reality and actual history of our country then she'd be talking completely different. 

A bozo fraud clown pandering to proud idiots

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12 minutes ago, Morphine Prince said:

Our goal is to lift up everybody. Not go and divide people on race or gender or party or anything else. We’ve had enough of that in America

lmaooo me when I lie blatantly 

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When conservatives (so not only Republicans, but conservatives in general) say stuff like "we don't want any divide between people like that!!!" they actually mean for the minorities and LGBTQ+ people to, at best, become invisible in the closet again. They never mean it in a "nice" way, they just want to uphold their own status quo. 

 

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and if you somehow don't agree with this I am sorry but you are ****ing dumb and it's working on you 

 

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15 minutes ago, weed said:

and it's literally only to get votes. If the people she wanted the vote from recognized the reality and actual history of our country then she'd be talking completely different. 

A bozo fraud clown pandering to proud idiots

And they’re just getting worse because now they’re making laws about education that will prevent things from being taught. So they’re winning all around by raising another ignorant generation. There is a reason they didn’t want people of color to be educated in the same way. Education is power. 
 

Also, didn’t know she was considered a minority. What is her heritage/race? 

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5 minutes ago, SharkmanthaC said:

Also, didn’t know she was considered a minority. What is her heritage/race? 

Well, of course you wouldn’t know because this country is so racist that she probably wouldn’t get too far with her actual name in Republican politics. 

“Haley was born Nimarata Nikki Randhawa at Bamberg County Hospital in Bamberg, South Carolina, to immigrant Sikh parents from Amritsar, Punjab, India.” 

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10 minutes ago, SharkmanthaC said:

And they’re just getting worse because now they’re making laws about education that will prevent things from being taught. So they’re winning all around by raising another ignorant generation. There is a reason they didn’t want people of color to be educated in the same way. Education is power. 
 

Also, didn’t know she was considered a minority. What is her heritage/race? 

Girl I remember when I first saw this:

they have been in the long run to destroy education and manipulate reality.. it's so scary. Portraying the transatlantic slave trade as "workers coming to work!" is crazy!

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9 minutes ago, Morphine Prince said:

Well, of course you wouldn’t know because this country is so racist that she probably wouldn’t get too far with her actual name in Republican politics. 

“Haley was born Nimarata Nikki Randhawa at Bamberg County Hospital in Bamberg, South Carolina, to immigrant Sikh parents from Amritsar, Punjab, India.” 

I was about to say, how is "Nikki Haley" brown?  She passes for white any day of the year imo

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And this was one of the 2 "sane" candidates in the primary. This is a candidate being referred to as "moderate". 

The Overton window has been shifted so dramatically to the right if we don't do something big and SOON, we'll never have an actually progressive president for another 30 years. 

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9 minutes ago, weed said:

Girl I remember when I first saw this:

they have been in the long run to destroy education and manipulate reality.. it's so scary. Portraying the transatlantic slave trade as "workers coming to work!" is crazy!

What the ACTUAL F*CK is THIS? 

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15 minutes ago, Morphine Prince said:

What the ACTUAL F*CK is THIS? 

A high school student texted the photo to his mom who posted it in 2015 and being like "...wtf is this" because it was in an official McGraw Hill textbook in Texas. They were like "omg idk how that happened!" NPR wrote about it:

https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2015/10/23/450826208/why-calling-slaves-workers-is-more-than-an-editing-error

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I work with someone who grew up around her family and he said she is one of the biggest frauds out there. And tbh, I see it and believe it. 

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Nimarata, why do you shame yourself like this?

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This b*tch is smoking something  in what world was America not racist?? It’s 2024 and America is still very racist. Sadly with people like her continuing to gain power it will be 4035 and people will still be denying racism.