Nikki Haley today, "America has never been a racist country."

[Botany]

R you shitting me? Slavery, Jim Crow Laws, the genocide of the native people, segregation,
income levels, slums, the KKK, Pine Ridge S.D., any old western movie, southern strategy,
voting problems, George Wallace, Trump, red lining of neighborhoods, the U.S. military
prior to integration, reservations, life spans, manifest destiny, Rush Limbaugh take on
Donavan McNabb, gerrymandering, lynching, South Carolina’s history, Ohio 2004 voting
Cuyahoga County, sundown cities, trail of tears, President Jackson, Church shooting in
South Carolina, Obama wasn’t born in America, the old Cleveland Indians mascot, MLB,
Public Schools, Jerry Falwell’s church no need to go to church w/blacks, and ….



Don’t forget our treatment of the brown people from south of the border.

[bluestarone]

1. They have gone

FULL TILT!!! : Just need to add one more.

[Mike Nelson]

2. Hmmm...

... I would have expected her to be familiar with the original US Constitution!

[blm]

3. Banks Red lining

Separate water fountains

Wilmington

Tulsa

Orangeburg

Rosewood

[hedda_foil]

8. Redlining was federal policy!

https://www.npr.org/2017/05/03/526655831/a-forgotten-history-of-how-the-u-s-government-segregated-america

It goes back to the New Deal and went on steroids after WWII.

[niyad]

43. The Osage County murders.

[Codifer]

45. After Rail Roads were built

Chinese exclusion

"No Dogs or Irishmen"

hell; "No Dogs or Sailors" (In the mid-sixties I was paid in cash and only $2 bills so that folks in Long Beach could look in their tills and somehow hate the Navy a bit less)

As a country, we seem to have a knack for hatred and "I got mine, fuck you".

[Emile]

4. She trying to be funny?

[ALBliberal]

5. Says woman "birthered" by leading R candidate

Geez.

[Ocelot II]

6. Oh, you don't understand! Of course there have been a few racist *people* here and there,

and they weren't very nice sometimes, but this isn't a racist country. That's woke and silly. Just like this ridiculous notion that slavery had something to do with the Civil War. How absurd!

[Probatim]

67. Don't forget - those lucky enough to be slaves were taught meaningful skills.

They had a good life.

Aside from the beatings, and rape, and starvation, and forced breeding, and so on and so forth.

[brush]

7. Making ignorant statements like that is why this dummy came in third in Iowa...

and will soon be history.

[Botany]

10. It will get her Trump voters if something happens to Donny

N/t

[brush]

13. If that happens Dems just have to run that foolishness 24/7, along with the Civil War silliness...

during the general election campaign and Joe will wipe the floor with her dumb ass.

And that's what she'll get for pandering-to-white-male-magats...who btw, will never vote a woman, and a woman of color at that.

She's so lost. Was a governor and UN Ambassador but doesn't know the country at all judging by these huge gaffes.

Poor Nimrata, trying so hard to assimilate, but into the wrong party.

[SocialDemocrat61]

9. Only 3/5s a racist country

Lol

[brush]

22. Snork!

[Aristus]

11. Nikki, honey; if you get the nomination, you're going to find out just how racist this country is.

I know there are a lot of 'hold your nose and vote' types out there. But they probably don't include white male Republicans. If you even get the nom, they will slice you up one side and down the other. They would probably rather have Joe Biden for another four years than vote for a woman of color.

[NEOBuckeye]

32. Tricky Nikki is Clarence Thomas in a dress

The GOP has always had a few “uppity” token people of color around like Thomas that they tolerate as hand puppets. But that deference only lasts up to a point.

She could very easily find herself thrown under the bus by them if she goes off script or forgets who the real “masters” are.

[sueh]

56. Tricky Nikki. I like it.

[walkingman]

12. She knows this fits into white evangelical religious dogma which is the GOP base.

[sakabatou]

14. I'm sure she'll say she was joking or we misheard/misunderstood her

[msongs]

15. she the one who hides her birth name to avoid racist republicans? nt

[dalton99a]

16. "When her family first arrived, they had trouble finding someone who would rent to them"

Haley’s parents Ajit and Raj Randhawa moved to Bamberg in 1969 after living in India. Her father, Ajit Randhawa, had taken a biology professor post at nearby Voorhees College, an historically black college. Her mother worked as a school teacher before opening a clothing store “Exotica” in 1976. They replaced some of the ceiling tiles to create rows of red and blue tiles in the design of the American flag. They stapled 50 white glittery stars to the blue tiles.

When her family first arrived, they had trouble finding someone who would rent to them. They finally found a place, but its owner told the family that they couldn’t entertain blacks, Haley wrote in her autobiography, “Can’t Is Not an Option.”

https://www.postandcourier.com/news/when-nikki-haley-left-world-stage-her-small-sc-hometown-cheered-on-its-biggest-celebrity/article_7f96eeb4-cc8f-11e8-862c-fb23805c9f2d.html

[NEOBuckeye]

33. A humble person would have joined the Dems

Haley really strikes me as someone who has no humility, and no moral center. The more I learn about her, the more contempt I have for her.

[spanone]

17. Is she really that stupid?

Guess so.

[WarGamer]

19. No. It's called propaganda and lies.

[spanone]

24. She's stupid to say it. She's 1000% unqualified.

[Skittles]

65. no

but she she is well-aware of the stupidity/racism of the GOP voters

[WarGamer]

18. Look at this PATHETIC quote from her campaign.... clean up in aisle 9

“America has always had racism, but America has never been a racist country,” a campaign spokesman said.

[brush]

25. What the...? That campaign is doomed with spokespersons making dumb statements like that.

But it's just echoing her own statements.

Welcome to 3rd place in Iowa, Haley. I thought you could at least beat that lift-wearing, awkward-in-his-own-skin DeSantis character.

[Renew Deal]

20. It raises the question. Is Nikki Haley stupid?

Because even the racists she’s trying to court know she’s dumb or lying.

[NonPC]

71. She's Not Racist -- Just Pandering to the Racists

She's using the Fox News formula -- be hot enough so the idiot white males will stare at you and eventually absorb your propaganda.

[Cha]

21. Just how full of Shit is ol Gaslit Haley?

[Lulu KC]

23. Oh for the love of Pete!

This is going to be a long election season.

[thesquanderer]

68. I suspect a short one for Nikki Haley, though. (n/t)

[BaronChocula]

26. "Love me bigots!

Please love me!"

[malaise]

27. Brown people south of the border

The brown people who are native to the country have a story to tell

[Faux pas]

28. Yeah Sure Ya Betcha

Is that why she calls herself nikki???.

[BootOutTheGoons]

29. She forgot a word

America has never not been a racist country

Now Darling Nikki and her party of goons are making it worse

Kick their asses in November, boot them all out

[sop]

30. American racists would be the first ones to disagree with Haley, they're very proud of their racist heritage.

[Lonestarblue]

31. And wasn't it only last week that an IHOP waitress and her manager refused to serve a black couple--

because they were black? No siree, no racism in this country. What does she think she’s accomplishing with such drivel, other than people thinking she’s a complete idiot! Evidently, that segregation academy she attended provided very little education.

[Lunabell]

34. Wow.

These people are deranged.

[NEOBuckeye]

35. I guess this is how she won S. Carolina? n/t

[Takket]

36. yeah the Constitution literally said slaves were 3/5ths of a human being, so STFU Nikki

[BigMin28]

37. Apparently Nimrata

has never watched what happened at Central High School in Little Rock in 1957. America's racism was fully on display. She knows though, but as usual, all repubs can do is lie, lie, lie.

[agingdem]

38. and the color of the sky in her world is...??

but then again the Civil War was an economic divide...and slavery was a trade school for Blacks..a leg up, if you will....cannot stand that shallow woman...

[niyad]

39. I am going to go throw up now. Thank goodness I have not yet had dinner.

[bpj62]

40. Those who forget History....

She was the Governor of a state that wanted to secede in 1832 over the issue of tariffs on English goods. The very same state that 30 years later lead the secession movement in the South and in its articles of secession named slavery as the main reason for leaving the union. Finally in 1951 the South Carolina legislature proudly decided to raise the Battle Flag of the Army of Northern Virginia over the state capital as a giant middle finger to the Civil Rights movement that had started after WWII.
Now she will tell you that she had the flag removed from the Capitol building but it is still on the grounds of the Capitol. And finally as a prior poster stated she does not go by her given Indian name and that is for purely political reasons.
What a fraud.

[JT45242]

41. Tell me why you don't use given name, namarata?

Seriously, you bragged about making a website dedicated to DeSantis lies and this comes out of your mouth.

WTAF, you brain dead piece of crap.

[republianmushroom]

42. What rock has Ms. Haley been under all her life.

[Demobrat]

44. She knows.

She’s just saying what the racist rednecks want to hear.
As if she could say anything that would convince them to vote for her.

[PTL_Mancuso]

46. Philadelphia!

Mayor Frank Rizzo: Fire hoses! German Shepherds!

Wilson Goode: Bombs!
The Move Bombing (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985_MOVE_bombing)

Summary:

Date May 13, 1985; 38 years ago
Target MOVE members
Attack type Air Bombing with C4, police brutality[1]
Weapons Tovex, C-4
Outcome Philadelphia Police Department found liable in federal court for excessive force and unreasonable search and seizure
Victims 11 killed, 250 people made homeless
Perpetrators Philadelphia Police Department
Litigation City of Philadelphia ordered to pay $1.5 million in 1996 to a MOVE bombing survivor and the families of people killed,
$12.83 million awarded in 2005 to residents who were made homeless.

[AllaN01Bear]

47. welcome to the meanest place on earth.

a neat clinitian said that .hem and sonrk.

[ms liberty]

48. It was literally written into our frickin' Constitutuon, Nikki

And it is an integral part of our history since our arrival on this Continent.

[Gore1FL]

50. If you don't count 1776-2024. nt

[NoMoreRepugs]

51. That Nikki was one dumbass wannabe.

[ecstatic]

52. Welp. She's done. Just like tiny d and drump. Unelectable. nt

[Goodheart]

53. Is she really that fucking stupid?

[sop]

58. Well, she did say the Civil War wasn't about slavery.

[maxsolomon]

54. I hate to ask, but what's the context?

Cons have all kinds of rhetorical gymnastics they use to make absurd-on-its-face statements like this. You only provided the outrageous portion of what was probably a speech.

Was she saying racism isn't explicit in the Constitution?

[Rebl2]

55. I am sure

when she was young she faced racism herself. What a foolish thing to say.

[democrank]

57. Nikki Haley has to spew this Cult Crap

if she wants to be a MAGAT magnet.

[vanlassie]

59. Tim Scott said that not too long ago....

[not fooled]

60. OK, Nimrata, then why don't you go by your real name?

When she does I'll believe her nonsense.

[PortTack]

61. Ding ding ding...what an idiot she is

[patphil]

62. Racism has deep roots in America. Just about every group that immigrated here felt it when they first came here.

It never completely goes away. Look how long it took for a Catholic to be elected President; for a black man to be put on the Supreme Court; for a black man to be elected President; for a black woman to become vice-president; for a Native American to be a cabinet member.
There still hasn't been a Native American on the Supreme Court, or a female President.
The list of first times, and still not's is very long.
Also, the list of derogatory nicknames of a racial, ethnic or religious nature is long and still comes into play.

Now the Republican Party wants to deny it's existence, while embracing it's very core. Nikki Haley should know better, but...Republican.

[Joinfortmill]

63. She hasn't got a chance in hell

[Ohioboy]

64. Nikki Haley doesn't know my old boss

That guy used to use the N word all the time and told racist jokes. I know he wasn't smart enough to make up all the jokes he told, so there must have been a few racists out there making them up.

[LoisB]

66. In what America has she lived?

[Ray Bruns]

69. I don't know, but it wasn't the one on this planet.

[LoisB]

72. Sure wasn't.

[struggle4progress]

70. "South Carolina: too big to be an insane asylum, too small to be a country"