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Ms. Toad

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17. As to the name change -

Reply to blm (Reply #4)

Tue Aug 25, 2020, 06:15 PM

Aug 2020

Virtually all of my Asian students (especially Chinese and Korean) use anglicized names. I've asked them not to use a name they are uncomfortable with jsut to make life easier for me, and have expressed genuine interest in learning the correct pronunciation. The pretty much universal response is that they prefer a name people generally pronounce correctly. (I'm sure some - even many of them - would agree that America is racist - but that is not related, in their minds at least, to racism.)

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Nikki Haley: "America is not a racist Country" [View all] 634-5789 Aug 2020 OP

Yeah. Sure it's not. SoonerPride Aug 2020 #1

She sooo wants to be accepted by white racists JI7 Aug 2020 #2

Hope someone digs up the tape where she said her family had faced malaise Aug 2020 #3

Then why did she change her name to run as a Republican. blm Aug 2020 #4

As to the name change - Ms. Toad Aug 2020 #17

Nikki is not an uncommon Indian nickname. nsd Aug 2020 #19

... Faux pas Aug 2020 #5

True, but it is a country filled with racists. eom guillaumeb Aug 2020 #6

racism by denial. all claims of racism are hereby deemed meritless, because reasons. unblock Aug 2020 #7

And she said it then shared how racism had effected her family. Nexus2 Aug 2020 #8

Affected PSPS Aug 2020 #13

That's like saying Trump doesn't have an orange face. Chichiri Aug 2020 #9

What nikki haley really thinks of trumphuck Cha Aug 2020 #10

She is right. The majority of the U.S. is not a racist country. Then there is that 30% and they vote LizBeth Aug 2020 #11

She's absolutely correct. America is not a racist country ... for her. PSPS Aug 2020 #12

The country is not. Republicans are. C_U_L8R Aug 2020 #14

... Nevilledog Aug 2020 #15

Never forget Nikki Haley in 2016: good find! nt crickets Aug 2020 #20

Coming from a woman who likely would have been allowed to drink from the "white fountain" misanthrope Aug 2020 #16

Nikki reminded me so much of Dolores Umbridge as she told that lie Hekate Aug 2020 #18

She's laying a trap. Baked Potato Aug 2020 #21

The black man she appointed to the Senate edhopper Aug 2020 #22