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In reply to the discussion: Nikki Haley today, "America has never been a racist country." [View all]Demobrat
(10,270 posts)44. She knows.
Shes just saying what the racist rednecks want to hear.
As if she could say anything that would convince them to vote for her.
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Oh, you don't understand! Of course there have been a few racist *people* here and there,
Ocelot II
Jan 2024
#6
If that happens Dems just have to run that foolishness 24/7, along with the Civil War silliness...
brush
Jan 2024
#13
Nikki, honey; if you get the nomination, you're going to find out just how racist this country is.
Aristus
Jan 2024
#11
She knows this fits into white evangelical religious dogma which is the GOP base.
walkingman
Jan 2024
#12
"When her family first arrived, they had trouble finding someone who would rent to them"
dalton99a
Jan 2024
#16
What the...? That campaign is doomed with spokespersons making dumb statements like that.
brush
Jan 2024
#25
American racists would be the first ones to disagree with Haley, they're very proud of their racist heritage.
sop
Jan 2024
#30
And wasn't it only last week that an IHOP waitress and her manager refused to serve a black couple--
Lonestarblue
Jan 2024
#31
yeah the Constitution literally said slaves were 3/5ths of a human being, so STFU Nikki
Takket
Jan 2024
#36
Racism has deep roots in America. Just about every group that immigrated here felt it when they first came here.
patphil
Jan 2024
#62
"South Carolina: too big to be an insane asylum, too small to be a country"
struggle4progress
Jan 2024
#70