Nikki Haley said, "America has never been a racist country"

[HomerJS]

Is she right? IMO this is yet another right wing effort to whitewash this country's history but I will make it a poll.

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

I think a follow up question could be is Amica currently a racist country? I'll save that one for another time.

 

[brycejones]

I guess if you ignore the whole slavery thing, what we did to the native americans, chinese exclusion act, denigrating every immigrant group that wasn't English at one time or another, jim crow laws, redlining, etc, etc, etc. She could come to that conclusion.

 

[GettyRoad]

She's saying what the Republican base like Boomer Esiason, Gary Sinise, Kate Upton want to hear....so, she is a panderer.

 

[brycejones]

Fuck off Ivan

 

[feralkid]

She's a doublin' down again.

 

[IronWing]

I was just reading about a WWII Filipino U.S. Medal of Honor recipient who who decided to emigrate to the U.S. after WWII. The immigration quota for people from the Philippines at that time was 50/year. Fifty people from a nation that was a U.S. possession at the time. I think that's racist.

 

[trenchfoot]

One wonders why it's the conservatives of the nation that have a problem with racism being public knowledge that should be taught in our public schools. Golly gee whiz, could it be that their party has embraced the presence of racists in their ranks and their God blessed Orange One has anointed them patriots who will deal with those "poisoners of America's blood?"

Makes me LOL every time their political leaders cringe and squirm having to confront their issue of denying the historical facts regarding why the Civil War was fought and their attempts at whitewashing the slavery issue from the minds of our youth.

So here we have so many of the nation's racists rallying around Trump and the GOP, kowtowing to his own personal racist beliefs. That guy definitely made being a racist something to be proud of once again. So sad.

 

[darkswordsman17]

I mean, when probably the most notorious exampled of racism in human history, the Nazis, literally studied and based most of their hate machine on America's actions, not really sure how anyone can say that with a straight face. But ok. I get it, she's just gonna keep pretending she is "uniting" the country by refusing to accept the absolute faults of our society (its not even past, we're still dealing with this because of people like her that want to stick their heads in the sand they shoved up their asses).

 

[pete6032]

You mean the woman who cannot even use her full name to run for president because if she did, racist mfers wouldn't vote for her?

 

[HomerJS]

You mean the woman who cannot even use her full name to run for president because if she did, racist mfers wouldn't vote for her?

and Barack Obama didn't change his name to Barry to run for office because general public not as racist as Republicans.

 

[GettyRoad]

Conservatives truly see themselves as colorblind, it's DEI/SJW stuff that is making a lot of "normie" conservatives turn racial....in their eyes...

 

[HomerJS]

Conservatives truly see themselves as colorblind, it's DEI/SJW stuff that is making a lot of "normie" conservatives turn racial....in their eyes...

People like you who object to DEI look up these 2 pictures and they illustrate why it is a good thing.

Barack Obama's last intern class picture
Donald Trump's first intern class picture

WH intern is one of the most prestigious gigs in the country. Obama's picture looks like America. Trump's looks like 1940's America.

Here's an honest assessment from ex-Speaker McCarty AFTER he had been deposed, commenting on the Republican Party.

“I’d just become leader and I’m excited and President Trump’s there. And I look over at the Democrats and they stand up. They look like America,” he told Sorkin. “We stand up. We look like the most restrictive country club in America.”

 

[GettyRoad]

People like you who object to DEI look up these 2 pictures and they illustrate why it is a good thing.

Barack Obama's last intern class picture
Donald Trump's first intern class picture

WH intern is one of the most prestigious gigs in the country. Obama's picture looks like America. Trump's looks like 1940's America.

Here's an honest assessment from ex-Speaker McCarty AFTER he had been deposed, commenting on the Republican Party.

I don't think you understand conservatives. I live in a moderate suburb next to a conservative Northeast town. Those people don't like talking about race, they see themselves as colorblind, they don't like race, they adore LeBron James, Jalen Hurts, Jalen Brunson, sports figures that are black, etc.

They don't like DEI because they think it is racially divisive.

I am a moderate, I think DEI has some plusses, but it is causing division in the workplace, etc.

 

[nakedfrog]

She's saying what the Republican base like Boomer Esiason, Gary Sinise, Kate Upton want to hear....so, she is a panderer.

Shove Boomer Esiason up your stupid ass. Sideways.

 

[WelshBloke]

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

Eh? What? How does that make sense.
I mean government policy and law was that black people were literally worth less than white people.

 

[feralkid]

Eh? What? How does that make sense.
I mean government policy and law was that black people were literally worth less than white people.

It's easy; just follow the yellow brick pretzel.

 

[nakedfrog]

Eh? What? How does that make sense.
I mean government policy and law was that black people were literally worth less than white people.

That's the neat part, it doesn't have to make sense!
You don't get anywhere in the modern GOP by being a logical, rational, reasonable person.

 

[Zorba]

and Barack Obama didn't change his name to Barry to run for office because general public not as racist as Republicans.

Except for some reason Republicans love to call him Barry.

 

[pete6032]

Except for some reason Republicans love to call him Barry.

I hear Barack Hussain more often. As if he is somehow related to Saddam.

 

[WelshBloke]

I hear Barack Hussain more often. As if he is somehow related to Saddam.

You mean Barack HUSSAIN Obama.

 

[GodisanAtheist]

Donald John Trump. Weird the three name rule just makes him sound like a serial killer.

 

[trenchfoot]

That's the neat part, it doesn't have to make sense!
You don't get anywhere in the modern GOP by being a logical, rational, reasonable person.

Being rational and reasonable in the GOP when the crazies have taken over the party gets you in deep shit because the crazies are living in a hoax world built on a foundation of wholesale lies, specious conjecture, ginned up half truths, jaw dropping fabricated Q conspiracies, with their habit of projecting themselves to no end all wrapped up in a tightly packed ball of hypocrisy. There is no possible way a reasonable logical person well versed in the use of common sense can survive in a party where racist rapists like Donald Trump is revered and idolized as a messenger from God. The crazies would come after realists with a vengeance. Just look at what happened to Liz Cheney where she was made an example of for telling the truth about Trump and his lackeys in the Legislature.

 

[Zorba]

I hear Barack Hussain more often. As if he is somehow related to Saddam.

Yeah, I can't remember who it was, but there was someone on here that always called him Barry.

 

[WelshBloke]

Donald John Trump. Weird the three name rule just makes him sound like a serial killer.

I guess that you know this but trump is a very common synonym for fart in the UK.

 

[Jaskalas]

The idea of America is not racist.
Republicans are not the ones who would get us there.