CNN: ‘Nikki Haley Says US Has ‘Never Been a Racist Country’

Source:CNN- Nikki Haley needs to stop walking around with her own political gun. She own has so many toes that she can shoot off in this campaign.

Source:The New Democrat

“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.”

Haley previously faced criticism for failing to mention slavery when initially asked by a voter about the cause of the Civil War during a town hall last month. Following mounting backlash, Haley said “of course” slavery was the cause of the Civil War, adding she assumed it was a “given.”

From CNN

“In an interview with Fox News, GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley said “we are not a racist country.” Democratic strategist and CNN political commentator Karen Finney, Republican strategist Doug Heye, and Axios senior contributor Margaret Talev join CNN’s Jake Tapper to discuss.”

Source:CNN- Nikki Haley being interviewed by Dana Bash yesterday.

From CNN

From what I wrote about Nikki Haley back in October:

“Also, between Joe Biden and Nikki Haley, would Trump voters turn out and vote for her? They tend not to turn out and vote in big numbers, when they’re cult leader (sometimes you have to be frank) isn’t on the ballot. And would they vote for someone whose not just a woman, but a Never-Trumper, whose also not from their race, ethnicity, generation, culture, etc?

And if she goes out-of-her-way for their vote and just tries to appeal to those voters, would that turn Independents off for her and also turn out more Democrats against her?”

From The New Democrat

Nikki Haley is not a MAGA candidate. (Also in the news: Wisconsin doesn’t get hurricanes in January) All you have to do is to look at her to see that. Plus, her political background suggests that she’s not even a Trump voter, let alone a MAGA political activist. And yet she feels the need to try to politically play to people that probably would deport her (even though she was is an American citizen who was born in America) instead of voting for her for President.

From what I said about Nikki Haley back in December:

“I wasn’t going to vote for her anyway, if it was a choice between her and Joe Biden. But she just reenforced not just to Democrats, but Independents, as well as Conservative Republicans, (you know, normal Republicans) who are suffocating in Trumpland right now, hoping for hope that there’s any shot in hell, that they’ll be able to vote for anyone other than Donald Trump or Joe Biden for President in 2024, that she’s still a late night TV host, looking for a prime time spot, but simply isn’t ready big leagues yet.

Does Nikki Haley really think that even in her home state of South Carolina, that that the far-right, is going to vote for a South Asian, as well as East Indian-American woman, a gen-xer, a daughter of immigrants, for President of the United States? Of course not. So why does she feel the need to try to get those folks who live in Fantasy Land ideologically and culturally?”

From The New Democrat

From what I said about Nikki Haley a couple weeks ago:

“Along with Nikki Haley saying that she had “Black friends growing up in South Carolina”, the other thing that I take away from Nikki Haley’s response here, is her responding to what Chris Christie said and just trying to put him off that he’s from New Jersey and of course it’s easy as a Republican to politically be against slavery and acknowledge that of course the Civil War was about slavery, when you are from New Jersey or some other big, blue state. But he should try walking in her political shoes as a South Carolina Republican. She’s basically saying that she’s from South Carolina and you can’t afford to be politically tough on the Confederacy and Confederates, when you are a South Carolina Republican. I think that’s what she’s saying politically here, if I were to try to translate her response politically.

Yes, she cleaned up her response and had a more intelligent and stronger answer. But when a drunk driver gets into an accident, the easy thing to do is to come to the realization that you shouldn’t driven drunk in the first place. The point is that you shouldn’t have made that colossal mistake in the first place. A strong, honest, and, moral, political leader, who wants to be President of the United States, doesn’t shoot her foot off, when asked a basic question like what was the American Civil War about.”

From The New Democrat

Nikki Haley to Fox News anchor Brian Kilmeade: “We’re not a racist country, Brian. We’ve never been a racist country. Our goal is to make sure that our day is better than yesterday. Are we perfect? No.”

Nikki Haley’s attempted cleanup of her political oil spill on Fox News: “America has always had racism, but we’ve never been a racist country. The liberal media always fails to get that distinction.”

We’ve never been a racist country? Did Nikki Haley learn anything about American history growing up on South Carolina? Is American history even a requirement to graduate high school there? Africans were brought over here like animals as slaves, to serve Anglo-Saxon men from Britain, who were now in America. African-Americans were segregated by law in America, simply because of their race. As well as denied the ability to get an education, get loans, own homes, and even vote.

She’s right that America is not a racist country. The country itself is not racist. But, to argue that America has never been a racist country, is to also deny that Planet Earth is round, or that water is wet, fire is hot, etc. You would either have to be coming to America from another planet, knowing nothing about this country, and spending your first day here, or just be a total moron who knows nothing about American history. And perhaps those are the voters she’s trying to play too: illegal aliens from other planets and total morons.

I’ll just close this with what Conservative Republican political strategist Shermichael Singleton said about Nikki Haley’s civil war comments from back in December:

“As an African-American who happens to be a Conservative, I thought her answer was quote despicable and embarrassing

Whatever bump that she could’ve received from John Sununu, whatever bump that she could’ve received from the last several weeks now, I think that’s all gone, I think it’s over for her. You have a presidential candidate whose unable to answer a complicated question because they’re trying to placate to a base who in my opinion wouldn’t vote for her anyway. So why be so uncomfortable telling the truth? The Civil War was about slavery and any comparisons that one would like to make about tradition, is odious to me. If you can’t be factual about history, I question your judgment to make decisions about the present that would ultimately make the future.”