During a Fox & Friends segment last Tuesday, host Brian Kilmeade showed 2024 Republican Party presidential candidate Nikki Haley a clip of MSNBC’s Joy Reid saying that racism in the GOP will prevent a woman of color from ever being the Republican party’s presidential nominee.
Now, Nikki, daughter to Indian immigrants who whose birth name is Nimarata Randhawa, got on live tv and said, “No, we’re not a racist country, Brian. We’ve never been a racist country.”
Haley, who is a former South Carolina governor continued to seemingly downplaying racism by saying that Reid lives in “a different America” than her current reality of America.
“I know I faced racism when I was growing up, but I can tell you that 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.”
Fast forward to this past Wednesday when VP Kamala Harris, who also has South East Asian descent, was asked about Haley’s comments, she responded rather eloquently.
“The history of racism in America should never be the subject of a soundbite, or a question that is meant to elicit a one-sentence answer,” Harris began. “But there is no denying that racism has played a role in the history of our nation.”
“I think we all would agree that while it is part of our past and that we see vestiges of it today, we should also be committed collectively to not letting it define the future of our country. But we cannot get to a place of progress by denying the existence of racism.”
What are your thoughts? #BWLM💕
