Nikki Haley Blames Obama, Defends Dylann Roof

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Listen: Each outstanding Republican within the nation is invested within the demonstrable lie that America isn’t a racist nation. They’re all pushing the self-serving narratives that we stay in a post-racial America, that America’s greatness outweighs its racist previous, and that Black folks aren’t hindered by racism.

GOP presidential hopeful Nikki Haley has taken this narrative to an entire new degree of unfathomable delusion, and he or she solely will get worse each time she opens her mouth about it.

Throughout the final month and a half alone, Haley has prevented naming slavery as the primary reason behind the Civil Conflict, she claimed on Fox Information that America was “by no means” a racist nation regardless of two and a half-century of Black-exclusive slavery and one other 100 years of legalized anti-Black segregation, and he or she has doubled down on all of it each time she’s had the chance to make clear issues.

However like different members of the GOP, Haley can run her absurd “America’s not racist” marketing campaign unchallenged so long as her viewers is comprised of white conservatives and their lap canines of colour, however as soon as any of them attempt to take that white and white-adjacent nonsense to a Black platform and viewers, they are going to shortly discover that they’re not in MAGA Land anymore.

So, principally, Nikki Haley went on The Breakfast Membership saying racial division in America began underneath Barack Obama and that the killings of Black folks in a Black church weren’t about racism—and he or she thought that may all be tremendous. (Spoiler alert: None of it was tremendous.)

Let’s begin together with her feedback about Obama.

Breakfast Membership co-host DJ Envy requested Haley why she’s so vehemently towards the opportunity of a Kamala Harris presidency. Basically, she answered that Harris is Black and the final time we had a Black president, America instantly fell into racial turmoil.

“With Obama, should you return. That’s after we actually began to really feel the division,” Haley mentioned. “Every thing was exaggerated with the Obama administration. It grew to become extra about gender, it grew to become extra about race, it grew to become extra about separating Individuals as a substitute of bringing them collectively,” Haley continued, claiming Obama made Individuals “really feel boxed in.”

Charlemagne that God tried to interrupt and rightfully level out that “white supremacy” was really the rationale for all of the racial division underneath Obama (which was really the identical racial division that has existed in America for 4 centuries, however no matter), however Haley was undeterred.

“Everyone is at fault. I’m not saying one particular person did this, however I’m saying underneath that administration, it actually did trigger some… You simply felt — folks felt like they had been being put in camps by that administration,” she continued.

Someone actually wants to inform Haley that historic revisionism doesn’t work as effectively when the historical past is barely a decade outdated. Right here’s what really occurred: Barack Obama grew to become America’s first Black president and white conservatives by no means let him overlook it. The truth is, Obama wasn’t simply the primary Black president, he was the primary president who was obligated to show he was president, even after he was sworn in as president. Maybe Haley has forgotten that Obama felt compelled to point out two types of his start certificates to fight lies that he was ineligible to be president—all due to racist nonsense that had extra to do with him being a brown particular person with a foreign-sounding title than anything.

Haley is conveniently forgetting that for the total eight years of Obama’s presidency, he was grappling with claims that he was secretly an Arab Muslim regardless of being neither of these issues, not that it issues as a result of there’s nothing incorrect with being Arab or Muslim—until you ask most white conservatives throughout that point who made it explicitly clear that they had been racist bigots lengthy earlier than Obama ever sat down within the Oval Workplace.

Hell, the person who spearheaded the “birther” smear assault on Obama grew to become president straight after him. And, by the best way, Donald Trump has additionally promoted and defended the identical racist birther nonsense towards Haley, however that clearly wouldn’t matter to her contemplating through the Breakfast Membership interview, she was unwilling to confess that Trump mocking her first title, Nimarata, was racist. (It additionally appears clear that she doesn’t use that title due to how overseas it sounds—which is an odd factor to really feel compelled to do in a non-racist nation.)

The truth is, Haley even implied through the interview that Trump had mounted the racial division that “began” underneath Obama, saying he gave America a “wanted self-correction.” The man who known as Mexican immigrants racists and gangbangers, instructed Black and brown congresswomen to return the place they got here from, instituted an arbitrary Muslim journey ban, led the propaganda-reliant cost towards important race principle and DEI, and tried to disenfranchise Black and brown voters by falsely claiming a authorized election was stolen from him—that Donald Trump. (To be truthful, she mentioned unhealthy issues about Trump too, however they didn’t offset the absurdity of her reward for him.)

Anyway, let’s transfer on to the half the place she took her racism apologizing to a degree that was monstrously egregious even for her. Nikki Haley actually sat there with a straight face and mentioned the 2015 killing of 9 Black folks in a Black church in Charleston by confirmed white supremacist Dylann Roof wasn’t racist, and that it was the mainstream media that “got here in and wished to outline” what occurred.

From The Messenger:

“They wished to make it about weapons, they wished to make it about racism, they wished to make it concerning the dying penalty.”

Charlamagne then interjected, saying, “it was about racism although.” Haley then pushed again, saying it wasn’t. He then responded, saying it was a “racist mass killing.”

W—and I can not stress this sufficient—TF?

Roof focused Black folks at a Black church, wrote a full 2000-word white supremacist manifesto about why he did it, and reportedly instructed his victims that Black folks had been “taking up the nation” earlier than he opened hearth—and Haley is mad on the media for assuming it was a racist act. She doesn’t seem like as bothered by Roof being “draped within the Accomplice flag” as a lot as she’s bothered by information retailers reporting it.

So, simply to recap: Slavery didn’t trigger the Civil Conflict, slavery and Jim Crow don’t show America was ever a racist nation, racial division began underneath the primary Black president and that’s why we shouldn’t have one other one, and a white supremacist killing of Black folks at a Black church wasn’t racist. My God, what’s incorrect with this girl?

When you really feel like torturing your self with roughly an hour of Haley’s off-white nonsense, you possibly can watch the total interview under.