Nikki’s Racist Country

Usually, when a person says this nation isn’t a racist country, it’s coming from a racist white male Republican like Tucker Carlson. In this case, it’s coming from a dark-skinned female…trying to appeal to racist white male Republicans.

Nikki Haley went on Fox and Friends and said the United States has never been a racist country, rejecting the idea that the Republican Party would never make her, a female Indian-American its nominee out of racism. She wasn’t asked if the country was racist but if the Republican Party was racist.

Replying to Brian Kilmeade, she said, “No. We’re not a racist country, Brian.  We’ve never been a racist country.” I haven’t made up my mind yet whether Haley is being ignorant or cowardly.

Charles Barkley said Nikki Haley is “100 percent correct…if you forget about slavery, Jim Crow, segregation, antisemitism, Asian hate that’s been going on this country…America’s been smooth sailing.”

King Charles also said, “America was built on racism.” He’s right. A person has to be entirely ignorant of American history or racist himself, or herself, to deny that this country was built on racism. Even the White House and the United States Capitol were built by slaves. Mr. Barkley also said that maybe Nikki Haley believes everything is so “rosy” with black people because she’s spent the past few months in Iowa and New Hampshire where there are no black people, but she’s from South Carolina (even though Trump believes she’s from India).

South Carolina has black people. In fact, over 26 percent of the population of the state where Haley was governor is black. Haley might have a short memory but she’s the one who had the Confederate battle flag removed from the grounds of the state capitol after a racist went into a black church in South Carolina and shot and killed nine black parishioners. Does Haley not understand how that racist flag came to fly above the state house and why it remained there for 40 years?

Haley acknowledged there’s been racism, saying, “I know, I faced racism when I was growing up. But I can tell you, today is a lot better than it was then.” Well sure, you probably don’t encounter much racism in your circles when you’re worth $8 million. I’m sure Clarence Thomas doesn’t get called “boy” very often when he’s invited to the country clubs of his sugar daddies.

And the Republican Party is racist, proven by the fact that four-time indicted racist Donald Trump is the frontrunner by a very large margin. And we’re a racist nation proven by the fact that Donald Trump became president (sic) of this nation. A non-racist nation wouldn’t allow a racist to become its head of state.

I don’t believe the majority of people in this nation are racist, but the country is racist. How so? We’re still living in a system built by racism. The Electoral College was established to appease the racist slave-holding South. That same outdated Electoral College created for racists allowed a racist to assume the Oval Office despite winning a minority of votes.

The fact it took a Black Superbowl quarterback six years to get another tryout, in a league where Blacks comprise 56 percent of the players and Whites comprise at least 90 percent of the owners after being cut for protesting racism shows this is a racist country, especially after a racist president (sic) said, “Fire that sonofabitch.”

Nikki Haley understands perfectly well this is a racist country and her party is racist, proven by her unwillingness to tell her racist party that slavery was the cause of the Civil War and this isn’t a racist nation. While claiming her country and party aren’t racist, its frontrunner is using racism to attack her, using the racist trick of birtherism to attack her.

We are a racist nation. After the Civil War, the U.S. government allowed military bases to be named after Confederate generals. The South built monuments to Confederate leaders. Georgia, Mississippi, Arkansas, Tennessee, Alabama, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, and even liberal Maryland all contain homages to the Confederacy in their state flags. In 2020, over 74 million Americans voted to reelect a racist to the presidency. After the election, at least 11 states changed laws to make it harder for black people and other minorities to vote and legislators in other states tried.

In 2016, I didn’t believe everyone who voted for Donald Trump was a racist, just that racism wasn’t a dealbreaker for them. In 2020, after four years of Trump’s racism being on the international stage for all to see, voting for Trump was racism.

Racism wasn’t a dealbreaker for Nikki Haley either because she went to work for the racist. Even as she boasted about removing the Confederate flag from her state capitol, she praised it saying it represented “service, sacrifice, and heritage.”

Nikki Haley is a pathetic coward who was willing to sacrifice her principles to work for racist Donald Trump and today, afraid to be honest with the racist Republican Party.

Photo credit: All I have is that it’s an AP photo from 1965, but if someone can find the name of the photographer, please send it to me or mention it in the comments with a link to the credit.

Creative note: There are several historic photos of racism I could have used for this cartoon. I could have used one of a lynching or KKK parade but I wanted to go with John Lewis because I felt the contrast between one of the bravest persons in American history (Lewis, duh) and one of the most cowardly (Haley) was striking.

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