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“I think there’s a long history of African-Americans and other minority candidates in the Republican Party who will reassure Americans that, ‘It’s okay, we can do it.’ Be evidenced by an honest accounting of our past and present. »

— Barack ObamaAmerica’s first black president criticized not only Tim Scott, but also 2024 presidential candidates Nikki Haley for downplaying racial disparities during an interview with her former strategist and political consultant, David Asselrod. Internet Ax files. He criticized ultra-conservative Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, who may soon sign a ruling ending affirmative action programs at universities.

PS: Scott, the only black senator in the GOP, replied “The Left wants you to believe that faith in America is a sham and that progress in our country is a myth,” they said on Twitter. Hawley, former Republican governor of South Carolina replied The 44th president on the same platform “relegates minorities by labeling them as victims instead of empowering them”.

PBS: Haley’s tweet inspired African-American writer Michael Harriet with a fascinating thread in which he described how Haley’s father, who saw himself as ‘Caucasian’, benefited from liberalized immigration under Lyndon Johnson to go to America and teach an African. Before the American university sent her daughter, Nimdratha Randhawa, to a segregated “academy,” a private school in South Carolina where no blacks were admitted. Harriet argues that this upbringing explains why Nikki Haley refused to acknowledge the racist, slave-owning past that the Confederate flag symbolized.

Do you want to hear the true story of Nikki Haley?

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—Michael Harriot (@michaelharriot) June 17, 2023

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