tsonfeir ,
@tsonfeir@lemm.ee avatar

She’s looks exactly like Nimrata Nikki Randhawa.

homura1650 ,

Let me share a passage from the dissent in a Supreme court case known as Plessy v Furguson. The majority of the court had just ruled that it was OK to force blacks to use seperate railcars from whites. Not only that, but it was OK for for the government to force railway companies to have such a rule. With this backdrop Justice Harlan spoke in dissent, arguing for true equality under the law. In the screed for justice, he wrote:

There is a race so different from our own that we do not permit those belonging to it to become citizens of the United States. Persons belonging to it are, with few exceptions, absolutely excluded from our country. I allude to the Chinese race. But, by the statute in question, a Chinaman can ride in the same passenger coach with white citizens of the United States, while citizens of the black race in Louisiana, many of whom, perhaps, risked their lives for the preservation of the Union, who are entitled, by law, to participate in the political control of the State and nation, who are not excluded, by law or by reason of their race, from public stations of any kind, and who have all the legal rights that belong to white citizens, are yet declared to be criminals, liable to imprisonment, if they ride in a public coach occupied by citizens of the white race.

Thats right folks. There was a period of us history where even your pro equality arguments were steeped in racism

More to the point. Even if you (for some reason) set asside the hole issue of slavery; there is still the whole Jim Crow era, where we litterally codified rasism into law.

Tristaniopsis ,

What fucking planet is she on? Because it certainly isn’t the Earth that I’m familiar with.

BeautifulMind ,
@BeautifulMind@lemmy.world avatar

Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley claimed the US has “never been a racist county” pandered to racists during an interview with Fox News on Tuesday.

fixed it

drdabbles ,
@drdabbles@lemmy.world avatar

While everybody else is seeing this for the absurd, ignorant, revisionist history horse shit that it is, I choose to see this as an example of how women are equal to men. Nikki has single handedly proven that women can be just as stupid as any man carrying water for the white supremacists.

billiam0202 ,

Quick question there, Nikki:

If the US has "never been a racist country" why did it take us 232 years to elect a non-white person as President? Why did it take a Constitutional amendment to allow non-white Americans to vote? Why did Congress have to pass laws telling white people to serve Black people in their stores, allow Black people to go to their schools, and allow Black people to live in their neighborhoods?

atp2112 ,

Why did we have to fight a war to stop people from owning people of a different race?

pingveno OP ,

Why did it take a Constitutional amendment to allow non-white Americans to vote?

For that matter, why did it take a Constitutional amendment to consider Black Americans as citizens?

LEDZeppelin ,

Then why is Nimrata Randhwa running this race as “niKKKi Haley”?

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

Someone in another thread said it's just her middle name and she's just going by her middle name. I wonder why.

HububBub ,

Then why did she feel it was necessary to whitewash her own name?

theodewere ,
@theodewere@kbin.social avatar

did Nikki actually grow up on a plantation with slaves? because she sounds like she grew up on a plantation with slaves..

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

Close. She grew up in North Carolina where she went to a segregated private school.

https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/01/life-at-the-segregation-academy

Zitronensaft ,

“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 likely wouldn’t have been the “first female minority governor in history” hundreds of years after the founding of the US if we didn’t have a long history of racism and sexism in the country. Nice of her to include some contradictory evidence right in her statement.

Seraph ,
@Seraph@kbin.social avatar

Is anyone surprised these people know literally no US history? That's how they got there in the first place.

ichmagrum ,

Ignorant or malicious? And is the distinction important?

bender223 ,

Oh, she's a comedian now 🤣

RizzRustbolt ,

Nikki... Why is there a North and South Carolina?

PeepinGoodArgs ,

Disagreements over states rights, probably.

Maeve ,

And what rights were those?

Deceptichum ,
@Deceptichum@kbin.social avatar

Surely it was over states ups and downs? Or else it’d be East and West Carolina.

gregorum ,
@gregorum@lemm.ee avatar

Virginia and West Virginia

chaogomu ,

They were difficult to administer together?

Both had slavery, but South Carolina was a shipping hub for the British in their exploitation of the Caribbean. They had a huge slave trade.

The north on the other hand was poorer, and was mostly populated with farmers. (many of whom used slave labor).

So the colonies were split apart in 1712. The split was completely peaceful. After all, a colonist was considered a subject of the crown first and foremost. At least until some got a bit uppity about 50 years later.

The split you were probably thinking about was Virginia and West Virginia. That one was 100% a split over slavery at the start of the civil war.

RizzRustbolt ,

Ummm... partial credit.

You should have mentioned that those poorer northern farmers were mostly former indentured workers who weren't allowed to resettle in the southern areas due to stigma against them.

Of course, Ms. Haley would probably also mention that that was pre-revolution and thus doesn't really count.

She's also stated that the civil war was a states rights issue (blerg) and also doesn't count.

You know what would count, though?

The Asian Exclusion acts of 1875, 1885, 1917, and 1924. All of which had popular support.

xor ,

strong disagreements over state's rights vs federal government /s

gregorum ,
@gregorum@lemm.ee avatar

And a Virginia and West Virginia?

PugJesus ,
@PugJesus@kbin.social avatar

Like, from day 1 our country was a big institutionalized fight between racists and anti-racists, and the moment anti-racists looked like they might not lose horribly, the racists started a civil war over it. And then after the anti-racists won the war, we lost the peace, and ushered in another 100 years of institutionalized racism.

ChemicalPilgrim ,

Lol, lmao

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