The View hits Nikki Haley for pandering to racists in the Republican Party
Ahead of Vice President Kamala Harris' interview with "The View," the co-hosts debated a recent Fox News segment in which Nikki Haley, again, flubbed a question about racism in the United States.
Whoopi Goldberg began the conversation by saying she can't understand why it is so difficult for people to admit that racism played a big role in the history of the country. Sunny Hostin pointed out that the Constitution considered Black people three-fifths of a person. Goldberg recalled the 1891 New Orleans lynching, in which 11 Italian immigrants were attacked by a mob.
"Emmett Till didn't do that to himself," she said. "That was done to him because somebody was angry because he overstepped in their mind what he was supposed to do as a Black person. So, you can't tell me it hasn't existed, doesn't exist. Yeah, we are trying to get it better, but stop trying to whitewash it because every time they say we'll take away Black history and take away women's history, what do you think that says?"
Ana Navarro addressed the way in which Haley manages to flub simple questions in an effort to pander to the far-right of the GOP.
"Every time she opens up her mouth when it comes to race or slavery, she opens it up to put her foot in it," Navarro said. "Why does she do that? Because she's running in a party where talking — where being a woman of color, talking about race is considered being whiny and ungrateful to the United States for the opportunity it's given us, and playing identity politics. And so she then tiptoes around it and every time she talks about it she sounds a fool."
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She went on to say that it's particularly important as it's a woman of color trying to deny racism in American history.
"She could have said, well, we were one of the countries in the world that had slavery, which was a racist policy, and we've come somewhat a long way with a lot of people; it's gotten better," Joy Behar said. "According to her, it's gotten better, but there was Jim Crow, there's red-lining, a lot of segregation still going on in the country."
But it was Republican and ex-Trump White House aide Alyssa Farah Griffin who dropped the hammer.
"From a purely strategy standpoint, racism in the Republican Party, which, I think, is a small minority — I reject that the majority of the party is racist. They will never be with Nikki Haley. She is a woman of color. They won't support me. I'm an Arab-American. Don't pander to them, but have that moral courage that we saw with John McCain. When somebody came to him and espoused conspiracy theories about Obama's upbringing, he said, I reject that, lead, don't follow. We need it, and it feels like it doesn't exist.
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