Nikki Haley is obviously lying about her experience in the South. It’s not that she’s not very brown. She isn’t. It’s that her characterization of the South is sociologically inaccurate.
Haley was born in 1972. This was several years after the abolition of segregation with the 1964 Civil Rights Act. By the time Haley went to high school, schools had been integrated for many years and prejudice had for the most part disappeared—and discrimination was illegal.
I realize that it’s difficult for young people to grasp this given how submerged they have been in the distortions of critical race theory and its historical revisionism, but when I was in high school in the South, blacks and whites used to hang out together—and nobody would have thought of Indians and Hispanics as racialized groups.
Haley is assumed to be white because she is. She doesn’t have a race card to play—and before antiracism, race cards were obviously obnoxious (they still are, of course).
I recognize that Haley is aiming the pseudo-biography/history at young people who don’t know that progressives resurrected racial thinking in the new millennium, but there are enough of us who are old enough to remind everybody of what the world was like before antiracism deranged the minds of the youth.
I just spent several hours viewing my senior high school album (from the year 1980). I hadn’t see book in decades. I was not surprised at all to be reminded that all the races were together and that black students were included in the clubs, pageants, etc. There are three black cheerleaders. Most Congenial was a black male and a white female. Most Likely to Succeed, a white male and a black female. Best Looking, a black female and a white male. A black female on the Royal Court. That was the 1970s—less than an hour and a half from the birthplace of the Ku Klux Klan.
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