Gimme a Break: Haley Claims That in the
South, She Was ‘Teased Every Day for
Being Brown’
PJ Media,
by
Robert Spencer
Original Article
Posted By: Judy W.,
1/23/2024 6:46:29 AM
Can Nikki Haley read the room? Apparently not. With the New Hampshire primary just two days away, on Sunday she played the race card in a big way, making outlandish and implausible claims about her youth in South Carolina. Whose votes is she trying to win? Those of patriotic voters who are thoroughly sick of charges of “racism” being used as a weapon or those of the entrenched Washington establishment that weaponized those charges? The answer isn’t even close to being in doubt.
Haley came out big for identity politics saying: “We were the only Indian family in our small southern town. I was teased every day for being brown.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
FJB 2022 23 24 1/23/2024 6:51:54 AM (No. 1642381)
OH Gawd! I am sooo sick of the race card being played for everything from political, to get out of jail, to whatever the hell excuse and purpose is needed, out comes that card. I wouldn't have voted for Haley in the first place, but if I was I sure as hell wouldn't now, just because of this ploy. MAGA Trump for President!
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
thekidsmom66 1/23/2024 6:56:42 AM (No. 1642386)
I heard this yesterday. Give me a break. I'm of German, Irish, and Scottish decent, and this woman looks as white as I do. When you can't win any other way, try the race card. I guess when she finally goes down in flames, that will give her an excuse to just finally declare herself a Democrat
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
skacmar 1/23/2024 6:58:37 AM (No. 1642389)
Nikki Haley must have lightened up a lot if she was "brown" as a youngster. She looks White to me and one would assume that if she didn't claim her Indian heritage. It is not an issue. Stop making it one and playing the victim. The people you are trying to get to vote for you hate this tactic.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Ruhn 1/23/2024 6:59:15 AM (No. 1642390)
She was ‘teased’. Therefore Nikki is entitled to be President.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
privateer 1/23/2024 7:04:18 AM (No. 1642392)
Just as Casper is the only 'white' person we see, very few Blacks are actually 'black' as in deep black Nigerians. Most are some shade of black, brown, tan, taupe etc. In fact some were described---in the racist South, as 'high yaller'. Consider the movie 'Pinky' for instance. Jeanne Crain played the title character. She wasn't Black...didn't need to be. As for Indians, Raj Khoothrappali thinks he's delicious caramel, like Halle Berry. Nutty Nikki is grasping at straws. She will need one as a breathing tube.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Clinger 1/23/2024 7:07:42 AM (No. 1642394)
My wife is darker than her. Italian parents. Funny she didn't get bullied for that.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 1/23/2024 7:18:08 AM (No. 1642398)
Ah, “rayssism,” the last refuge of the failing politician.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
MattMusson1 1/23/2024 7:22:09 AM (No. 1642399)
I have a close Indian friend who told me he regularly teased about being darker skinned than he was. Maybe Nikki was teased by a sibling.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
bpl40 1/23/2024 7:22:14 AM (No. 1642400)
That is an exaggeration/lie that befits Kamala Harris. One reason the Indian community has been so successful and are the highest earning community in the US is because they hit the ground running when they came to this country and didn't have time for race based victimhood. When Bill Clinton was visiting India in the 90s, the Indian Prime Minister took him to Bangalore which was then a budding software center. The PM said to him "We want to make this the next Silicon Valley"" To which Clinton answered "Who do you think started the first one"?
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
smak90 1/23/2024 7:26:33 AM (No. 1642402)
I got called a cracker so I fell your pain Nikki. I survived it and so can you.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
stablemoney 1/23/2024 7:32:07 AM (No. 1642408)
That is a bald faced lie!
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
minuteman 1/23/2024 7:32:27 AM (No. 1642409)
Wow. I was blond haired and blue eyed. I was teased for: my freckles, my hairstyle, the way I walked, the house I lived in, and etc. Grow up.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
minuteman 1/23/2024 7:33:18 AM (No. 1642411)
#10 beat me to it.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
chumley 1/23/2024 7:48:27 AM (No. 1642421)
I dont believe it. She's pretty. Pretty girls get a pass on almost everything. So unless her personality was more abrasive than sandpaper, she wasn't teased about anything.
Try being the fat kid or the short kid or the poor kid or the dumb kid. Thats when you get teased.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
franq 1/23/2024 8:00:34 AM (No. 1642426)
The Bee has her number, OP. A while ago they had "After Lackluster Showing, Haley Bombs Iowa".
Politicians. Is there anything they won't say?
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
winmag 1/23/2024 8:00:46 AM (No. 1642427)
After playing the race card, will you drop out after the shellacking you get tonight or will you wait to be totally humiliated in your home state?
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Venturer 1/23/2024 8:25:15 AM (No. 1642436)
When you take Democrat money you have to run on a Democrat platform.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Laotzu 1/23/2024 8:30:43 AM (No. 1642438)
I am 60. In my gradeschool in the eastern US circa 1970, we had a girl from India join our class mid-year. Unlike Niki, she was brown. Never heard a word about it the entire year. Not once.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Geoman 1/23/2024 8:34:54 AM (No. 1642442)
Haley isn't even brown, but more like dirty grey-pink, very much like what are known as "white people." Next thing you know, she'll say she told her mom that she wanted "Frweedom."
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
lynngirl122 1/23/2024 8:37:31 AM (No. 1642445)
They all turn into Hilary sooner or later.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
ARKfamily 1/23/2024 8:46:42 AM (No. 1642454)
I found her Civil War statement odd, too.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
broken01 1/23/2024 8:59:05 AM (No. 1642463)
I was a Black boy who was teased by other Black boys and girls from 4th grade until 8th grade for "acting White." All because I got good grades, spoke clearly, respected my teachers, treated other students with kindness and respect and I loved comic books. I could draw so I won over one bully by drawing a picture of his favorite singer Stevie Wonder. That's another story. Nikki was pretty when she was in school, so I doubt that she got teased. I know for a fact she never got hit with a dodge ball "below the belt" causing instant reflex to the fetal position. All because I was making one of my bullies look bad in 6th grade gym class. If she was teased, I feel her pain. However, it doesn't mean that she should be my President.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
nuclearnavymom 1/23/2024 9:11:56 AM (No. 1642472)
No matter who is talking, the minute the race card is pulled I stop listening.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Lucky5 1/23/2024 9:35:47 AM (No. 1642485)
Honestly, I had no idea she was Indian until recently. She looks like an attractive tan white person to me.
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She also said she was excluded from a beauty pageant because she didn't fit into either the white or the black category. I have never heard of such a thing! If her town had separate pageants, and they refused to let her into the white contest, how did she ever get elected in such a racist state?
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
udanja99 1/23/2024 10:04:10 AM (No. 1642505)
Desperation. The race card is always played when one has nothing else left - no truth, no facts, no argument, nothing.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 1/23/2024 10:19:20 AM (No. 1642520)
Next, she will claim to be a black tranny for the trifecta.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
SkyKing1222 1/23/2024 10:37:54 AM (No. 1642538)
She came of age when Tanning Booths arrived in popularity and profitability.
Kinda kills the “poor little brown me”thing.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
formerNYer 1/23/2024 10:58:28 AM (No. 1642558)
Next thing you know she'll claim Indian hertiage.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
Gordon Mills 1/23/2024 11:02:30 AM (No. 1642560)
Playing the race card is a sign of desperation
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
dbdiva 1/23/2024 11:07:39 AM (No. 1642564)
I've worn glasses since the 2nd grade; for awhile I was called 4-eyes by kids in my class but eventually it stopped when their attention went elsewhere.
I'm waiting for Nik's story about the time she had to race across tarmac while dodging fire. She IS morphing into her inspiration!!
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
cireskul 1/23/2024 11:08:40 AM (No. 1642566)
I want nothing to do with Nikki. I will never vote for her under any circumstances.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
zoidberg 1/23/2024 11:10:43 AM (No. 1642571)
I'm an Ashkenazi Jew, and even in winter I'm way darker than Nikki.
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
Vaquero45 1/23/2024 11:16:48 AM (No. 1642579)
She’s starting to sound like Kamalalala.
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
DVC 1/23/2024 11:37:34 AM (No. 1642598)
Liar, liar, liar.
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
Birddog 1/23/2024 11:38:29 AM (No. 1642600)
Teased over epidermal hue?
More likely because she smelled funny...
Indians(dot not feather) stood out during that time due to diet, spices, and households that favored incensed airs.
In Ohio at that time my father was Chief of Pediatric Residents at a medical college, and practiced at several Hospitals...LOTS of Indian and Pakistani students and Doctors, and their families. It was much the same in Oklahoma where we lived before Ohio.
The women stood out because of their Fashion sense, "Eastern" clothing cues were all the rage, madras, paisleys,bright colors, silks, scarves,as belts and neck wear,...Nehru collars.
My mother had a favorite party outfit that was a combination of Indian and Indonesian, Her Sari/Sarong Number.
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
cor-vet 1/23/2024 11:53:55 AM (No. 1642616)
Well, that tears it! I'm a Trump fan all the way, but now, my 'feelings' for poor racially abused Nicky may cause me to change my vote!
S/O
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Reply 38 - Posted by:
Safari Man 1/23/2024 11:54:00 AM (No. 1642617)
This is a strategy aimed directly at Dimocrat voters
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Reply 39 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 1/23/2024 12:57:32 PM (No. 1642648)
Haley, your claim of being a little "brown" sounds like what Elizabeth Warren pulled when she proclaimed her supposed native American roots. Did you get that from a spit sample you sent to Ancestry.com? Give it up, Haley. Pulling a fast one like this won't get you anywhere. But perhaps the dims enjoyed your little identity politics charade.
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Reply 40 - Posted by:
red1066 1/23/2024 1:11:51 PM (No. 1642660)
If she was Irish, I might believe her ancestors had a tough time coming to this country. The Irish were considered lower than slaves. Slaves were valuable and cost money. Irish were expendable. It's why the Irish brigades during the Civil War were always sent into the toughest situations on a battlefield.
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Reply 41 - Posted by:
SALady 1/23/2024 2:04:27 PM (No. 1642687)
One thing for certain is that if a Demon-Rat has their mouth open and words are coming out, those words are lies!!!! Every time. Without fail.
Nikki is a natural-born Demon-Rat -- with the lying part down pat. She just needs to make it official!!!
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Reply 42 - Posted by:
oldmagnolia 1/23/2024 4:32:58 PM (No. 1642787)
They probably told her many times "bless her heart".
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Reply 43 - Posted by:
Hermit_Crab 1/23/2024 5:46:48 PM (No. 1642825)
Complete B.S. No one would think she was 'brown' unless she was 'acting brown'.
She is paler than I am, and my progenitors are Irish, English and German, and I don't get a lot of sun either.
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Reply 44 - Posted by:
anniebc 1/23/2024 7:52:31 PM (No. 1642891)
I'm browner than her, and I got teased every day for being short.
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Kids in elementary school and high school are mean. That's my experience, and it had nothing to do with race or sex. Kids find a reason and pick, pick, pick.
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Reply 46 - Posted by:
bighambone 1/24/2024 5:11:39 PM (No. 1643580)
Haley must have sensed that she was in trouble to move so far left as to hop aboard the leftist and socialist Democrat "race" mantra.
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The Babylon Bee's reaction to her ridiculous victim statements is priceless: “Nikki Haley Recalls Her Daring Childhood Escape From Slavery On The Underground Railroad.”