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Nikki Haley doesn’t have a chance in hell at winning the presidency.
That is, of course, my opinion, but I am willing to bet cash money that in addition to me “knowing” it, voters know it, Republicans know it and Nikki Haley for sure knows it.
When you look at the average age of the white people in power in this country, you understand that these people do not relinquish power ever, and they stick around forever because evil never dies. We’ve discussed this before, but in case you need a refresher course, I wrote about this when Dianne Feinstein died.
Nikki Haley is playing the long game.
The former governor of South Carolina and U.N. ambassador — who also gave us the gift of Tim Scott — has had time to sit back and observe the radical and racist policies those on the right have been putting in place.
There is a push in this country to eliminate any and all “sources” of white guilt. I put the word sources in quotation marks because the actual source of the white guilt is their own consciences.
Because they lack the self-awareness to see that, they blame things like the accurate teaching of American history that includes the atrocities whiteness has exacted upon Black people (or anyone who is not white and cis-gendered).
The entire “critical race theory” propaganda campaign was evidence of this. They laid the plan out right in front of us — putting up a scare campaign that convinced racist white people that their children were being made to feel guilty for things that happened hundreds of years before they were born.
And because white fragility is so strong and the need to uphold the structure of white supremacy that ultimately benefits them in some ways, they would rather blame the people calling out the problem instead of addressing the problem itself.
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