During a recent interview, Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley said that America had “never been a racist country.” The Onion asked Americans why our history has always been color-blind, and this is what they said.
  • octopus_ink@lemmy.mlEnglish
    60·
    9 months ago

    “This so-called racist nation is the same one that gave Black Americans their own exclusive water fountains.”

    Whew. Some of these sound a little too much like things that have actually been said, like:

    “We gave them jobs, didn’t we?”

    • stevehobbes@lemy.lolEnglish
      51·
      9 months ago

      This is my fave:

      Paul Gruber, Warehouse Manager “America is not a racist country, but a federation of racist states.”

    • the post of tom joad@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      37·
      9 months ago

      I literally heard these exact words once: “we gave them equality and it wasn’t enough”. Yup.

      My response was ‘they were equals before, we didn’t give them anything.’ and all i got in response was a strong signal that the conversation was over

    • fckreddit@lemmy.mlEnglish
      10·
      9 months ago

      Not to mention “ Slavery was good for Black people”. Nothing boils my blood more than this sentence.