One of the more stunning concepts, arising out of certain hopeful Republicans to somehow distinguish themselves from the overwhelming and suffocating presence of Donald Trump, was the idea that the United States is “not a racist country.” Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley floated this theory last week, declaring on Fox News that the U.S. had “never been a racist country.”
Before he ignominiously bowed out of the race on Sunday, Ron DeSantis, when asked, echoed—in rather pathetic fashion—similar sentiments, stating “the U.S. is not a racist country,” but “we’ve overcome things in our history.” Haley’s statements were even more fascinating, however, in light of the fact that she’d previously ignored slavery as the primary cause of the Civil War.
But all political pandering aside, Republicans had better believe the United States is, in fact, a racist country. Because if it isn’t, they’ve been wasting literally the last 60 years and billions in political donations in a strangely quixotic quest to nail down the racist vote and make it their own. In fact, if this nation were not as racist as it is, there likely wouldn’t be a modern Republican party to begin with.
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