Haley: Obama Set Minorities Back, Made Them Victims

The Guardian reports:

Barack Obama has criticized two Republican presidential hopefuls, the South Carolina senator Tim Scott and the former UN ambassador Nikki Haley, over their stances on race relations in America.

In a podcast interview, Obama, who became the first Black US president when he was elected in 2008, said that while presenting a hopeful message on race relations was important, “that has to be undergirded with an honest accounting of our past and our present”.

“There’s a long history of African American or other minority candidates within the Republican party who will validate America and say, ‘Everything’s great, and we can make it,’” Obama told the Democratic strategist David Axelrod on the CNN-hosted Axe Files. He added that he thought Nikki Haley “has a similar approach”.

Read the full article. Haley fired back last night.

.@BarackObama set minorities back by singling them out as victims instead of empowering them. In America, hard work & personal responsibility matter. My parents didn’t raise me to think that I would forever be a victim. They raised me to know that I was responsible for my…

— Nikki Haley (@NikkiHaley) June 16, 2023

Nimrata please

— SheLovesThee (@SheLoves_THEE) June 16, 2023

@NikkiHaley nee Persona Nimrata, it’d behoove you to go light on the Shade. Groucho said, “I don’t want to belong to any club that would have me as a member.” You won’t have to choose. @GOP won’t have you. As Marissa Tomei stated in ‘My Cousin Vinny’, “Yeah, like you blend.”

— Louis R. Bridgeman (@LouisRBridgema3) June 16, 2023

So that’s why you never used your birth name? Nimarata Nikki Randhawa?? President Obama used his birth name and is proud of his family

— JoeyBonanno (@RealJoeBonanno) June 17, 2023