Nikki Haley claimed that America wasn’t based as a racist nation, and Steven Colbert responded with a brutal and traditionally correct joke.
Colbert mentioned in response to Haley’s declare that America shouldn’t be a racist nation, “Okay, so, the argument is that there is racism, but it’s not a racist country? That’s interesting. If you make a lemon chiffon cake that has even a little bit of poop in it, I got some bad news for you. That’s a poop cake. Gotta label it. Gotta label it right there at the deli. It’s gotta say poop cake.”
After enjoying a clip of Nikki Haley saying that America wasn’t based on racism, Colbert mentioned, “If you think America was not founded as a racist country, I’d say you have three-fifths of a brain.”
Stephen Colbert refuted Haley’s declare by referring to the three-fifths compromise, through which the founders agreed that slaves have been counted as three-fifths of an individual.
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Why does the Republican Social gathering battle a lot with something involving slavery or racism?
These ought to be settled questions. Slavery is the explanation why the nation fought a Civil Warfare, and racism is dangerous. People used to have the ability to agree on that till Republicans slipped right into a fantasyland the place racism doesn’t have a protracted and ugly historical past within the nation.
White Trump voters wish to hear that there isn’t any systemic racism, and that’s what Nikki Haley is telling them, however Stephen Colbert was proper. Racism has been on this nation since earlier than the settlers arrived.
To say that the nation wasn’t based on racism is a harmful delusion that solely harms People who’re nonetheless being discriminated towards right this moment.
It additionally reveals the unseriousness of Nikki Haley’s candidacy.
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