Haley Explains Remarks That the US Has ‘Never Been a Racist Country’

Published on January 18, 2024

MANCHESTER, N.H.—GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley explained on Jan. 18 why she said two days ago that the United States has “never been a racist country.” When asked by The Epoch Times following an event in Hollis, New Hampshire, if saying that the United States has “never been a racist country” was a slip of the tongue, the former South Carolina governor and U.S. ambassador to the United Nations answered “no.” “Listen, I was born a brown girl in a small rural town in South Carolina. … Did we face racism? Yes,” said Ms. Haley, whose parents immigrated to the United States from India....