Uses #1619Project as political prop in a video that opens with growing up where railroad tracks (not white people) divided the town by race. Talking about being the child of immigrants without acknowledging that the rights she had in SC were won by Black resistance. Just peak.
https://twitter.com/ccadelago/status/1625468851126255618
Talking about how governments in China and Iran kill their own citizens while from a state where in 1968, four years before she was born, highway patrolman -- govt agents -- opened fire on 200 unarmed Black citizens protesting apartheid in South Carolina. history.com/.amp/topics/19…
Nikki Haley's family was able to immigrate to the US because the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act finally ended the racist immigration quota system designed to keep out most non-white immigrants. americanprogress.org/article/the-im…
And they immigrated to an America in 1969 where legal discrimination based on race, ethnicity and national origin had been banished by the martyrs of a decades-long, blood and violent Black resistance struggle.
So to deploy the 1619 Project and Black protest movements as progenitors of anti-American hatred when in fact what they both show is NO GROUP has fought for the ideals of equality and freedom more than Black Americans is just highly offensive.
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