Nikki really spins this story for virtue points. The facts are this:
Her parents moved from India to a small town in the South where the population skewed either White or Black. Nikki's dad took a job at an Historically Black University. Dad was a Sikh and wore a turban, Mom wore a sari. No one else looked like that. They looked and dressed differently. They chose not to assimilate culturally, which was their choice.
Her beauty pageant story is not from when she was an adult in a Miss America type pageant. No. It was from one of those pay-to-play toddlers with tiaras type kiddie contests where you pay a fee to enter and everyone is guaranteed a trophy. They have separate categories you choose from when entering.
In the case she cited, the categories offered only two ethnicity choices, black or white. She and her sister tried to enter, but fit neither category and were asked to step down.
“Yes, I was disqualified from the pageant,” she writes, “but the same town that disqualified me was the one that accepted me into a Girl Scout troop, helped my dad get a job in a community college, and helped my mom get a job as a sixth-grade social studies teacher.”
SO THE TAKE AWAY IS SHE WAS TREATED VERY FAIRLY AND HER FAMILY WAS GIVEN OPPORTUNITIES. How about telling that part of the story, Haley???
Nikki really spins this story for virtue points. The facts are this:
Her parents moved from India to a small town in the South where the population skewed either White or Black. Nikki's dad took a job at an Historically Black University. Dad was a Sikh and wore a turban, Mom wore a sari. No one else looked like that. They looked and dressed differently. They chose not to assimilate culturally, which was their choice.
Her beauty pageant story is not from when she was an adult in a Miss America type pageant. No. It was from one of those pay-to-play toddlers with tiaras type kiddie contests where you pay a fee to enter and everyone is guaranteed a trophy. They have separate categories you choose from when entering.
In the case she cited, the categories offered only two ethnicity choices, black or white. She and her sister tried to enter, but fit neither category and were asked to step down.
But, would Nikki have had a chance?
Examples:
https://i0.wp.com/24smi.org/public/media/resize/800x-/2018/4/28/02_jGBBxv7.jpg
https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/230602145351-nikki-haley-file-060223.jpg?c=original
https://s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/media.glaad.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/25195543/Nikki-Haley-1de.jpg
Read more of her story:
“Yes, I was disqualified from the pageant,” she writes, “but the same town that disqualified me was the one that accepted me into a Girl Scout troop, helped my dad get a job in a community college, and helped my mom get a job as a sixth-grade social studies teacher.”
SO THE TAKE AWAY IS SHE WAS TREATED VERY FAIRLY AND HER FAMILY WAS GIVEN OPPORTUNITIES. How about telling that part of the story, Haley???
Source: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2024/01/20/nikki-haley-never-racist-book/72280548007/