MSNBC guest Wajahat Ali doubled down on an overtly racist attack aimed at GOP presidential contender Nikki Haley, the daughter of Indian immigrants, during an interview on Sunday, claiming that she is using her “brown skin to launder white supremacist talking points.”
Ali responded to Haley’s campaign launch for the 2024 nomination last week during an appearance with MSNBC anchor Mehdi Hasan.
“I see her and I feel sad because she uses her brown skin to launder white supremacist talking points,” @WajahatAli tells @MehdiRHasan about Nikki Haley’s presidential bid strategy and how it falls short. pic.twitter.com/MYNhZfz3ea
— The Mehdi Hasan Show (@MehdiHasanShow) February 20, 2023
“To quote Zora Neale Hurston, ‘not all skin-folk are kinfolk.’ Nikki Haley, instead, is the Dinesh D’Souza of Candace Owens. She’s the alpha-Karen with brown skin. And for white supremacists and racists, she is a perfect Manchurian candidate,” Ali began, his comments becoming even more blatantly racist as he droned on.
“I’m just disgusted by people like Nikki Haley who know better,” Ali noted further, suggesting — as did “The View” co-host Sunny Hostin — that Haley only really embraced her ethnicity when it politically benefitted her, before comparing it to “white supremacy.”
“What does she do? Like all these model minorities, which by the way, is the strategy of white supremacy — to use Asians in particular — as a cudgel against black folks,” he continued.
“Instead of pulling us up from the bootstraps, and pulling others from the bootstrap, we’re told to take our boot and put it on the neck of poor browns, immigrants, refugees, and black folks. That’s what she did in her ad. I see her, and I feel sad because she uses her brown skin as a weapon against poor black folks and poor brown folks, and she uses her brown skin to launder white supremacist talking points,” he claimed.
“It will never be enough. They will never love her,” Ali concluded.
On Monday, Haley responded to the left’s overt racism during an interview with Fox News’ Martha MacCallum, telling her she was “unfazed” by it all. She went on to recall how South Carolina state Representative Gilda Cobb-Hunter (D-SC) had once referred to her not as a minority but instead as just a “nice conservative woman with a tan.” The former governor then lambasted those who had nothing more to use against her other than her age and her ethnicity.
Haley said in 2021 that she had no plans to challenge her former boss, Donald Trump, for the presidency in 2024 amid strong hints even then that he was going to run again. But she launched a presidential bid last week anyway.
“It’s time for a new generation of leadership – to rediscover fiscal responsibility, secure our border, and strengthen our country, our pride and our purpose,” Haley said in her campaign announcement. “Republicans have lost the popular vote in seven out of the last eight general elections. That has to change,” she said in her first campaign video.
“Some people look at America and see vulnerability. The socialist left sees an opportunity to rewrite history. China and Russia are on the march. They all think we can be bullied. Kicked around. You should know this about me: I don’t put up with bullies. And when you kick back, it hurts them more if you’re wearing heels,” Haley went on to say.
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“You first look at does the current situation push for new leadership? The second question is am I that person who could be that new leader? Yes, we need to go in a new direction. Can I be that leader? Yes, I think I can be that leader.” Haley said on Fox News with Bret Baier.
