Republican presidential contender Nikki Haley is finding herself on defense again after she said “I had Black friends growing up” during a town hall as she sought to clean up remarks she made aroun…
She went to Orangeburg Preparatory School, a private school that was formed by the merger of two private schools that were segregation academies. Ask her how many black classmates she had. If the answer isn’t zero it was in the low single digits in a county that’s 60% black.
The answer is zero. I went to a school like this on the west coast, the same graduating year. We did have a black foreign exchange student, at least one year. To be fair, Nikki’s father taught at Voorheers college (a historically black institution), and her mom taught at a public school. Her mom started a boutique woman’s clothing store that Nikki worked in.
Yeah, I went to a similar school very close to the one she went to. Knew people from there, had friends that transferred over from there, etc.
It certainly wasn’t my choice to go there, and I don’t think my parents reasoning was out of racism in sending me there so I’m not about to conclude the same for her. But it’s just realistically thinking, how many black friends is she going to make going there? On top of recognizing the same horseshit whitewashing of history that got her into this whole defense. The same one I was taught originally as well.
She went to Orangeburg Preparatory School, a private school that was formed by the merger of two private schools that were segregation academies. Ask her how many black classmates she had. If the answer isn’t zero it was in the low single digits in a county that’s 60% black.
Yeah, I went to a similar school very close to the one she went to. Knew people from there, had friends that transferred over from there, etc.
It certainly wasn’t my choice to go there, and I don’t think my parents reasoning was out of racism in sending me there so I’m not about to conclude the same for her. But it’s just realistically thinking, how many black friends is she going to make going there? On top of recognizing the same horseshit whitewashing of history that got her into this whole defense. The same one I was taught originally as well.
I wonder how many Indians went there?