{"id":605222,"date":"2024-01-19T03:25:07","date_gmt":"2024-01-19T00:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/barkley-laughs-at-haleys-remarks-on-racism-that-was-just-stupid\/"},"modified":"2024-01-19T03:25:07","modified_gmt":"2024-01-19T00:25:07","slug":"barkley-laughs-at-haleys-remarks-on-racism-that-was-just-stupid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/barkley-laughs-at-haleys-remarks-on-racism-that-was-just-stupid\/","title":{"rendered":"#Barkley laughs at Haley\u2019s remarks on racism: \u2018That was just stupid\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/e3f394fe2cfc4bf396c7ca5b57a94c3b-e1703172656852.jpg?w=900\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Former basketball player and CNN host Charles Barkley laughed after reviewing a recent clip of Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley, in which she said the United States has \u201cnever been a racist country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During a Tuesday interview on \u201cFox &amp; Friends,\u201d Haley claimed the U.S. is not a racist country and never has been one.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr1_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cOur goal is to make sure that today is better than yesterday,\u201d she said. \u201cAre we perfect? No. But our goal is to always make sure we try and be more perfect every day that we can.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Haley said she has experienced racism in the past, growing up as a brown girl in rural small-town South Carolina. She said she didn\u2019t want to raise her kids to feel disadvantaged.<\/p>\n<p>On his show \u201cKing Charles\u201d with co-host Gayle King, Barkley <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/videos\/politics\/2024\/01\/18\/charles-barkley-nikki-haley-racist-country-sot-kc-vpx.cnn\">audibly laughed<\/a> at Haley\u2019s comments and said Haley would be correct, only if \u201cyou forget about slavery, Jim Crow, segregation, antisemitism, Asian hate has been going on in this country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>King responded, saying she thinks people were surprised that Haley would claim that the U.S. is not a racist country.<\/p>\n<p>Barkley responded that \u201cyou can\u2019t be surprised. That was just stupid.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmerica was built on racism,\u201d he said. \u201cYou can criticize a country. This is the greatest country in the world, you can still criticize.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr2_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Barkley continued, saying if people turn on the TV, they will see that racism persists in the country every day. He argued that Haley, who wants to be President of the United States, cannot claim that the country is not racist.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmerica was built on racism. I can say segregation, Jim Crow, slavery. Even now, we got antisemitism through the roof. But in the last couple of years, Asian people [have] been getting mistreated,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>King noted that Haley will host a town hall event in New Hampshire Thursday with CNN\u2019s Jake T<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>er. Barkley said he wanted to fill the seats at her event with an all-Black audience.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr3_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cSomething tells me there\u2019s not very many Black people in New Hampshire,\u201d King responded.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that the reason she said that everything\u2019s rosy with Black people, is she\u2019d been in New Hampshire and Iowa for the last two months, she ain\u2019t seen no Black people,\u201d Barkley said. \u201cBut listen, I\u2019m so disappointed that she said that because it\u2019s 100 percent wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Copyright 2023 Nexstar <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Media<\/a> Inc. All rights reserved. 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