Clay Jones for January 20, 2024

Is it just me, or did yesterday’s caricature of Haley look much more like her than today’s does?

Nikki Haley is willfully uninformed or intentionally misinformative in her recent missteps discussing the cause of the Civil War without mentioning slavery and then saying that the United States is not now and never has been a racist country.

She was born, raised and educated in South Carolina. She was twice elected governor of South Carolina. South Carolina was the first state to secede, with a Declaration of Causes that explicitly stated the need to preserve slavery as the reason for secession, and was the place where the Civil War began.

Nikki Haley knows all this.

Her attempts to whitewash the history of this nation in general and her state in particular with respect to race relations is intentional, and backfired.

When Barack Obama ran for the presidency, he used his actual ethnic name, because today’s Democratic Party welcomes diversity. Nimarata Nikki Randhawa Haley has chosen to go by her middle name, Nikki, all her life because she knows that, unlike Obama, in her party her given name would be a political liability.

She obviously runs away from issues related to racial and ethnic identity and tries to wish them away.

Nikki, or whatever her name is, is as cowardly as Bone Spurs.

Or at least her family has never had a problem with it.

GoComics, I am sure, would not allow Clay to depict a lynching.

See however, the Wikipedia article on lynching in the US

https://en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Lynching_in_the_United_States

Well, Nikki is just following South Carolina tradition.

The ideology behind lynching, directly connected to the denial of political and social equality, was stated forthrightly in 1900 by United States Senator Benjamin Tillman, who was previously governor of South Carolina:

“We of the South have never recognized the right of the ne gro to govern white men, and we never will. We have never believed him to be the equal of the white man, and we will not submit to his gratifying his lust on our wives and daughters without lynching him.”

Sure, Nikki, no racism there…

Been racist? IS racist.

For a country in which very few people will admit to being racist, we sure have a history that says otherwise. Just ask the descendants of the people who were here before Europeans arrived, and the descendants of the people who were purchased in Africa and brought here to do hard labor.

^^^@Pepe, since you are still unwilling to change your avatar, one can only conclude from your own words upstairs that you are a raving leftist.

“Segregation today. Segregation tomorrow. Segregation forever!” (George Wallace, 1963 inauguration address)

From 1882 to 1968, four years before Nikki Haley was born in South& Carolina, 156 African-Americans were murdered in lynchings in that state alone. Nope. Not racist. Nope.

As they say, a picture is worth a thousand words.

Nikki Haley knows about racism. However, she also knows in the Republican party controlled by Trump, she can’t tell the truth about it, lest she offend the very people she wants to vote for her. In an almost comical twist, Trump is using a racist trope against Haley as he makes fun of her Indian name, and he is using the birther argument against her that she isn’t eligible to be President.

When was this: 1963 or 1965 are my guesses? It was then when progressives actually led the charge to end segregation. We all have racist tendencies, only some of us acknowledge it and mitigate it. At the time of the photo, I was living in a lily white part of Pennsylvania called Wilkes-Barré. I didn’t even know any Jews. My world was various recent immigrants from Europe overwhelmingly Catholic. I barely knew anyone Protestant or even Episcopalian. Only when I went to Penn State’s main campus did I get a glimpse of the rest of the world. Our economy works best when everyone can use his talents to the benefit of all of us. Segregation and prejudice make it worse for all of us.

To ignore evil is to become an accomplice to it.

Erasing racism from US history is as impossible as erasing racism from the present.

Keep up the excellent work Mr. Jones. You hurt the racists where they hurt the most, the truth.

Touché, Mr Jones.

She must have a copy of the new history books.

Good point, Clay!

I am reading “Invisible Man” by Ralph Ellison.

Written when there were folks who had been born slaves were still with us.

Written recently enough that the children of those former slaves ARE still with us.

Clearly Nikki does not understand that racism was a tool, used by whites to control slaves and used by whites to control other whites.

How many of those ignorant, poor white trash used to say, "I may be ignorant, poor white trash, but at least I ain’t no n(fill it in yourself)r.

And how many of them still say it to this very day?

I was born and raised in the upper South. The schools I went to were segregated, years after Brown v. Board of Education. Racism was not just a matter of fact, it was a matter of law. I grew up watching scenes like the one Clay depicts on the news, night after night. A few years later I got to know people who had been Freedom Riders, people who had built the Nashville movement, and people who had worked and gone to jail in Mississippi. Yes, the US was a racist country. I would argue that things are better than they were, but these attitudes don’t die quickly.

The GQP and the ‘whitewashed’ version of history.

In as much as racism begins as preference for one’s own race, then this nation, and all other nations, has always been racist. Whether our racist feeling leads to violence and other persecution is for others to decide. I just try to carry out Jesus’ last great command, Love One Another.

Clay, using a Chris Britt style. Interesting.

Why let evidence get in the way of political spin?

…and the point being Nikki Haley just wants to cover up what happened and pretends it didn’t happen. The Dumpster in his usual reactive, nail his opponent to the cross, ridiculed her as he does every opponent or citizen (he did appoint her as Ambassador to the U.N.), as he did to Marco Rubio, Raphel (Ted) Cruz, Elain Chao (wife of Mitch McConnell); the forementioned Nikki Haley and almost everyone whose ethnicity isn’t lily white). Voters must not give him a second chance to sit in the Oval Office behind the Resolute Desk.

You think Traitor Trump even remembers that HE was the one who appointed Haley to be UN ambassador?

As for the chronically projecting trolls, just laugh at them, but don’t reply to them. No point: they can neither learn nor reform.

And Mr Jones nails it again. Spot F’ing on.

That was before her time and her family is not from around here.

What really amuses me is the concept that the GOP would ever EVER select a woman of color as its candidate for president. She is merely a distraction from 45, to even be considered.

I’ve been thinking of making a meme in the “People who didn’t grow up in the ‘50s and ’60s don’t remember…” vein with pictures like this. I remember seeing it in the newspaper and in TV.

This is an excellent example of conservatives in the U.S. and their attempts to change factual history, and celebrating enemies of this Nation. This is why ‘WOKE’ is necessary and why conservatives try to villainize it.

In the United States Constitution, the Three-fifths Compromise is part of Article 1, Section 2, Clause 3. It is proof conservative denials are still at work. Just as their claim that this Nation is a ‘Christian Nation’. It is not and never was. Our 2nd president and Founding Father, and one of the authors of our documents of government, John Adams, read from the floor of congress into the congressional record the very first international agreement the U.S. made, "As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion;

conservatives try to disguise The Confederacy that quit the U.S., attacked the U.S., made war on the U.S., invaded the U.S. and killed U.S. soldiers. Confederate statues, monuments, and namesakes are the same as celebrating Stalin, Mussolini, Hitler and Hirohito.

conservatives are the enemy of the U.S. and have been since 1774.

I say the dude looks like a lady.

Only in States run by Democrats.

Clay is spot on, which makes me wonder why so many people are giving attention to a right wing hateful lying troll?

I do wonder what kind of positions these paid trolls are after in the new Fascist dictatorship they so want to happen under their idol the Orange Fuhrer. I’m guessing they want to run some of the Uyghur-style camps that will be all over the country full of Muslims and Hispanics within 6 months of him taking over. Or maybe they’ll hold out for the ones holding all the black people. Because mark my words, that’s what is coming if the Republicans win. I do wonder what kind of quality control they’re going to do on the products those camps make and who is going to run the food industry since people have to go to McDonalds for breakfast.

I know a lot of folks walk around with blinders, but she’s just embarrassing herself; a true representative of today’s GQP.

Haley left out the word “not” between never and been.