Now this is the FCB podcast network. You just listen to yourself presents. I'm just saying, Davis. Conservatives have been giving Nikki Haley a hard time for saying in an interview that she was teased every day for being a brown girl growing up in the South. The criticism is that she doesn't really look dark enough to have been teased. Not only is this ignorant, it's cruel. Racial abuse is real, and believe it or not, it comes with a lot of shame. Part of that shame comes when you share a story of such personal abuse and people immediately tell you why you didn't experience what you know you did. It isn't fair to negate Hailey's story simply because you don't think she's dark enough. Children can be cruel, especially when they're in herds. It only takes the tiniest difference to be when you're a child. It's why we have to spend so much time telling our kids that it's okay to be unique. They're hardwired for conformity. It's an evolutionary survival mechanism that has to be countered with a lot of social training. We all know that instinctually it shouldn't be hard to believe that Haley, a child of Indian descent who lived in a very small town in twentieth century Southern America, was seen as different because of her rapes slash ethnicity. Just because you can't tell she's of Indian descent when you look at her doesn't mean that other people can't, and it's certainly believable that all of the people in her small town knew of her ethnicity. Furthermore, if one looks at the full clip, one can see she's actually putting the two woke white Brady MSNBC reporters in their place after they accused her of being a racist. She was simply conveying her experience and the actions it led her to take, as a way to explain to them that their accusations about her were untrue, unfounded, and bigoted, and that while racism is real, it never stopped her from going place. I might not be a Hailey voter, but I at least understood the nature of her comments. I'm not sure why conservatives are so hell bent on minimizing anyone's experience with racial abuse or bullying, but it feels gross, so stop it. I'm Kira Davison, I'm just saying. This has been a presentation of the FCB podcast Network, where Real Talk lives. Visitors online at fcbpodcasts dot com.
