Charles Barkley laughed at Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley on Wednesday after she claimed that America has “never been a racist country.”
The NBA icon, on the newest episode of his CNN present “King Charles” with Gayle King, chuckled at a clip of the previous United Nations ambassador making the declare throughout an look on “Fox & Friends” Tuesday.
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“We asked people out on the street about that tonight. We didn’t find anyone that could agree with that statement,” King mentioned of Haley’s feedback.
“Not anybody with common sense,” Barkley mentioned.
He added that he’s having a “hard time” making an attempt to determine who he’s going to vote for earlier than noting that the previous South Carolina governor is the “leader in the clubhouse.”
“Because she’s 100% correct if you forget about slavery, Jim Crow, segregation, antisemitism, Asian hate that’s been going on in this country, America has been smooth sailing,” he mentioned.
Haley, when requested by CNN’s Jake Tapper if she “really” thinks America has by no means been a racist nation “as a historical matter,” mentioned there was “plenty of racism” she handled because the daughter of Indian immigrants however her mother and father by no means advised her they lived in a “racist country.”
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“And I’m so thankful they didn’t because for every brown and Black child out there, if you tell them they live – or [are] born – in a racist country, you’re immediately telling them they don’t have a chance,” she advised Tapper at a CNN city corridor on Thursday.
Barkley mentioned you possibly can’t be shocked by Haley’s feedback to Fox News, which he referred to as “just stupid.”
“America was built on racism,” he mentioned.
“You can criticize a country. This is the greatest country in the world, you can still criticize it. Anybody who thinks we don’t have racism, you turn on the TV, every single day there’s racism.”