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know what all the fuss is about. It's really frustrating when you watch this play out because the Republican Party after they got crushed,

what year was that? Was it after Obama when they tried to figure out why they they lost the election and they had to realize that they need to reach out to minorities and it kind of was accepted that that was something they should do? And honestly, if they had done that, I mean, they probably wouldn't have any issues at all because there are a lot of conservative minorities. I know a lot of old black people that are super conservative like the Hispanic

Catholic contingent is super conservative. There is no reason why the

Republican Party's conservative ideas shouldn't be embraced by a whole bunch of people who aren't

white but the only reason it is because it's clearly a very racist party.

The example of just just using her birth name as an attack.

Why would it be an attack to call her her name?

Well, it's because they're a racist party.

Why would the Babylon be say after Vivek dropped out that Trump is going. the whatever they said about him. What is the joke? What's the joke there? Why is that

a joke? How is that funny? The only reason it's funny is because of racist

stereotypes. It's a racist party full of racist people and there is a lane for people like Vivek and

Nicki to be in but they're never gonna really be a part of it.

They're only going to be a part of it. They're only going to be partly accepted.

Nicky Haley, I think, has a better chance of going farther than to make just because, like

we were talking about before we got on here is that I did not know that she was an Indian woman until fairly recently because she is white passing.

She can if you don't know anything about her history

and if she just said she was Nicky Haley

from South Carolina, there's nothing that indicates

that she's anything but a white lady.

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