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I'm just saying with Cura 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 Haley'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 noticed 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 20th century

Southern America, was seen as different because of her rights 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

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