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CNN’s Bakari Sellers calls Nikki Haley ‘white governor’ after town hall
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0:50Now PlayingA CNN political analyst falsely referred to Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley as “a white governor from the Deep South” Sunday night while criticizing her handling of racial tensions in South Carolina following the 2015 massacre of nine black parishioners at a Charleston church by a white supremacist.
“One of the major elements of the Nikki Haley story is Charleston,” Bakari Sellers, a former Democratic legislator from the Palmetto State, said following CNN’s town hall event with Haley.
“Nikki Haley did not take down the Confederate flag,” Sellers added, attacking the 51-year-old governor for not ordering the Stars and Bars removed earlier in her tenure. “That bothers me when she alludes to it or people state that, because that’s incorrect. Nine people died so that the Confederate flag could come down.”
“But there also has to be some credit given to a white governor from the deep South being able to go to nine funerals because I saw the exhaustion on her face — being a leader during that time and being able to bridge people together,” Sellers also said.
CNN anchor Kaitlin Collins jumped in to correct the record shortly after Sellers finished, saying, “She is the first woman of color that is running in this.”
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