After GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley proclaimed during a Fox News interview Tuesday that America has “never been a racist country,” she faced a firestorm of criticism not just from the left but the right as well, with some popular conservative commentators like Dan Bongino blasting the third-place finisher in the Iowa caucuses for her “incoherence” and inability to forthrightly “answer a simple question.”
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On Thursday, Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) appeared on CNN and was asked about Haley’s remarks.
After talking about what she called “institutional” and “systemic racism” in America, Lee told a story of something she says happened to her when she tried to enter the “members only” elevator in the Capitol building:
She went on to share a personal story about how she faced racism in the halls…
