A Washington Post article criticizing Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley’s “all-white high school” was blasted by political commentators on Tuesday.
The piece, titled “Haley’s nearly all-White high school lacked lessons of racism, some say,” was written by the Post’s national political investigative reporter Michael Kranish. The reporter goes back to the mid-1980s when Haley attended Orangeburg Preparatory, a private high school in South Carolina. At the time, Orangeburg Prepatory was “a newly created private school formed from the merger of two institutions known locally as ‘segregation academies’ because of their nearly universal White enrollment in a majority-Black city,” according to the Post.
Shortly after the article was published, it was slammed by political commentators on social media.
“Ffs this is stupid. Now do Joe Biden’s high school,”…