Nikki Haley calls The View Co-Host Sunny Hostin Racist for Suggesting She White-Washed Her Name

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The View co-host Sunny Hostin called out former Trump official Nikki Haley for shortening her name, claiming she was attempting to hide her heritage, per The Daily Beast. Haley then clapped back calling Hostin racist and noted that Hostin also changed her name from its original form.

Tuesday, show host Alyssa Farah Griffin suggested Republicans should give up on Trump already and support other conservatives like Haley and Rep. Liz Cheney, the report says. Hostin then took a jab at the two. Nikki Haley the chameleon and Liz Cheney the savior, Hostin said. What is her real name again? Griffin then stepped in to try and defend Haley but the two continued to go back and forth.

More on the segment from The National Review:

After Griffin noted that a lot of people dont go by their actual real names, she added that Haleys first name is Indian while admitting that she wasnt sure what it was at that moment. (Haleys given birth name is Nimrata Nikki Randhawa. She married Michael Haley in 1996.)

Continuing to hammer the former governor, Hostin then called on Haley to lean into being a woman of color. Co-host Sara Haines interjected at that point, focusing the discussion back on the list of potential GOP presidential candidates.

Sunny, I dont think thats fair, you go by a different name, [co-host Sara Haines] exclaimed.

Thats because most Americans cant pronounce Asuncin because of the undereducation in our culture, Hostin replied, defending her personal use of a nickname.

Oh, the conversation didn’t end there. Griffin insisted Haley probably made the choice being an Indian woman growing up in South Carolina and wanting to avoid prejudice. Hostin then responded, There are some of us who can be chameleons and decide not to embrace our ethnicity so that we can pass.

Haley had something to say about that right there.

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The comment may not have been so much racist as it was hypocritical but Haley made a point. Whether she shortened Nimrata Nikki to just Nikki to fit the face of the conservative crowd is her business. Us melanated women do that often. Some of our names given to us at birth were intentional to help us conform to societys standards and mask our race on paper.

Don’t point out the speck in someone else’s eye if you got one too.

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