No lessons on racism
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Haley’s nearly all-White high school lacked lessons of racism, some say
Haley left her hometown’s integrated public school system and attended a high school newly created from the merger of two “segregation academies.”
Michael Kranish
Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley waits outside a campaign event at the Cinema in Orangeburg, S.C. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)
ORANGEBURG, S.C. — For most of her childhood, Nikki Haley attended public school in her rural hometown, where roughly half of her classmates were Black thanks to a model integration program that avoided the widespread “White flight” transforming many other districts.But as Haley began her sophomore year of high school in the fall of 1986, she left Bamberg, S.C., commuting 20 miles north to a radically different environment: Orangeburg Preparatory, 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.
At her new high school, where the daughter of Indian immigrants was one of the only non-White students, some classmates said in interviews that they weren’t adequately instructed about South Carolina’s history of divisive racial issues — from Jim Crow laws to Ku Klux Klan raids to lynchings.
Most glaringly, they said, was a lack of emphasis on the Orangeburg Massacre, a brutal confrontation two decades earlier in which White law enforcement officers killed three Black students and injured dozens of others who had been trying to integrate a bowling alley a few miles from the prep school campus. One other classmate said he was taught about the Orangeburg Massacre in an advanced placement course with limited enrollment.
To be educated at Orangeburg Prep was to “swim in the current” of the way Whites thought and were taught, said Katrice Shuler, the valedictorian of Orangeburg’s 1989 class, who recalls sitting through classes with Haley. “It could be very easy for someone to go through the school system, the private school system, and feel that, oh, racism isn’t a problem because they haven’t been negatively affected by it,” said Shuler, who is White.
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The only people for whom this would be an issue, would not be casting a vote for her or any other Republican candidate. That alone makes it nonsense and not worth the time of day.
Why is irrelevant garbage like this even reported in the first place?
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The only people for whom this would be an issue, would not be casting a vote for her or any other Republican candidate. That alone makes it nonsense and not worth the time of day.
Why is irrelevant garbage like this even reported in the first place?
