After comments made by The View co-host Sunny Hostin calling Nikki Haley a “chameleon” for not embracing her Indian roots, the former South Carolina Governor and UN Ambassador fired back Wednesday during an appearance on Faulkner Focus.
Hostin scoffed at The View co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin’s insinuation that Haley could be a good Presidential candidate, saying “some of us can be chameleons and decide not to embrace our ethnicities”. Hostin herself goes by a different name than her legal first name, Asuncion. She defended herself by saying “most American’s can’t pronounce” her name due to “undereducation”.
Haley returned served by tweeting its “racist” of Hostin to “judge my name”. She later said “the left’s hypocrisy towards conservative minorities” is sad.
During her appearance on Fox News, Haley said “They can’t stand the fact that a minority female would be a conservative Republican. You know, when I ran and won governor a reporter went to a high-ranking African-American Democrat female and said “How do you feel that South Carolina now has their first minority governor?” And she said ‘Nikki Haley is not a minority. She’s a conservative with a tan’.”
Haley then said Hostin won’t receive any repercussions from her words, and pointed out a perceived double standard on the matter.
“You’re not going to see her fired from that show,” she argued. “We’re not going to even see an apology from that show. Because they let liberals say that about conservative Republican minorities all the time. But yet nothing is done. Had this been said about a Democrat, all hell would have broken loose.”
