Wajahat Ali slammed GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley as a “brown-skinned alpha Karen” and “the perfect Manchurian candidate” for white supremacy and racism.
On Sunday’s episode of MSNBC’s “The Mehdi Hasan Show,” the playwright and political commentator explained why he is “disgusted” by Haley, the daughter of two Indian immigrants, who has been criticized for trying to play both the MAGA nationalist and unificationist sides. the launch of her campaign.
“Instead of pulling us by the bootstraps, and pulling other people by the bootstraps, we are told to take your boots and put them on the necks of poor browns, immigrants, refugees, and black people,” Ali said of the former GOP South Carolina Governor and Trump-era US Ambassador to United Nations.
“And that’s what they do in their commercials,” he continued. “I look at him, and I feel sad Mehdi because he uses brown skin as a weapon against poor black people and poor brown people and he uses brown skin to wash white supremacy talking points.”