"We're Not a Racist Country…" "We've Never Been a Racist Country"

Nikki Haley outdoes Tim Scott

Gage Skidmore from Surprise, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

There must be something in the water in South Carolina that either convinces its politicians as to the lack of racism in America or to deny outright it ever existed. Senator Tim Scott made news in 2021 when he proclaimed, "America is not a Racist Country," while also describing several of the racist…