Did anyone else catch this?: Nikki Haley denies American racism, then immediately acknowledges it.

Is it my imagination, or is that a "What can you do -- Donald Trump is President..." look on her face?

Here are a couple of passages from Nikki Haley’s speech on the first night of the RNC:

In much of the Democratic Party, it's now fashionable to say that America is racist. That is a lie. America is not a racist country.

Literally 30 seconds later she said:

We [our brown-skinned family] faced discrimination and hardship.

Ric Wilson said, “Everything Trump touches, dies.”  Apparently — for Nikki Haley — one of the things that has died is her ability to see when she is making a fool of herself.

When you tell millions of people on television that America is not racist and then — literally four sentences later — recall how your immigrant family faced discrimination for your brown skin and turbans and saris… you are most certainly making a fool of yourself.  In particular, you are discrediting yourself with people who live outside the FOX-Trump bubble: i.e. potential swing voters.

Contamination by Trump has turned the woman who five years ago took down the Nazi Confederate flag from the South Carolina legislature into an insight-lacking RWNJ.

Here is the full passage:

In much of the Democratic Party, it's now fashionable to say that America is racist. That is a lie. America is not a racist country.
 

This is personal for me. I am the proud daughter of Indian immigrants. They came to America and settled in a small southern town. My father wore a turban. My mother wore a sari. I was a brown girl in a black and white world.

We faced discrimination and hardship…