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Enough “Ragheads” for South Carolina Legislator

Posted June 7, 2010 by Patrick Young, Esq.
Categories: Hate Watch

A South Carolina State Senator with close ties to Joe “You Lie!” Wilson took a racist swipe at two politicians last week. Republican Senator Jake Knotts said, referring to Nikki Haley who is running in the primary to be the Republican candidate for governor, that:

We already got one raghead in the White House, we don’t need a raghead in the governor’s mansion.

Haley’s parents are Indian Punjabi Sikhs.

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