Rep. Jerry Carl (R-AL) said that “everyone has some racist in them,” pushing back on GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley’s assertion that the United States has never been a racist country, NBC News reports.
Said Carl: “I used to work a lot with ministers, and I had some very private conversations. Everyone has some type of racist in them.”
He added: “My mother, who after Pearl Harbor — she couldn’t stand the Japanese. She couldn’t stand them. And it used to just eat her from the inside out. So it’s there.”
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