This is so typical. The governor of North Carolina, of East Indian descent, gets criticized for checking off the "white" box on her voter registration card.
Why should a question like that even be asked?
What box should Gov. Nikki Haley check when it comes to her race?
The South Carolina Democratic Party tried Thursday to make Haley out as a liar for checking "white" as her race on her 2001 Lexington County voter registration application.
But the application had no specific option for "Indian." Her options were "white, black/African-American, Asian, Hispanic, Native American or other."
The governor stayed silent on the matter, although her allies accused the Democrats of the lowest-grade politics: race-baiting. Haley, the daughter of Indian immigrants, has never emphasized herself as South Carolina's first female and minority governor and the country's second Indian-American governor, but it has earned enormous national notoriety.
Isn't this just so typical.
Posted by: maria | Monday, August 01, 2011 at 06:11 PM