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Saturday, May 2, 2026

Liberals, NAACP activists target Nikki Haley with debunked claim that she avoids 'brown-person-sounding' name - Fox News

Liberal activists are targeting Nikki Haley with false claims about her real name and claiming she is trying to hide behind her race "to fit in" and "kowtowing" to "white folks."

"NIMRATA RANDHAWA HALEY Say your real name @NikkiHaley. Are you afraid the white folks you’re kowtowing to won’t vote for someone named Nimrata?" activist NAACP leader Talbert Swan wrote in a Twitter post.

"You not only want to erase the history of Black people to satisfy racists, you want to erase your own. You’re a disgrace," he said.

Despite the left's claim that Haley changed her name from Nimrata to Nikki to "erase" her ethnicity, the former U.N. ambassador set the record straight on several occasions: "Nikki is my name on my birth certificate. I married a Haley. I was born Nimrata Nikki Randhawa and married Michael Haley," she wrote in 2018.

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Swan, who in December was elected to a seventh two-year term leading the Greater Springfield Chapter of the NAACP, took another shot at Haley, claiming that her pro-American comments in a video Tuesday "denies and whitewashes America’s history of enslaving, murdering, raping, lynching, brutalizing, segregating, stereotyping, mass incarcerating, criminalizing, and dehumanizing Black people in 17 seconds."

Haley has for years faced attacks for not using her first name, but she has gone by her middle name, Nikki, since she was a child. In 2021, PolitiFact called the assertion...



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