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May 2, 2021 · Race and Ethnicity. Facebook Fact-checks. Viral image. By Ciara O'Rourke May 6, 2021. Nikki Haley didn't 'white-wash' her name. She's gone by her middle name her whole life. If Your Time is...
May 7, 2021 · We rate claims that Haley white-washed her name FALSE, based on our research. Haley has gone by "Nikki," her legal middle name, since birth, which means she started using it before she started...
Feb 21, 2023 · These claims are false. Haley did not change her name because of racism. Nikki is a Punjabi name that means “little one” and is Haley’s middle name, according to USA Today. She has been going by Nikki since childhood, with a 1984 article describing her as Nikki Randhawa, PolitiFact reported.
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May 2, 2021 · Published May 2, 2021. Image courtesy of John Lamparski/Getty Images. Claim: Former U.N Ambassador Nikki Haley "changed her name" to a less foreign-sounding one. Rating: False. About this...
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Because Nikki is a legal name given to her on her birth certificate with a cultural connection to her heritage, and because she has used this name all of her life, allegations that Nikki Haley...
Feb 19, 2023 · Written by Ann Brown. Feb 19, 2023. Subscribe. 90. SHARES. There is much discussion centered around the newly announced GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley. Is she white? Is she Indian, passing for white? Was she born in India? Haley, 51, is the two-term Governor of South Carolina and the former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations.
Sep 21, 2023 · No, that's not true: Haley, whose birth name is Nimrata (also spelled "Nimarata") Nikki Randhawa, has explained that the middle name on her birth certificate is "Nikki". Like other married women, she changed her last name when she married her husband Michael Haley. The claim was insinuated in a post (archived here) on Facebook on September 17 ...
