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Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville Unsure if White Nationalists Are Racist<!-- wp:html --><p>CNN</p> <p>Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) passed up the chance Monday to condemn white nationalism, instead claiming that it is merely one’s “opinion” that white nationalists are racist.</p> <p>Appearing on CNN’s <em>The Source</em>, Tuberville was asked about a May NPR <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/senator-tommy-tuberville-on-white-nationalists-in-the-military-i-call-them-americans">radio interview</a> in which he called white nationalists “Americans.”</p> <p>Tuberville insisted that he is “totally against any type of racism,” offering up his career as a football coach—at one point at Auburn University—as proof.</p> <p><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/alabama-senator-tommy-tuberville-unsure-if-white-nationalists-are-racist-on-cnn">Read more at The Daily Beast.</a></p><!-- /wp:html -->

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Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) passed up the chance Monday to condemn white nationalism, instead claiming that it is merely one’s “opinion” that white nationalists are racist.

Appearing on CNN’s The Source, Tuberville was asked about a May NPR radio interview in which he called white nationalists “Americans.”

Tuberville insisted that he is “totally against any type of racism,” offering up his career as a football coach—at one point at Auburn University—as proof.

Read more at The Daily Beast.

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