“I just want to thank you because you’re very, very special people,” Trump said to the group. “You were here long before any of us were here — although we have a representative in Congress who they say was here a long time ago. They call her Pocahontas. But you know what? I like you. Because you are special.”Good Lord. I can see why they hate him. But it's still hard to type when I'm laughing.
They're standing in front a portrait of Andrew Jackson, the president who signed the Indian Removal Act.
So much irony. So much to be ashamed of. Michelle Obama would remind us, in a capitol built by slaves.
Elizabeth Warren said,
“It is deeply unfortunate that the president of the United States cannot even make it through a ceremony honoring these heroes without having to throw out a racial slur,”Deeply unfortunate. Not just regular unfortunate. Tonight I read all over the place discussions about if this is a racial slur.
Is saying, "Geronimo" a racial slur when you jump out of a plane? Could be.
To Politico's credit they include Sarah Sander's response when this was brought up. She said that saying "Pocahontas" is a racial slur is ridiculous.
“Look, I think Sen. Warren was very offensive when she lied about something specifically to advance her career,” Sanders said. “I don’t understand why no one’s asking about that question and why that isn’t constantly covered.”That's what I was thinking the whole time. But Sarah Sanders understates it. Warren is an advantaged white woman with possible native ancestry with none of the native experience who took the place of a full blooded native that was opened to native people with genuine native background and experience. Then parlayed that ivy league education to political position. And all that's cool so long as she says and does the right things.
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Elizabeth Warren never vouchsafed for her extraordinary claim, and she did go quite a distance on that claim, and she hopes to go even farther on that claim. She could make her detractors eat Crow, or look like callow Utes, with a simple DNA test. Maybe she's withholding that card. Maybe she's offended that she's asked to play it in the first place. But that's where we are these days. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
Ha ha. You're killing me over here.
Media not at all interested in her false claim.
Fauxcahontas sticks.
When democrats lie, media look the other way. Every. dang. day.
The officer who yelled, "Geronimo", wanted to show he wasn't scared.
chickelit said...
She could make her detractors eat Crow, or look like callow Utes, with a simple DNA test.
Better if she played the Chey-ennie because someone might Sioux, Her claim to Indian ancestry is Apache one and she should Hopi the whole thing blows over on a Kiowa it makes her look Zuni. She'd be up the Creek without a Pawnee.
Possible native ancestry? No way! If she had any we would have heard about it by now.
Her entire claim relies on the blitherings of her Aunt Bea whose opinion was based on the (I think dubiously sourced "fact") that she (Faux) has high cheek bones, just like them Indians. The whole thing is absurd. The fact that she relied on this obviously absurd claim in order to gain entrance to Harvard (and the fact that Harvard accepted this without any investigation) is malicious. She not only culturally appropriated she denied someone of actual native/Indian ancestry admittance to Harvard. Vile!
She's like those morons in the DNA ads on TV where the white people send their DNA in so they can find out they have a claim to nonwhiteness. SO EXCITING! WHAT A RELIEF! Buncha putzes.
Warren's "outrage" at Trump's jibe would bury her if Americans still had a sense of humor. Do they? I dunno.
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