Rick Santorum's racist Native American comments

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The former US senator and CNN political commentator Rick Santorum has sparked outrage among Native Americans, and prompted calls for his dismissal, by telling a rightwing students’ conference that European colonists who came to America “birthed a nation from nothing”.

“There was nothing here. I mean, yes we have Native Americans but candidly there isn’t much Native American culture in American culture,” Santorum told the ultra-conservative Young America’s Foundation’s summit, entitled standing up for faith and freedom, and shared by the group to YouTube.

“We came here and created a blank slate, we birthed a nation from nothing,” he said.

Santorum’s comments, effectively dismissing the millennia-long presence of Native Americans and the genocide inflicted on them as the Christian settlers transformed and expanded their colonies into the United States of America, angered many within the Native American community, and beyond.

“The erasure of Native people and histories, which existed before and survived in spite of a white supremacist empire, is a foundational sin of a make-believe nation,” the activist Nick Estes, a citizen of the Lower Brule Sioux tribe and host of the Red Nation podcast, said on Twitter.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/apr/26/rick-santorum-native-americans-comments-outrage-cnn

 

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my god... 

But I guess that's what happens when your education system, the media and politicians keep telling you constantly that your country is the greatest and best country in the world and anything else is unimportant.

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"there isn’t much Native American culture in American culture" didn't we tried to kill em all? of course there's no native american culture in the mainstream overly whitewashed Usonia? these people are dumb and openly disgusting piece of s

[Angelina Stefania 427]

Another disgusting racist fool. All these old white bigots need to go. 

[Logan 20,827]

Rick be like "What came first: The chicken or the egg?... AMERICA!"

[gothicdream 39,655]

Another day, another Republican being an absolute piece of sh*t 

 

[BabylonSaints 5,359]

Doesn't he realize that the Europeans, coming to the US, did horrible things to Native Americans when they arrived here? This nation was birthed from violence, and proselytizing 

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6 minutes ago, BabylonChristmas said:

Doesn't he realize that the Europeans, coming to the US, did horrible things to Native Americans when they arrived here? This nation was birthed from violence, and proselytizing 

I'm sure he believes white people "liberated" them or some disgusting bs like that

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12 minutes ago, GagaSine said:

I'm sure he believes white people "liberated" them or some disgusting bs like that

I wouldn't doubt if he thinks that. These "Republicans" are poor excuses for human beings

[HuffsAhoy 7,433]

This is why non-white washed, Kumbaya everybody loved each other, Native American history must become mandatory in schools. I didn't learn about the genocide of the Native Americans until I was in the 11th grade!! And that was only because I was lucky enough to have a history teacher who wasn't afraid to teach us the evils that our country had done.