As I pointed out to you
ealier in this post, Native Americans feel differently concerning what Trump said about Elizabeth Warren. And as I asked you earlier in my previous post... Are you or any other conserative Trump supporter in the moral position to decide if Trump is mocking Native Americans or not? Do you know that he first used this slur at an official White House ceremony to honor the Navajo Code Talkers? Do you not understand why that is insulting? Do you even know the real story of Pocahontas and why Native Americans are upset at the misuse of her name like that?
NCAI Condemns President Trump’s Derogatory Use of Pocahontas
Native American Groups denounce Trump's 'Pocahontas' Comment
Trump's 'Pocahontas' insult makes a mockery of Native Americans' diverse history
Is Pocahontas A Racial Slur? Native Americans Say They're Insulted by Trump's Remarks
The dark history of Pocahontas, whose name Trump has evoked to slam Elizabeth Warren
Is 'Pocahontas' a racial slur? Eric Trump defends his dad, but Native Americans say otherwise
Navajo Nation delegate slams Trump over 'Pocahontas' slur and says Native Americans are 'not pawns to promote false narratives'
And again... concerning Trump's snide comment referring to Wounded Knee.
Trump invokes one of the worst Native American massacres to mock Elizabeth Warren
Also read this article excerpt I also posted in another
earlier post here.
Trump’s Use of Wounded Knee to Mock Elizabeth Warren Angers Native Americans
It’s been more than a century since the Wounded Knee massacre and the Battle of Little Bighorn, but both of these notorious conflicts were thrust into a national conversation about Native Americans and race following President Trump’s Sunday night tweet directed at Senator Elizabeth Warren.
Mr. Trump, responding to
a Q. and A. that Ms. Warren posted on Instagram Live a couple of weeks ago, used a line referring to Wounded Knee and Bighorn that mocked Ms. Warren’s claims of Native American heritage.
In
Ms. Warren’s video, posted on Dec. 31, the same day she
entered the 2020 race for president, she drank a beer in her kitchen and complimented her husband, who made a brief cameo.
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— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump)
January 14, 2019
He faced swift criticism from Native Americans.
“+300 of my people were massacred at Wounded Knee,” the writer and tribal lawyer Ruth H. Hopkins, who is Sioux,
said on Twitter. “Most were women and children. This isn’t funny, it’s cold, callous, and just plain racist.”
Ms. Hopkins said in an interview on Monday that the trauma of the massacre hasn’t been erased by time.
“It happened in 1890; it’s not so far removed. Those killed are peoples’ grandparents and great-grandparents,” she said. “It’s further compounded by the fact that the soldiers who murdered Lakota at Wounded Knee received medals of honor for it and those medals have never been rescinded.”
Storm Reyes, 69, who is Coast Salish and lives on a reservation in Washington State, said on Monday that Wounded Knee and other such massacres are deeply ingrained in the memories of Native Americans.
“As a Native, Trump’s tweet was equivalent to making a ‘joke’ about 9/11, Pearl Harbor or the Holocaust,” she said. “I found it awful that not only did Trump use this tragedy as a joke, weapon and insult, but that his ignorance of American history is so great that he didn’t even know that Wounded Knee was a massacre and not a battle.”
In a
statement, Jefferson Keel, the president of the National Congress of American Indians, condemned, “in the strongest possible terms, the casual and callous use of these events as part of a political attack.”
“Hundreds of Lakota, Cheyenne, and Arapaho people lost their lives at the hands of the invading U.S. Army during these events,’’ he said, “and their memories should not be desecrated as a rhetorical punch line.”
For those who could use a history refresher, some context:
READ THE HISTORY DOCUMENTED IN THIS ARTICLE. READ THE REST OF THE ARTICLE.
Although you should probably do it at the ballot box.
