and yet those being honored that day had NO problem with it...
Posted on 11/30/2017 10:21:12 AM PST by mikelets456
President Trump invoking Pocahontas as a derogatory term during an event honoring Navajo Code Talkers cuts deep for many Native Americans.
The White House denied the President was using the name as a racial slur, but several Navajo Nation leaders and residents said on Tuesday that Trump has once again managed to make the name offensive.
Navajo Nation council delegate Amber Kanazbah Crotty called Trump’s remark “problematic” and said his words diminish the experience of Pocahontas and all Native Americans.
Crotty said in a statement that Trump’s “careless” comment is the “latest example of systemic, deep-seated ignorance of Native Americans and our intrinsic right to exist and practice our ways of life.”
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and yet those being honored that day had NO problem with it...
they had enough class to not do it at the ceremony unlike the president who was inappropriate in the wrong setting.
Pocahontas, Pocahontas, Pocahontas!
Geronimo.....
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