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Kids Told Not to Dress as 'Indians' at Plimoth Plantation
CNSNews.com ^ | 11/27/08 | Sara Burrows

Posted on 11/27/2008 4:16:10 AM PST by Bulldawg Fan

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To: Bulldawg Fan

“Coombs said she understands it was not the girl’s intention to be offensive – that she was only trying to “honor the Indians.”

How about that, the commissar of Indian Culture sees offense where there is none and shows no “sensitivity” to a young girl. She could have made this a pleasant and memorable experience for the girl, she chose to make it an unpleasant experience .... the girl, and her family, will now associate the plantation with “that donkey”. What a bitter, sad woman this Coombs must be.


21 posted on 11/27/2008 4:58:32 AM PST by Peter Horry (Mount Up Everybody and Ride to the Sound of the Guns .. Pat Buchanan)
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To: Dallas59

The offended should also remove their flush toilets and stop using tampons.


22 posted on 11/27/2008 4:59:11 AM PST by AD from SpringBay (We deserve the government we allow.)
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To: Popman
Does she think she would have gotten so morbidly obese if the round-eyes hadn't invaded “her” country?

She probably would have never been hatched.

I'm part injun myself and find this pig sickening.

23 posted on 11/27/2008 5:01:31 AM PST by Into the Vortex
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To: Bulldawg Fan
The use of the word “indigenous” is totally inappropriate. All human beings are indigenous to Africa, and spread across the world from there. The only difference between the migration from Asia and the migration from Europe is that the Europeans had the inclination and where with all to make a record of it.
24 posted on 11/27/2008 5:12:07 AM PST by beef (Who Killed Kennewick Man?)
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To: Popman; dighton; aculeus; martin_fierro; Jeremiah Jr
The offending moonbat ...

Yeah no kidding. My eyes! My eyes!

25 posted on 11/27/2008 5:15:19 AM PST by Ezekiel (Strange things are afoot at the Circle K.)
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To: Bulldawg Fan

She should be fired; then close down the whole operation, and use it to teach the “Mayflower Compact”


26 posted on 11/27/2008 5:22:06 AM PST by LetMarch (If a man knows the right way to live, and does not live it, there is no greater coward--Anonymous))
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To: Bulldawg Fan
Linda Coombs

Alan's mother.

He hasn't a wife, but does have a partner.

27 posted on 11/27/2008 5:23:57 AM PST by IbJensen (The fat lady has sung and it was awful. Coming up: Maya Angelou!)
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To: G.Mason

Her real name is probably Hoof In Steaming Pile.

The MOST leftwing of all liberals are those that majored in “Native American Studies”. The school textbook industry is stuffed with them, and they spend a lot of time censoring and editing textbooks.

I forget who the author was (Thought it was Linda Chavez, but can’t find that book in her bibliography) but she talked about how the name of a mountain was edited out of a book, because it was sacred to some tribe and looking at it or saying its name was somehow disrespectful.

Reminds me of the scene in “The Holy Grail” where the Knights Who Say Ni cannot bear to hear the word “it”.


28 posted on 11/27/2008 5:29:35 AM PST by rlmorel ("A barrel of monkeys is not fun. In fact, a barrel of monkeys can be quite terrifying!")
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To: Bulldawg Fan

More White guilt and doing away with another cultural icon - Thanksgiving.


29 posted on 11/27/2008 5:30:00 AM PST by Leftism is Mentally Deranged (liberalism = serious mental deficiency)
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To: nonsporting

She was almost named “Droops to Bellybutton”


30 posted on 11/27/2008 5:31:05 AM PST by rlmorel ("A barrel of monkeys is not fun. In fact, a barrel of monkeys can be quite terrifying!")
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To: Bulldawg Fan
"...We’re here to make a bridge between people, not to just send them packing..."

Remember. Not JUST to send them packing. If you listen to liberals long enough and carefully enough, they will eventually tell you exactly what they are thinking.

31 posted on 11/27/2008 5:34:21 AM PST by rlmorel ("A barrel of monkeys is not fun. In fact, a barrel of monkeys can be quite terrifying!")
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To: billorites

For sure. Almost enough to put me off the upcoming turkey dinner ... but I shall recover. ;)


32 posted on 11/27/2008 5:40:53 AM PST by G.Mason
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To: rlmorel

LOL ... “Hoof In Steaming Pile” bumps.


33 posted on 11/27/2008 5:41:04 AM PST by G.Mason
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"...Coombs said good intentions do not matter..."

Gee. This from a liberal moonbat? She isn't consistent. To liberals, "good intentions" are a get out of jail free card, for everything from little girls wearing homemade Indian costumes to trillion dollar subprime mortgage meltdowns caused by irreponsible lending.

If word of her comments gets out to here fellow liberals, she is going to realize she is "off the reservation".

Oh, belay that. I forgot that it is okay to deceive, lie and dissemble in order to advance the liberal agenda. "Rules for Radicals" and all that.

Did this article press a button in me today? You bet it did. I live in Massachusetts, and the state government would go right along with this. Now, we have these SAME people who are going to be not just in the State House, but in the White House as well.

34 posted on 11/27/2008 5:42:30 AM PST by rlmorel ("A barrel of monkeys is not fun. In fact, a barrel of monkeys can be quite terrifying!")
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To: Vaquero

Boy, does that bring back memories! Popeye! Greatest cartoon character ever created!


35 posted on 11/27/2008 5:42:31 AM PST by nfldgirl (Tribe Member: 'Runs with Rush')
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To: Bulldawg Fan

...her, and the horse she rode in on!


36 posted on 11/27/2008 5:42:34 AM PST by mathurine
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To: Bulldawg Fan
“Native people find it offensive when they see a non-native person dressed up and playing Indian. It’s perceived as us being made fun of,” Coombs told CNSNews.com.

Unless they are Wade Churchill. I suggest Coombs search the Web for various Powwows and explain the presence of Blue-Eyed Blonde people at them.

Then she can explain the big flap from the '70's when the Mafia tribes became interested in casinos. Local tribes were studied by anthropologists in order to determine tribal status and identities. Nowadays, DNA helps, but in a part of the country where people have been immigrating and interbreeding for centuries, it is not that easy a call because so many characteristics like epicanthal folds have been lost.

It is not impossible that the student may have been more "Indian" than Coombs. Some of the older generations "Looked it" more.

37 posted on 11/27/2008 5:45:26 AM PST by Gorzaloon (Roark, Architect.)
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To: Popman

Guilty!


38 posted on 11/27/2008 5:57:50 AM PST by Emperor Palpatine ("I love democracy. I love Free Republic")
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To: Bulldawg Fan

Insanity is what that is. Makes the others look bad.


39 posted on 11/27/2008 6:01:50 AM PST by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: Bulldawg Fan; aculeus; Charles Henrickson; dead; dighton; Ezekiel; Lazamataz; mikrofon; ...
“The tour guides here are real people, Native people. Our nationalities are not fodder for joke material, because then you get into the aspect of racism and historical erasure,” Coombs said.
Most people have no idea that what they say or wear might be hurtful, insulting or offensive, she said.
“That’s why we’re trying to educate people about our culture and to correct stereotypes and wrong information,” she said. “We’re here to make a bridge between people, not to just send them packing.”

It's like the least-funnest Indian Casino EVER.

40 posted on 11/27/2008 6:12:49 AM PST by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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