'Broke-A-Hontas' Seems a Fitting Address For This Cheap Loser....

[The Magistrate]

24. What It Does, Ma'am, Among Other Things, Is Knock a Tool From The Enemy's Hand

The 'pocohontas' nonesense aimed at Sen Warren is offensive, and is intended to be. The intent is not so much to indulge in a racist slur, but to press a false charge of dishonesty. There is no doubt Sen. Warren did learn as childhood lore that her family was part Cherokee (it is a very common belief in Oklahoma), and that any time she did mention it, she did so in good faith. I was raised with family lore that one ancestor fought for the Confederacy in the Shenandoah under Stonewall Jackson, and was the youngest major in that army. My son has a genealogy bug, and on researching the question discovered that said ancestor was in fact the youngest sergeant-major in Sheridan's army in the Shenandoah (where Jackson most famously operated, though he was dead before Sheridan held Union command there). Prior to that, I had certainly on occasion said my ancestry included a Confederate officer. I did not lie, or intend any deception in doing so.

The sounds are similar enough that, to any familiar with a 'broke-a-hontas' usage, it would be certainly called to mind by a cry of 'pocohontas'. It provokes laughter, and laughter induces and communicates scorn.

Put bluntly, I do not think the rest of it requires or deserves engagement. The long dead are dead and remain dead, unaffected by the affairs of the living, and untouchable by them.