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Norbert

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Mon Apr 26, 2021, 05:18 PM Apr 2021

Now the Right Wing Extremists are going after Native Americans [View all]

CNN senior political commentator Rick Santorum claimed that Christian settlers from Europe had to build America “from nothing,” adding that “there was nothing here” and “there isn’t much Native American culture in American culture.”

Speaking at the right-wing student organization Young America’s Foundation’s Standing Up For Faith & Freedom conference last week, Santorum—a former Pennsylvania senator and GOP presidential candidate—insisted that America was built on a blank-slate continent.

In doing so, he focused his attention solely on white European Christians who settled in the “New World” in the 17th century while ignoring the fact that there was an indigenous population that had been in America for centuries beforehand...


They won't stop until they convince everyone the U.S is a white nation from day one.

https://news.yahoo.com/cnn-rick-santorum-dismisses-native-163008310.html?soc_src=social-sh&soc_trk=fb&tsrc=fb
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Iroquois Confederacy, he missed that. irisblue Apr 2021 #1
Yep. . .my mother's side of the family is Haudenosaunee AZLD4Candidate Apr 2021 #6
Then you probably know that wnylib Apr 2021 #15
Considering I havea PhD in history and her PhD dissertation was on the Great Binding Law. . . AZLD4Candidate Apr 2021 #17
Beats my BA in Spanish studies and minor wnylib Apr 2021 #22
The real legacy of America: Built from stolen land and stolen labor. brush Apr 2021 #2
The original cancel culture malaise Apr 2021 #3
No more corn products, no more potato or tomato products, no more chocolate. Crunchy Frog Apr 2021 #7
Correct is right malaise Apr 2021 #8
And chocolate, pumpkin, pecans, tomatoes, turkey, wnylib Apr 2021 #16
You think that ignorant racist has a clue? malaise Apr 2021 #18
I'd be happy to inform him. But he wnylib Apr 2021 #24
Not to mention the genocide.... SergeStorms Apr 2021 #14
One of my favorites malaise Apr 2021 #19
England entered a country free of pollution, a country with clean water, a country with people who katmondoo Apr 2021 #4
☝️☝️☝️☝️ PortTack Apr 2021 #5
Yep uponit7771 Apr 2021 #13
+1 2naSalit Apr 2021 #20
A little heads up for pRick Sphinctorum: 11 Bravo Apr 2021 #9
+1 2naSalit Apr 2021 #21
And the city and county of Erie, wnylib Apr 2021 #25
Santorum is a dangerous NAZI moron. Kid Berwyn Apr 2021 #10
Slaves were brought to the US KT2000 Apr 2021 #11
CNN needs to ditch Sanctorectum. ASAP. n/t TygrBright Apr 2021 #12
90 pct of Native Americans died as a result of the viruses us Euros brought over with us. roamer65 Apr 2021 #23
A large number of Native Americans wnylib Apr 2021 #26
No disagreement here. roamer65 Apr 2021 #27
anyone wonder if this is because of sec halaand? mopinko Apr 2021 #28
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