WND "A number of Democrats and members of the media (but I repeat myself) have suggested it is an insult to refer to Sen. Elizabeth Warren as “Pocahontas.”
"Some, including Warren, called it a “racial slur.”
"The controversy arose when President Trump, speaking to Navajo veterans Monday, made this comment – an obvious allusion to Warren: “I just want to thank you because you are very, very special people. You were here long before any of us were here. Although, we have a representative in Congress who they say was here a long time ago … longer than you – they call her Pocahontas!”
"Some, including Warren, called it a “racial slur.”
"The question is how so?
"If what Trump said was an insult, to whom?
"As someone with far more native American ancestry than Warren, I would have to say that posing as a native American impostor for advantage in academia and in one’s career, as she did, is the most insulting, most offensive and most exploitive form of cultural and ethnic appropriation I’ve seen in public life.
"Clearly, without articulating his view, I would suggest President Trump saw it the same way I did.
"I’ve noticed Rush Limbaugh, too, employs the Pocahontas sobriquet for Warren. I’ve used it myself. It’s a joke, of course. It is indeed intentionally demeaning, offensive and insulting – but to Warren, not to Pocahontas or to native Americans generally.
"Pocahontas is an American heroine. Elizabeth Warren is an American punchline.
Remember, Warren’s not "really a native American. She’s a shameless impostor, a fraudster, a joke – someone who claimed to be a native American to elevate her otherwise boring and undistinguished background and personality and to exploit for her own personal advantage a heritage that did not belong to her. In a way, she could be accurately described as a kind of thief – one who steals the identity of others." . . .
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