Posted on 08/20/2020 5:21:33 PM PDT by Carlez
I didn't see talk about Biden's 2006 gaffe on Indian-Americans. It would seem imperative. Now with his pick of Indian-American / Jamaican-American Kamala Harris.
Biden explains Indian-American remarks Potential 2008 presidential candidate says statement taken out of context
updated 7/7/2006 7:16:53 PM
WASHINGTON — Facing criticism, potential 2008 presidential candidate Joe Biden has been forced to explain his recent remark that "you cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin' Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent."On a recent edition of the C-SPAN series "Road to the White House," the Delaware senator is shown shaking hands with a man and boasting about his support among Indian-Americans.
"I've had a great relationship. In Delaware, the largest growth in population is Indian-Americans moving from India. You cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin' Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. I'm not joking," Biden said
Is she articulate and clean? Mini mart owner? That’s story book, man
https://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/01/31/biden.obama/
Biden has made other questionable comments. In a June 2006 appearance in New Hampshire, the senator commented on the growth of the Indian-American population in Delaware by saying, “You cannot go into a 7-11 or a Dunkin’ Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. Oh, I’m not joking.”
She lived in Canada, eh. Is she gonna talk aboot that, eh?
And I recently read that she pretended to be Chinese to win an election years ago.
The Democrats need to call their 2020 presidential ticket, “The Pretenders”. You have a Jamaican/Indian American VP candidate pretending to be Black, and you have the presidential candidate pretending to be mentally coherent!
JoeJoe is confused by dots and feathers. Liz Warpath can educate him in the teepee. JoeJoe can sniff her feathers.
C’mon man! You ain’t Black...
“””The Democrats need to call their 2020 presidential ticket, “The Pretenders”””””
Dig up Marlon Brando. I coulda been a Pretenda.
Way call it a gaffe? Should call it a racial slur and hate speech.
It makes perfect sense. I am told Willie Brown once asked Kamala Harris for a Slurpie...
I believe the Ho worked in a 7-11 for a time. While her immigrant parents were trying to get legal.
Trouble is they say on other threads recently that Kamala has been using a phony black accent like Hillary puts on, so she can appeal to genuine blacks.
So she may drop any phony Indian accent if it doesn't pick up any money or votes. And a Jamaican accent would sound like Chubby Checker singing about the Limbo, or the Dayo song by Harry Belafonte. Not many votes there. I wonder what Kamala would sound like if she had been born an American to American parents.
Is there anything real or honest about any Dem? The American people are so gullible.
Charles Curtis of Kansas becomes the first Native American to be elected to the United States Senate on January 23, 1907.
His tenure later as Herbert Hoover’s vice president made him the highest-ranking Native American ever to serve in the federal government.
Curtis was born in the Kansas Territory shortly before it became his state. His mother, Ellen Papin, was of French, Kaw, Osage and Potawatomi heritage, making him 3/8 Native American.
As a child, he learned both French and Kansa, the language of the Kaw people, and spent much of his time on the Kaw reservation. He studied law and opened a practice in Topeka, eventually becoming a prosecutor and securing election to the House of Representatives in 1893.
Curtis’ experience made him a proponent of Native American assimilation into American society. He successfully sponsored the Curtis Act of 1898, a law which stripped many Native American communities of their autonomy and paved the way for the selling of their communal lands to private individuals. Still a member of the Kaw nation, he was entitled to and received an allotment of land when his tribe’s lands were divided up.
As Americans did not directly elect their senators until 1914, Curtis was first elected to the Senate by the Kansas legislature. After the 17th Amendment introduced direct election, the people of Kansas elected him three consecutive times.
A gregarious man who valued personal connections, he developed a reputation both as a leader within the Republican Party and as a consensus builder. He held every leadership position during his tenure in the senate and was instrumental in securing passage of the 19th Amendment, which granted women the right to vote. In 1923, he sponsored the first of several unsuccessful attempts to pass the Equal Rights Act.
Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover named Curtis as his running mate for the 1928 election, which he won in a landslide. Despite his groundbreaking career, near-unanimous respect from his colleagues, and his commitment to women’s rights, Curtis is often overshadowed by Hoover, whose name became synonymous with the stock market crash of 1929 and subsequent Great Depression.
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Charles Curtis of Kansas becomes the first Native American elected to the U.S. Senate
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