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AOC says she had ‘awakening’ about her indigenous heritage at Standing Rock in 2016
NYPost.com ^ | 6/5/22 | Sam Raskin

Posted on 06/05/2022 5:33:14 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda

AOC says she had ‘awakening’ about her indigenous heritage at Standing Rock in 2016

She’s gone from woke to “awakened.”

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez claims she experienced an “awakening” and got in touch with her indigenous ancestry in 2016, while demonstrating against the Dakota Access Pipeline at the Standing Rock Indian Reservation.

During a lengthy Instagram story Q&A session Saturday, the left-wing lawmaker spoke for roughly three minutes about people native to the Caribbean, known as Taíno, and the Americas, stressing that many Taíno ways are still alive and have not been entirely wiped out by European colonization.

“I really, really feel you, and understand you on this,” AOC says in the video, in response to an unnamed self-identified Boricua, or Puerto Rican, Bronx resident who said they “want to learn more” about their Taino ancestral traditions. “In fact, I feel like one of the things that first started awakening and connecting me deeply to my indigenous heritage was connecting with the Lakota Sioux at Standing Rock.”

Ocasio-Cortez — who has represented parts of the Bronx and Queens since 2019 — expressed gratitude toward various indigenous people for welcoming her when she protested against the controversial Dakota Access oil pipeline in North Dakota.

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Curious how the media never tags people like her as racist, even though race is what she constantly focuses on.
1 posted on 06/05/2022 5:33:14 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda
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Congratulations you idiots in NYC, you elected a wacko who is never in your city much less your district and instead thinks being in elected office gives her the right to tour the country on the taxpayer dime like Hillary did when Senator of NY.

What has she done for NYC? Nothing. NYC is going through a crime wave, murders, robberies, rapes every single day, multiple times a day and she’s playing Pocahontas in North Dakota making sure gas prices go up even higher.


2 posted on 06/05/2022 5:36:45 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free, the USA will never have equal justice under the law)
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So I should just awaken my Scottish heritage after watching Braveheart and start wearing kilts and playing bagpipes (I know the timeline fit those don’t match).

She’s the new Pocahontas.


3 posted on 06/05/2022 5:37:34 AM PDT by Nathan _in_Arkansas (Hoist the black flag and begin slitting throats. )
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Standing Rock was a big leftist propaganda operation. Flavor of the day for sure.


4 posted on 06/05/2022 5:38:18 AM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Soooooo, the dope who likely 98.6% Conquistador identifies as indigenous.

Okey dokey then.


5 posted on 06/05/2022 5:42:22 AM PDT by GeneralisimoFranciscoFranco (I love liberals. They taste like chicken.)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

She’s like a typical high school student, or first year college student who understands only a small amount about an issue but becomes a ‘believer’.


6 posted on 06/05/2022 5:42:34 AM PDT by neverevergiveup
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Fruit. Cake.


8 posted on 06/05/2022 5:51:12 AM PDT by moovova
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It’s terrible what her ancestors did.. to her other ancestors.


9 posted on 06/05/2022 5:51:57 AM PDT by AC86UT89
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I wish she would have an awakening as to how stupid, ignorant, and utterly unqualified she is.
10 posted on 06/05/2022 5:52:29 AM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. )
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Some of my genetic heritage goes back to the Iberian Peninsula. Where do I apply for my special privileges and victimhood certification?

I want free college, free wifi, free rent and a special month.


11 posted on 06/05/2022 5:57:20 AM PDT by I want the USA back (To get the USA back - we have to first kick the dems out of office.)
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“In fact, I feel like one of the things that first started awakening and connecting me deeply to my indigenous heritage was connecting with the Lakota Sioux at Standing Rock.”

This would be comparable to my declaring that my Romanian cultural re-awakening occurred when I was kissing the Blarney Stone in Ireland.

Same continent, but entirely different cultural realms.

Regards,

12 posted on 06/05/2022 5:58:06 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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AOC = Always Obnoxious Citizen


13 posted on 06/05/2022 6:05:45 AM PDT by antidemoncrat ( adn)
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Descendent of Hernando Cortez?


14 posted on 06/05/2022 6:08:46 AM PDT by Rio
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Like most Puerto Ricans (including Mrs. Clemenza) AOC probably has both indigenous and African ancestry. However, as any true red person would tell her, there is a big difference between actually being Native (where’s the tribal enrollment card?) and being a person of native ancestry.


15 posted on 06/05/2022 6:08:50 AM PDT by Clemenza (In event of a Civil War, a face diaper is a great way to spot the enemy)
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And yet there’s no denying that she has inherited a Stupidity Gene.


16 posted on 06/05/2022 6:12:47 AM PDT by drSteve78 (Je suis Deplorable STILL)
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The idiots are the ones who are all in for “identity politics”. I worked with a Hispanic man who proclaimed that AOC was a “strong Latin woman”. He and other voters like him are completely delusional.


17 posted on 06/05/2022 6:13:10 AM PDT by LottieDah (If only those who speak so eloquently on behalf of animals would do so on behalf of the unborn.”)
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She’s friggen Puerto Rican and as American indian as I am.


18 posted on 06/05/2022 6:15:51 AM PDT by skeeter
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AOC may have had a Reawakening but she is still braindead.


19 posted on 06/05/2022 6:18:24 AM PDT by chopperk
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Only took her 6 years to remember ,LOL


20 posted on 06/05/2022 6:20:57 AM PDT by butlerweave
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