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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Virtue Grandstanding pays well.
At least Fauxahontas took a DNA test.
It’s terrible what her ancestors did.. to her other ancestors.
His Arab ancestors sold his Black ancestors to his White ancestors.
Right wing=racist
Left wing=aware
OFFS? What, one of the descendants from the people that inhabited the Island of Moronica in the Bay of Dumbassistan? Didn’t Dilbert have a name for people like that? “TOPPERs” IIRC.
Note to AOC. Ask the Lakota how a federal gun grab worked out for those very same Lakota at Wounded Knee.
Note to AOC. White people have indigenous roots too.
“It’s terrible what her ancestors did.. to her other ancestors.”
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Yeh, for sure. As an example, Aztecs were particularly hard on virgins. Pun intended 😁…
That’s funny, she is Spanish. She claims she is from Puerto Rico, and the makeup from there is 88+% Spanish. So she is once again pushing BS
Which brings to mind an old joke.
The Aztecs were fixing to have their annual parade of Vestal virgins. The message Runner arrived to the king out of breath and frightened. The king demanded to know the message. The runner said sire, we cannot have the annual parade of Vestal virgins this year. The king became livid and said why not? The messenger said because one is sick and the other refuses to march alone.
Is this kind of like when Madeleine Albright suddenly discovered her Jewish heritage?
Everything these people say and do is for optics. And nothing else
Yep. I was unaware Puerto Ricans were in fact Native Americans.
“Ocasio-Cortez was born into a Catholic family in the New York City borough of the Bronx on October 13, 1989, the daughter of Blanca Ocasio-Cortez (née Cortez) and Sergio Ocasio-Roman.[9] She has a younger brother named Gabriel.[10] Her father was born in the Bronx to a Puerto Rican family and became an architect; her mother was born in Puerto Rico.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandria_Ocasio-Cortez
Also found this: “Commonly considered a variation of Cortés, Cortéz is a Spanish or Portuguese (Cortês) surname”
LOL! You are right, but she is too dense to realize that
Leftist Evolution thery would hold that the only “indigenous” person was tha fabled “African Eve”.
Everyone else after that was a warring, genocidal, conqueror.
Didn’t even have Whitey to blame for a few million years.
Just looking at her connects me to my viking heritage
I had a job hauling material to the pipeline.
I never saw cortez or Woodley there.
I wanna see a DNA test, like Fauxchahontas took. Easy and cheap.
I got one, just for giggles. As suspected, ancestors (several lines) were slaves, including one from central Mexico. So, if the morons in charge out thisaway in CaCaLand really go forward with reparations I get a cut — I am of slave blood, oppressed Amerind, and can prove it.
So, Ms village idiot from NYC (where else?), prove it.
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