Wis congressional candidate (US House Dem) apologizes for 'Injun time' remark

AP ^ | Mon, Oct. 23, 2006

[Indy Pendance]

Do you think this will be played up like the MSM does with Allen?

[mtbopfuyn]

Oh, so when Native Americans say it that's fine and dandy, but let a honkey say it and suddenly everybody's feelings are hurt.

[Argus]

What a gaff. Everybody knows the correct term is "Native American Time".

[Rb ver. 2.0]

MACACA!

[Political Junkie Too]

The term "Injun" also is not necessarily disrespectful, she said.

Tell that to the Macaca.

-PJ

[fish hawk]

As an American Injun, let me say that there is such a thing as Injun time. Yes there is! I'll bet you a buck.

[Dilbert San Diego]

Exactly. Gee, the macaca thing was the big story for at least a week. Insulting Indians about being on Indian time is at least as offensive as someone using a word that nobody in the MSM had heard of until Allen said it. Then they decided it was a racial slur and played it up as such.

We'll see how much coverage this gets. Democrats love American Indians. That's why Indian reservations are such oases of prosperity.

[Political Junkie Too]

What a gaff. Everybody knows the correct term is "Native American Time".

Right. The Big Smoke is on the 12 and the little smoke is on the 9.

-PJ

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Was it Injun Daylight Time or Injun Standard Time?

[onyx]

As an American Injun, let me say that there is such a thing as Injun time.

Many moons?

[NewsJunqui]

Mark Belling on this right now. www.newstalk1130.com

[Indy Pendance]

That's why I posted it, he was just talking about it, I searched and didn't see it posted. If this was a republican, it'd be the breaking news story on all the msm channels.

[billybudd]

"We're on Injun time." Hahaha, hilarious!

Still, won't get the same Macaca attention, even though everybody knows what Injun refers to, as opposed to nobody knowing what Macaca even meant.

[fish hawk]

Many Moons is my girl friend. Do you know her?

[PackerBronco]

Ooops. Gotta fix that typo in the original article ...

Bobbi Webster, a spokeswoman for the Oneida Nation, said Monday that Kagen's comment was not being taken as disrespectful coming from a Republican by tribal members. No apology was sought, she said.

[NewsJunqui]

Here's a link to an earlier discussion when Charlie Sykes reported on it:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1724395/posts

[Indy Pendance]

Thanks, I searched 'injun', and didn't see it posted.

[Unknown Pundit]

Is Injun time anything like stripper time? I knew a dancer a few years back, she explained to me there was real time and stripper time. Stripper time runs 30-90 mins behind real time.... LOL

[MeanWestTexan]

I would suspect it is similar to "15 minutes," which is the time many a native Mexican tells you it will take to do something, even if it takes 3 days.

[maine-iac7]

"Tribal members say that themselves. It is not uncommon to hear somebody come in late and say, 'Oh-Oh. I am running on Indian time.

Blacks also often use the "N" word with each other. It's verboten to others.

and Indians (many still prefer "Indian" to the so-called PC "Native American") - and there's a big difference between "Indian" and "Injun."

However, no sweat , no issue - it was a democrat...

and contrary to what his people said, he WAS asked to apologize. Of course, that's all a democrat ever has to do - a republican would already be outta town on a rail - provided, not by the Indians, but the "outraged" democrats