Posted on 08/22/2020 3:10:58 AM PDT by knighthawk
A radio station in Cleveland fired a news anchor this week after her referred to Democrat Kamala Harris as the nation’s “first colored vice presidential candidate,” according to reports.
Anchor Kyle Cornell, 26, used the description of Harris in a news promo spot that aired during WTAM radio’s broadcast of a Cleveland Indians baseball game, Cleveland.com reported.
Some baseball fans quickly posted negative reactions on social media, Cleveland's WKYC-TV reported.
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Negro fatigue.
It’s a real thing.
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
...the nation’s “first colored vice presidential candidate,”...
That’s offensive, but “first vice presidential candidate of color” is OK? The stupid, it burns!
What is the difference between colored people and people of color?
The people being referred to chose the latter. They had no say in the former.
Fair enough.
Kamala never considered herself black till recently. She always called herself Indian-American or Asian-American.
That’s why she so gleefully went after blacks men for minor drug charges.
But always remember, this stuff can be turned back on them and used to destroy them.
Make your opponent live up to their own rules. - Saul Alinsky
I hope there is some accountability for this race-baiting; people are dying, and races have never been further apart.
At only 26 years old, how was this guy to know? Shouldn’t he be cut a little slack for being young? He was not alive during segregation.
Precisely.
Yes. All double plus ungood.
The things people do to keep PC alive sometimes the memos are late.
So stupid. Colored is some terrible insult. But “of color” is just fine. SMH.
I guess he should have said Tanned 7/11 Employee.
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