Posted on 02/26/2021 3:01:23 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
When Wyoming U.S. Sen. John Barrasso snapped at Deb Haaland during her confirmation hearing, many in Indian Country were incensed.
The exchange, coupled with descriptions of the Interior secretary nominee as “radical” — by other white, male Republicans — left some feeling Haaland is being treated differently because she is a Native American woman.
“If it was any other person, they would not be subjected to being held accountable for their ethnicity,” said Cheryl Andrews-Maltais, chairwoman of the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head Aquinnah in Massachusetts.
Barrasso, former chairman of Senate Indian Affairs Committee, said his uncharacteristic reaction was a sign of frustration over Haaland dodging questions.
“It was horrible. It was disrespectful,” said Rebecca Ortega of Santa Clara Pueblo in Haaland’s home state of New Mexico. “I just feel like if it would have been a white man or a white woman, he would never have yelled like that.”
Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy after two days of hearings called Haaland a “neo-socialist, left-of-Lenin whack job.”
Andrews-Maltais saw “radical” as a code for “you’re an Indian.”
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“ “If it was any other person, they would not be subjected to being held accountable for their ethnicity,” said Cheryl Andrews-Maltais, chairwoman of the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head Aquinnah in Massachusetts.”
Have you heard of Brett Kavanaugh and the way he was treated, bimbo? Get over yourself. If you don’t want to be grilled, don’t accept the nomination. If you want the position, answer the questions.
Cheryl Andrews-Maltais, chairwoman of the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head Aquinnah in Massachusett
Not a lot of Indians in the Gay Head area last I knew...
You’re so patriarchically white supremist! (/s)
Another group for which assimilation has been an abysmal failure; another group watching non-white foreigners arrive and flourish...
“Ape Pee”
Her Elite commissar buddies? Not so much...
Anything but blind acceptance of a PoC is racism.
Whaaat...she prefers grilling pork over beef?
“...left some feeling Haaland is being treated differently because she is a Native American woman.”
Well, of course, because racist...or something.
“Gay Head”
For Lefties, if it ain’t about racism it’s about sex.
Give me a flipping break!
Can’t question any “POC” because, racist!
I am sure the AP posted a similar article when Justice Thomas was attacked mercilessly.
Fake tribe created in 2007 by lawyers and investors to create casinos. Many of them are whiter than the Senators they're criticizing.
Anything whites don’t go along with is racist.
Got it.
Now GFY, AP
She’s the one in the middle....not the one on the left - LOL
Reminds me of this little tidbit from THE LIFE OF BRYAN. Just add Wampanoag where is says Popular Front.
LORETTA: The People’s Front of Judea. Splitters.
REG: We’re the People’s Front of Judea!
LORETTA: Oh. I thought we were the Popular Front.
REG: People’s Front! C-huh.
FRANCIS: Whatever happened to the Popular Front, Reg?
REG: He’s over there.
I really opened a can of worms when I mentioned on FB that the Indians had a problem adjusting because the US was trying to move a Stone Age people into the modern world of the 1800s in ONE generation.
More Stalinazi race-baiting by Absolute Pablum.
Are we talking India Indian, like VP Kamala Harris, or Native American like Sitting Bull?
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