Posted on 06/18/2020 7:35:48 AM PDT by rktman
It's impossible not to notice that the left has made a cottage industry out of trashing Republicans and conservatives as racists and "angry white guys" while elevating Democrats as the party of racial diversity.
As the Washington Examiner pointed out, "Joe Biden's pledge to choose a woman as his running mate, and his consideration of several black female officeholders for the role, has spurred considerable chatter about diversity in the nation's second-highest office."
Charles Curtis, a Republican, was the first individual "with acknowledged non-European ancestry" to become vice president, the outlet reported.
Serving under Herbert Hoover from 1929 through 1933, Curtis was either one-eighth or three-eighths Native American. (Either way, he boasted a significantly higher amount of Native American DNA than Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who is 1/1,024th Cherokee.)
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
Curtis would be celebrated by the media if had a “D” next to his name. Reportedly he spoke Kansa (Kaw) as a small child before he learned English.
Yep. He's ignored for the same reason they ignore Tim Scott getting elected in SC. If Scott was a RAT, the media would have fawning coverage of him on the cover of Newsweek and Time (captions like "Meet 21st Century South Carolina"), saying his election as "the first black Senator from the deep south since reconstruction" is historic, and it shows how much Americans have "grown" since then by white southerners being willing to elect a black man to represent the whole state and blah blah blah.
But he has a "R" next to his name, so it's Tim who?
You nailed it cletus
How much did the public know about Curtis’s Indian heritage?
Not sure, but in order to find out, I’ll have to crank up the ‘wayback machine’ to go check. :-)
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