Al Franken to Dem senators: Call Trump racist to his face for Elizabeth Warren Pocahontas slur

[kpete]

Link to tweet

Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) suggested on Sunday that Democratic senators should have stood up to President Donald Trump and accused him of racism when he recently used the racial slur “Pocahontas” to refer to Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA).

In a so-called “listening session” with 10 Democratic senators last week, Trump reportedly got no pushback when he repeatedly called Warren “Pocahontas” while making the point that she had become the face of “your party.”

“I heard this from a couple of my colleagues who were there,” Franken told CNN’s Jake Tapper on Sunday. “And I — I would have said something.”

“I would have said, ‘Mr. President, with due respect, that’s racist. Please stop doing that. I’m on Indian Affairs (subcommittee). This is completely unacceptable. You really should stop doing this. It doesn’t serve anybody.'”

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/02/al-franken-to-dem-senators-call-trump-racist-to-his-face-for-elizabeth-warren-pocahontas-slur/

[samnsara]

1. we dems..

..have got to stop being so friggen polite (or afraid)..we need some ball busters in our party.

[ProudProgressiveNow]

18. +1 nt

[onetexan]

19. that's right

it's time to call the orange idiot what he is - a racist. Being polite has gotten Dems nowhere in this election and post-election period.

[Initech]

20. I agree! We have too much at stake in 2018!

Time to fight these assholes back and fight them hard!

[hvn_nbr_2]

2. I want to know who the ten are

We need to hold our own wimps, appeasers, and enablers accountable too.

[uponit7771]

8. +1, we have to get dem reps to act first

[Blue_true]

21. I agree. Tell us who the 10 Democratic Senators were.

Their silence in the face of racism is unacceptable.

[dgibby]

3. Not only should they have called him out

for his racist remarks, they should have gotten up and walked out.

[Paladin]

4. Exactly so---they should have walked out.

That's the sort of courage I demand from Democratic lawmakers now. I intend to inform their offices of this tomorrow; would appreciate other DUers doing the same.

And, oh yeah: Warren/Franken For President 2020, if not sooner.

[demmiblue]

5. Yep. n/t

[uponit7771]

6. +1

[DK504]

15. This needs to be on every show on the media

"news" programs. Holy CRAP!!!!!! And no one stood up for her?

[red dog 1]

24. + 1

[uponit7771]

7. The dem who does this first is going to get 25usd from me... I pray they stand up and stand out

[ehrnst]

9. Franken is the future of the resistance, I'm convinced. (nt)

[shenmue]

10. Me too

[ProudLib72]

11. I'm unsure if this is racism

or misogyny in racist clothing.

If the repukes have no problem with him calling Warren Pocahontas, they shouldn't have any trouble with us calling him Hitler. The analogy is much stronger in his case anyway.

[OnDoutside]

27. stick with calling him a racist...it's easier to spell for many...

[Leith]

12. He Did It During the Campaign, Too

He said it a couple times, was told it was offensive, he laughed, and repeated it a couple more times.

He despises Senator Warren and he won't hesitate to attack her or anyone who defends her.

[DDySiegs]

13. I am Happy to See this Initiative from Senator Franken. And I would Propose an Important Extension.

News anchors and interviewers, and Democratic office holders, should in the future call Trumpian spokespersons and Trump himself out to their faces when they lie. As an example, I think the next interviewer or anchor who is lied to by Kelly Anne Conway should interrupt her, in mid sentence if necessary, and say something like: "There you go again, Ms Conway; you lie all the time. Are you even capable of telling the truth?" Calling out racism, as Senator Franken suggests, is of the greatest importance; but calling out the lies of Trump and his minions is also very highly important.

[Cha]

14. "I would have said, Mr. President, with due respect, thats racist. Please stop doing that. Im on

Indian Affairs (subcommittee). This is completely unacceptable. You really should stop doing this. It doesn’t serve anybody.'”

Good on Senator Franken shining a light on this and calling damn blotus trump a "racist".

Damn!

[MrPurple]

17. The Pocahantas/Fauxahantas slur against her has become very mainstream, though

I've posted on a NE Patriots message board that has a politics section and a large number of people there call her Fauxahantas there with relish. I don't think that going after Trump on using that would accomplish anything.

I've voted for Warren, I like her, but if she ran for President, I'd be concerned that the right has been too effective vilifying her and the result could be like with Hillary. I think there's a sexist element to the way that has worked for them, and I don't like it, but I'd probably vote for a different Presidential candidate in the primaries because of it.

[Cha]

23. We cannot be scared of them.

[bdamomma]

33. Well Cha

it seems like the repigs are afraid of their constituents, calling them names and running away from them.

We aren't afraid of them, each day we are getting bolder and they are getting scared.

[Cha]

34. They should be scared, bdamomma. Facts and Truth are

are headed straight at them and they're already feeling the pain of their lies not working about "the Death Panels in Obamacare"

And, obviously many more truths are coming out or we wouldn't be having such mass Protests!

[bucolic_frolic]

16. I refer to Trump as "Chief Birther"

How did he wrestle the title from Russian Dentist Orley Taitz?

[tavernier]

22. Our protestors risk life and limb

out in the streets, so you big chickens better start working for the money we pay you!!!!!

[red dog 1]

25. WHO ARE THE 10 DEM SENATORS?

I want their names!


K&R, thanks for posting, kpete

[guillaumeb]

26. Why stop with Trump?

The GOP is a racist party. Certainly there is some camouflage in the form of the very few GOP non-white politicians, but the party only wins by appealing to racist whites.

And by suppressing non-white votes.

[heaven05]

28. why

is the democratic leadership, outside Maxine Waters...Independent Bernie Sanders..Sen. Franken, so fearful of the boy potus and his band of racist men and women? 8 years and NO ONE of prominence spoke up for President Obama and the in your face racism he had to endure, no one called out the racist obstructionist pigs on the right. We seem so fucking weak to me. Spineless doesn't even begin to describe what I have felt about our 'leadership' for 8+ years now!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Pochontas is pretty goddamn in your face racism. I quit Uber because of that goddamn CEO...the local group texting me and asking why I stopped driving for the asshole, I told them...wasn't hard at all. We have got to Speak up, RESIST and per Dr. Warren, PERSIST. I am sick of cowardice everywhere...because of these fucking nazis in office now....

[demigoddess]

29. They should say we don't talk to racists and walk out of every meeting the

minute 45 misbehaves. Deny him the attention.

[mercuryblues]

30. here are some of them

Thursday’s meeting was an attempt to foster bipartisan support for Gorsuch, whose confirmation requires 60 votes in the Senate, where Republicans hold 52 seats. Attending were Sens. Joe Manchin, Heidi Heitkamp, Jon Tester, Lamar Alexander, Chris Coons, Shelley Moore Capito, John Cornyn, Chuck Grassley, Joe Donnelly and Michael Bennet.


http://www.politico.com/story/2017/02/trump-voter-fraud-senators-meeting-234909

[Dallasdem1988]

31. I agree

But does calling them racist even do anything? Mos. Deplorables I talk to don't care if you call them racist.

Sometimes I feel we are just preaching to the choir

[bdamomma]

32. What the hell???

who were the 10 Senators??? and they did not say anything??? 45 must love this, they are bowing down to him, or 45 has them scared what does he have on them???? or they know how unstable he is.

[Tatiana]

35. I really expect better out of Tester and Bennet.

Manchin and the others... they're not even centrist or conservaDems. They're pretty much moderate Republicans.

[mountain grammy]

36. Michael Bennet? My senator.

I will be writing to him again. I plan to write to all of them.

[Liberty Belle]

37. He should be called a racist for many more reasons than this.

Media should call him racist for:

having a white supremacist, Bannon, on his staff and sitting in on National Security Council meetings,
appointing someone who is anti-civil rights and voting rights to be Attorney General,
calling Mexicans rapists and murderers
ripping families apart, deporting parents with children here when they are not crimininals
stereotyping all Muslims as terrorists
denigrating black protesters at his rallies
ignoring police violence against black people, while calling for more protection for police
his actions against Native Americans at Standing Rock

to name just a few. Trump needs to be told that these actions are racist on their face; you can't do those things and claim they are not a racist, and if he wants to not be called racist, he needs to undo such actions and stop acting like a KKK grand wizard.

[Vinnie From Indy]

38. Love Al Franken!

Smart, funny and always well prepared!