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Judi Lynn

(160,516 posts)
Tue May 5, 2015, 01:51 AM May 2015

Air Force general lost job over ethnic slur

Source: Associated Press

Air Force general lost job over ethnic slur
By Sig Christenson | May 4, 2015 | Updated: May 4, 2015 4:47pm

A two-star general resigned his command in San Antonio last week after making a racially-charged comment during a lower-ranking officer's disciplinary hearing, the Air Force said Monday.

Maj. Gen. Michael Keltz, then commander of the 19th Air Force at Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph, told an accused officer that he appeared “drunker than 10,000 Indians” in a photo of him and another airman. The Air Force confirmed that Keltz made the remark, which initially was reported in a blog.

“I’ll confirm those were the words spoken,” said Col. Sean McKenna, chief spokesman for the Air Education and Training Command. “I just can’t confirm what happened in the Article 15 (disciplinary) hearing.”

The AETC, the parent organization of the 19th Air Force, said last week Keltz resigned after he “inadvertently made an unfortunate comment” during the hearing.


Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/local/article/Air-Force-general-lost-job-over-ethnic-slur-6241570.php



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Maj. Gen. Michael Keltz[/center]
Does anyone doubt what would have happened to the Native American people if the US had owned an Air Force during the time it wanted to destroy them in the early days?

As it was, they had to work trying to murder them any way possible, and we know how hard they worked to eliminate the people who were living in the land they wanted for themselves.

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Mountains of bison skulls were created when the US Army
destroyed seas of bison in order to take away the
food and shelter source from the Native Americans.



Bison skins that would not be used for tents.



Bones being loaded onto trains to be hauled off to Canada.[/center]
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XemaSab

(60,212 posts)
5. Do you live in Indian country?
Tue May 5, 2015, 07:03 AM
May 2015

It's like saying "I ate more watermelon than 10,000 blacks."

It's pretty offensive.

 

Sparhawk60

(359 posts)
6. O, Not Saying it Was Not Offensive
Tue May 5, 2015, 07:10 AM
May 2015

Not saying it wasn't offensive, just a bizarre way to frame an insult. It may be a common insult in "Indian country" as you put it, I have never heard it before.

/learn something new every day

 

msanthrope

(37,549 posts)
7. There's no denying it's offensive. But someone who is unfamiliar with First People's
Tue May 5, 2015, 07:12 AM
May 2015

culture and history may not appreciate just how offensive it is.

warrant46

(2,205 posts)
9. This is quite common up Nort
Tue May 5, 2015, 07:44 AM
May 2015

The 19th amendment would help tremendously in Indian country if we still had it, and on many a Res as there are no taverns no liquor stores. The problem is the alcoholics drive miles to get their bottles.

Among the young, the modern trail of tears has shifted from alcohol to crystal meth. It is killing a whole generation.

Whites, Up Nort, (sic) still use this slur. There are also many others I will refrain from posting.

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