Donald Trump's long history of clashes with Native Americans

[demmiblue]

Source: Washington Post

Donald Trump claimed that Indian reservations had fallen under mob control. He secretly paid for more than $1 million in ads that portrayed members of a tribe in Upstate New York as cocaine traffickers and career criminals. And he suggested in testimony and in media appearances that dark-skinned Native Americans in Connecticut were faking their ancestry.

“I think I might have more Indian blood than a lot of the so-called Indians that are trying to open up the reservations,” Trump said during a 1993 radio interview with shock jock Don Imus.

Trump’s harsh rhetoric on Native Americans was part of his aggressive war on the expanding Native American casino industry during the 1990s, which posed a threat to his gambling empire. The racially tinged remarks and broad-brush characterizations that Trump employed against Indian tribes for over a decade provided an early glimpse of the kind of incendiary language that he would use about racial and ethnic groups in the 2016 presidential campaign.

The GOP nominee has portrayed Mexican immigrants as rapists and murderers, accused a Latino federal judge of bias because of his ancestry, and suggested that most American Muslims are harboring terrorists. As for Native Americans, the Republican nominee has repeatedly mocked Massachusetts Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s claim of Cherokee ancestry by referring to her as “Pocahontas” while some of his rally crowds have erupted in war whoops.

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[Angry Dragon]

1. So in 1993 the american hitler claimed Native American blood

[2naSalit]

2. K&R

[murielm99]

3. He has more Indian blood?

Is that hyperbole or does he mean it?

Should we start calling him Chief Sitting Bull(shit)?

[MosheFeingold]

4. Sounds like hyperbole

I remember a number of very questionable people pretending to be Native American in efforts to circumvent gaming laws. It started a process of much better tracking and keeping records of those eligible for such things, including Affirmative Action and contract set-asides.

I really don't have a problem calling out fakes. They take advantage of programs meant for actual disadvantaged people.

No different than welfare cheats or other thieves.

[Archae]

5. Years back here in Wisconsin...

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A couple tribes wanted to be able to get walleye fish, from the lakes and rivers.

Racists went bananas.

They demanded the Indians use only what their ancestors used.
The Indians pointed out that the numbers of walleye taken by them, was far less than sport fishermen took.
And they demanded in turn the sport fishers use only what THEIR ancestors used, no motorboats, fish locators and such.

The racism finally died out.

Trump obviously was jealous of the Indian tribes, they actually could run casinos without going bankrupt and cheating contractors.

[murielm99]

6. I remember those idiots.

A few of them actually showed up at a Senator Simon town hall here in Northern Illinois. It had nothing to do with what our town hall was about.