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[deezguy]

I was never a fan, but George W. Bush made an inspiring comment in giving a speech at the opening ceremony of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.

"A great nation does not hide its history. It faces its flaws, and corrects them."

[Libertine]

Originally Posted by Deezguy

I was never a fan, but George W. Bush made an inspiring comment in giving a speech at the opening ceremony of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.

"A great nation does not hide its history. It faces its flaws, and corrects them."

Trump Offends Native Americans With Racial Insults

Donald Trump’s long history of clashes with Native Americans


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.

During the June 18, 1993, interview with Imus, for example, the host opened the program by asking about plans by a “bunch of these drunken injuns” to open a casino in New Jersey.

“A lot of these reservations are being, in some people’s opinion, at least to a certain extent, run by organized crime and organized crime elements,” Trump responded. “There’s no protection. There’s no anything. And it’s become a joke.”

“I think if you’ve ever been up there, you would truly say that these are not Indians,” Trump responded. “One of them was telling me his name is Chief Running Water Sitting Bull, and I said, ‘That’s a long name.’ He said, ‘Well, just call me Ricky Sanders.’ ”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...125_story.html



How Donald Trump’s 1993 comments about ‘Indians’ previewed much of his 2016 campaign


'They don't look like Indians to me': Donald Trump on Native American casinos in 1993

REP. GEORGE MILLER (D-CALIF): Is this you, discussing Indian blood: "We're going to judge people by whether they have Indian blood whether they're qualified to run a casino or not?"

TRUMP: That probably is me, absolutely. Because I'll tell you what. If you look, if you look at some of the reservations that you've approved, that you, sir, in your great wisdom have approved, I will tell you right now -- they don't look like Indians to me. And they don't look like the Indians ... Now, maybe we say politically correct or not politically correct, they don't look like Indians to me, and they don't look like Indians to Indians.

And a lot of people are laughing at it. And you're telling me how tough it is and how rough it is to get approved. Well, you go up to Connecticut and you look. Now, they don't look like Indians to me, sir.

MILLER: Thank God that's not the test of whether or not people have rights in this country or not -- whether or not they pass your "look" test.

TRUMP: Depends whether or not. ... Yeah. Depends whether or not you're approving it, sir.

MILLER: No, no, it's not a question of whether or not I'm approving it. It's not a question of what I'm approving it. Mr. Trump, do you know, do you know in the history of this country where we've heard this discussion before? "They don't look Jewish to me?"

TRUMP: Oh, really.

MILLER: "They don't look Indian to me." "They don't look Italian to me."

TRUMP: Mm-hm.

MILLER: And that was the test for whether people could go into business, or not go into business. Whether they could get a bank loan. You're too black, you're not black enough.

TRUMP: I want to find out. ... Well, then why don't you -- you're approving for Indian. Why don't you approve it for everybody then, sir?

MILLER: But that's not a ...

TRUMP: If your case is non-discriminatory, why don't you approve for everybody? You're saying only Indians -- wait a minute, sir.

MILLER: You wouldn't stand -- you wouldn't stand for it in five minutes.

TRUMP: You're saying only Indians can have the reservations, only Indians can have the gaming. So why aren't you approving it for everybody? Why are you being discriminatory? Why is it that the Indians don't pay tax, but everybody else does? I do.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...2016-campaign/



Trump’s art of the deal with Native Americans: Racial insults were good for his business


http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-n...nap-story.html

[asiansam]

Originally Posted by Deezguy

I was never a fan, but George W. Bush made an inspiring comment in giving a speech at the opening ceremony of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.

"A great nation does not hide its history. It faces its flaws, and corrects them."

The much-maligned Bush was also the president who signed the law that allowed the project to move forward.

[deezguy]

Originally Posted by asiansam

The much-maligned Bush was also the president who signed the law that allowed the project to move forward.

Oh, he was properly maligned! But, he was not a racist like some.

[marsean]

Originally Posted by asiansam

The much-maligned Bush was also the president who signed the law that allowed the project to move forward.

All I can say is Wow. Very interesting. There is a great spirit alive in America for recognition, survival, respect and for ensuring the future. Strength in numbers and survive. Divide and conquer ensures failure. To cordon off different groups and causes amounts to that.