Further Proof (As if Necessary) of Right-wing Racism

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9/22/2012, Nearby Eire Pub in Boston, at a rally for Scott Brown including former Mayor Ray Flynn. Some supporters of Elizabeth Warren were also gathered around with signs. Here you can see Brown's staffers making "war whoops" and "tomahawk chops", presumably in reference to Warren's Cherokee heritage. Identified in video making the chop are Brown's Constituent Service Counsel Jack Richard (camouflage shirt) and -- we believe -- Massachusetts GOP operative Brad Garrett, front and center with tan baseball cap and gray hoodie, leading the whoops and chops.

 

It wouldn't be the first time Bostonians imitated Native Americans...

 

That's true Coin but times have changed.

I'm not one to say ALL Republicans are like this because it's just not true.

I will say it was pretty damn stupid though.

 

Are we sure there wasn't a Washington Redskins game going on?

 

Agreed. They do however, lend a lot of credence to the stereotype don't they.

 

Stereotype? I probably see 50 people in there, but only 2 fit your definition of "racism". Somehow that doesn't quite live up to a "stereotype".

 

"Only two"?

Good thing you added "your definition" ...but still... awfully close to mimicking the op's point there, rlm.

 

I'm still going to say it was pretty damn stupid.

 

I know native Americans have protested the names of some teams in the past. I can see both sides of the argument, but lean towards the argument to change the names....if it's still considered offensive. That said, I don't consider it offensive, the opposite in fact (for most teams). I think of it as honoring their culture and the local area's history.

 

They look like idiotic frat boys with no clue that they are even being racist A-holes. My son's best friend comes from a very Republican down-state family. The grandparents are overt racists and their divorced daughter and former cheerleader is an alcoholic "look at me" I'm 17 still" racist blond bitch. Her kid makes some the most racist statements I've ever heard from a 16-year old and it is pretty obvious where he hears those statements.

The point here is that when racism is a matter of environment and you have a group like Republicans that have a rather long history of racist politics, you have a situation where the culture of racism is a family affair. If you believe that multi-generational welfare families exist and that welfare is passed from one generation to the next, why wouldn't you believe that racism isn't also passed from one generation to the next?

 

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Native Americans experienced near-genocide in the late 1800s. The lust for riches drove the killings. The Scott Brown's supporters in the video are indifferent about it. It's typical Republican behavior to not give a damn about what other people, other races, have gone through in their lives. If you want them to shut up though, just show them a full bar of gold. Their eyes would widen, their mouths would slacken, they may even experience the woody they have such difficulties obtaining without a pill. Yeah, Obama should just have a bar of gold next to him when he speaks. Whenever Republicans start to open their mouths, he could just set it out in front of them and they'd be in a trance.

 

Yep, that racist old Andrew Jackson tried to wipe Native Americans off the map. Pardon me, but what was his party affiliation? I'm not going to tell you, but it rhymes with Phlegmocrat.

 

Your concern for the near genocide experienced by the native population here in America during the 1800s is limited to party affiliation? You think Republicans were not in on the slaughter?

Native American experiences during that period were horrendous. Many tribes were wiped out completely. Even today, they suffer from that experience. The people at Pine Ridge still remember the slaughter at Wounded Knee, they remember everything, it's part of their culture to remember such things. Yet, they are some of the poorest in the nation, and for decades no one seemed to care. Thankfully, there is an effort to change their lives, and if I had Romney's fortune, a significant portion of my assets would be to help them regain the pride they had once held for their nation.

Not that you care.

 

America has the blood of it's natives on it's hands. It may be dried, and ignored, but it's still there. It'll always be there unless America stops ignoring it and begins to care. Again, thankfully, that has begun. In time, America may understand why it's important to care for it's people, and the blood stains can begin to fade, but not with Republicans blocking any effort to help the poor.

In some sense, the situation natives face may be similar to that of the Afghans once we pull out. We took what we wanted from the natives here and left them to die. The difference may be that the Afghans are highly likely to return to their pre invasion culture, and strike back at us, where the natives here eventually understood the hopelessness of doing so.