posted July 02, 2017 06:28 PM
Trump going after S.
Warren's 1/32 % heritage.What is a taste of Trumpelators record with NA? They have profitable casinos BTW, he does not. How do you wreck a cash cow like a casino? Ask Trump.
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Trump has not exactly been a model of good behavior when it comes to Native Americans. Last fall, he pledged to reverse an Obama administration decision to rename Mount McKinley in Alaska after its original native name Denali, calling it a “great insult” to former President William McKinley’s home state of Ohio. He has also vehemently defended the controversial name of the Washington Redskins NFL franchise. Despite widespread calls for the team to change their name (which is considered an offensive slur by a majority of Native Americans), Trump said, “I know Indians that are extremely proud of that name.”
And Trump’s rocky relationship with Native Americans extends far beyond his ongoing campaign for the White House. Trump has used controversial rhetoric in the past when competing with tribes in the casino business.
In 2000, Trump offended Mohawk Indians in upstate New York by financing a series of newspaper ads suggesting that a planned Catskills casino run by members of the tribe would bring drugs and violence into the community. “Are these the kind of neighbors we want?” one of the ads asked. “The St. Regis Mohawk record of criminal activity is well-documented.”
Fifteen years later, Trump insisted in a New York Times interview: “I wasn’t knocking the Mohawks; I was knocking their record.”
In 1993, Trump questioned the authenticity of some of his Native American business rivals during a congressional hearing in which he tried to convince lawmakers that casinos on Native American lands were both unconstitutional and hotbeds of organized crime.
“They don’t look like Indians to me,” he said of the Pequot Indians, who were running a very profitable casino in Connecticut at the time, “and they don’t look like Indians to Indians.” According to Mediaite, centuries of interracial relationships with white Americans have led to some members of the Pequot having more stereotypical Caucasian features.
“Organized crime is rampant on Indian reservations,” Trump added. “People know it; people talk about it. It’s going to blow. It’s just a matter of time. And when it blows, you’re going to have some very embarrassed faces sitting right where you are now.”
According to a Philadelphia Inquirer article at the time, Trump’s statements ”drew gasps and puzzled looks of disbelief from lawmakers and onlookers.” A witness from the FBI later rebutted Trump’s insinuations, arguing that “the gaming industry is a relatively closed industry,” and that “the vast majority are run as legitimate legal businesses.”
Lindaland
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