By Hubie and Bertie
Rick Santorum has offended us so much, in so many ways, and over so many years, that we really didn't think he could top (or lower) himself. But never underestimate a Republican's ability to be 50 times worse than you ever thought possible.
Santorum decided to wax eloquent on the origin of the United States in a speech before the (ugh) Young America's Foundation. And he wasted no time letting his inner racist emerge.
"We birthed a nation from nothing. I mean, there was nothing here," he declared. "I mean, yes, we have Native Americans, but candidly, there isn’t much Native American culture in American culture. It was born of the people who came here pursuing religious liberty to practice their faith. To live as they ought to live."
WTF is he talking about? "Nothing here"? There were zillions of indigenous people, whom Europeans and their American descendants wiped out — or if they didn't wipe them out, they marched them as brutally as the Japanese marched American GIs on Bataan 80 years ago, then herded them onto reservations and destroyed their cultures. Santorum hasn't noticed, but it's the primary reason there's a movement today to take Andrew Jackson off the $20 bill. Hello, Rick, hello!
It's disturbing how blithely white folks tend to erase whole civilizations of people who don't look like them. Santorum is one of the hate-iest of the haters, and CNN, which employs him as a talking head, needs to fire his ass, now. We cats HISS.
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