It should be pretty clear to just about everybody that Scott Brown has absolutely nothing to run on in the fight to keep his Senate seat in Massachusetts, because the only thing he and his team seem to have been able to come up with is that Elizabeth Warren once checked a box somewhere that said she had some Native American DNA in her. It’s become the central point (the only point, really) of his campaign. This was evidenced in their debate the other night, when Warren said she wanted to fight for the rights of ordinary citizens, and Snotty Scotty said, “she don’t look like no injun to me.”<\/p>\n
Then, at a Warren campaign event the other day, senior Brown staffers attended and taunted Warren with “tomahawk chops” and “war whoop chants.” Setting aside whether or not Warren’s grandmother had some Cherokee blood (which seems completely plausible what with her being from Oklahoma and all), as you might imagine, “actual” Native Americans didn’t think the antics of Brown and his staff were terribly amusing<\/a>. <\/p>\n The principal chief of the Cherokee Nation had asked the senator to apologize for what he called the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153downright racist\u00e2\u20ac\u009d gestures of Brown supporters at a campaign event Saturday in Dorchester, Mass. The Brown campaign responded in a statement, saying “Bill John Baker don’t look like no injun, neither.”<\/p>\n
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\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The conduct of these individuals goes far beyond what is appropriate and proper in political discourse,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d the chief, Bill John Baker<\/a>, said in a statement. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The use of stereotypical \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcwar whoop chants\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 and \u00e2\u20ac\u02dctomahawk chops\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 are offensive and downright racist. It is those types of actions that perpetuate negative stereotypes and continue to minimize and degrade all native peoples.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d
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