Senator tells Native American candidate to go back to where she came from, storms out of public event
Senator tells Native American candidate to go back to where she came from, storms out of public event
A bipartisan forum in a small Latah County community took a turn when Republican Senate incumbent Dan Foreman stormed out of the event, following a racist outburst directed at a Native American candidate.
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And best of all, it was because she answered the question of, "Did she think discrimination was an issue in the state? "
And the dude said it to a native American whose tribe has been in the region for millennia. He's not even a native to the state.
Yes! The Cooper's Ferry village site in Nez Pearce territory contains the oldest verified evidence of habitation in North America, with dates to 16.5k years ago. There is very likely earlier habitation sites, but they will be difficult to find, and many would have been on the coastline that is now miles out to sea due to sea level rise after the glacial melt.
This buffoon couldn't have chosen a worse group to tell to go back to where they came from... They've been there since the glaciers. What a dense, ignorant and racist waste of space... too bad the constituents think enough like him that they vote this hate into office.