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Offline mirraflake

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Hillary Clinton drew ire from Native Americans on Saturday over her use of the phrase “off the reservation” in a CNN interview.

Activists pointed to the saying’s dark origins in late-19th-century laws restricting Native Americans to reservation lands.

“When reservations were first established, going #OffTheReservation meant you were going to be hunted down and killed,” Ruth Hopkins tweeted.

The social-media firestorm forced Clinton’s campaign to apologize — also on Twitter.

 http://nypost.com/2016/05/01/hillarys-off-the-reservation-remark-angers-native-americans/
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Maybe Hitlery will have to add Pocahontas Warren to the ticket to assuage those hurt feelings. :silly:
Principles matter. Words matter.

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If she were a Republican the media would have her scalp for this.  She's almost as eloquent as Slow-Joe Biden.
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Oh for heaven's sake.  Is there any group that whines more than Native Americans at the least perceived slight?  What a petted bunch of babies.
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