Scott Brown's campaign of race

POSTED BY: Niki2
UPDATED: Friday, September 28, 2012 23:22
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NIKI2

Thursday, September 27, 2012 7:21 PM

This one blows me away, and like some, I don't see why it's not getting more attention:

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During the first debate between Brown and Warren, Brown told the audience that he could tell by looking at Warren, who was born in Oklahoma, that she does not have any Native American lineage. He later denied having said that. What he said was: "I think character is important. I think what you’re referring to is the fact that Professor Warren claimed that she was a Native American, a person of color, and as you can see, she’s not.

...she applied to Penn and Harvard and she checked the box claiming she was a Native American. And, you know, clearly she’s not. When you are a United States Senator you have to pass a test, and one of character and honesty and truthfulness. And I believe, and others believe, that she has failed that test." http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/09/20/scott_brown_rips_war
ren_for_native_american_claim_at_senate_debate.html]
In a later exchange with a reporter, Brown denied his remarks were what they were:

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REPORTER: … the debate that, “As you can see,” she’s not Indian. Can you tell by looking at someone what their ethnicity is? What’s your feeling on that?

BROWN: [Avoids the question, talks about Warren's character, integrity, etc....]

REPORTER: But you’re suggesting you can tell by somebody’s—

BROWN: I never made that suggestion at all. http://www.towleroad.com/2012/09/scott-brown.html]
Anyway, that's how it began, Scott Brown showing his true nature by claiming Elizabeth Warren couldn't possibly have any Native American blood in her, because she doesn't "look" Native American.

In actual fact,

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Genealogist at the New England Historic Genealogical Society Chris Child set out to hunt down Warren’s ancestry last Thursday. In less than a week, he discovered documents citing an 1894 marriage record that lists Warren’s great-great-great grandmother, O. C. Sarah Smith as Cherokee, meaning that Warren is 1/32nd Native American. http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/05/elizabeth-warrens-cheroke
e-heritage-raises-questions/] Warren’s great-great-great grandmother, O.C. Sarah Smith, was referenced as Cherokee Indian on her son William Crawford’s 1894 marriage license application, a 2006 family newsletter showed ( http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/05/mass-senate-race-warren-s
tirs-cherokee-ancestry-debate/]). She has said of her heritage:

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“Growing up, my mother and my grandparents and my aunts and uncles often talked about our family’s Native American heritage. As a kid, I never thought to ask them for documentation- what kid would?- but that doesn’t change the fact that it is a part of who I am and part of my family heritage”Growing up, my mother and my grandparents and my aunts and uncles often talked about our family’s Native American heritage

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Whether ancestry that far back classifies her as Native American is up to debate, but Scott Brown's and his staffers' actions aren't.

Some of his actual STAFFERS were filmed making "war whoops" and "tomahawk chops". These are not just "some folk", or even Brown supporters, they are his STAFF: Identified in video making the chop are Brown's Constituent Service Counsel Jack Richard (camoflage shirt) and Massachusetts GOP operative Brad Garrett, front and center with tan baseball cap and gray hoodie, gleefully leading the whoops and chops. Also present was Brown's Deputy Chief of Staff Greg Casey.

Bear in mind these are people directly connected to Brown's campaign, his senior staff, and their salaries are taxpayer financed. How could they do what they did without Brown knowing about it or condoning it? If they could, what does that say about his control of his campaign?

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After the incident became public, the Scott Brown campaign said in a

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