28 April 2017

Role model, not insult fodder


The professional ignoramus posing as POTUS considers "Pocahontas" an insult to U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren.

The historical Pocahontas, daughter of a powerful chief in Colonial America, wowed English society when she was presented as a "civilized savage" who converted to Christianity and took the name Rebecca. Her birth name was Matoaka; among her tribe, she was known as Amonute. She was taken hostage by the colonists and hauled to Europe as a prisoner.

Survival strategy: adapt and overcome.

There are legends about her, mostly lies told by the pink-skin, John Smith, to aggrandize himself by riding on her reputation.

Is it possible that Ignoramus knows no other Native American's name?

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