If he is the most racist human being living in this country, what difference does it make? That's what I wanna know.
You do know that if you don't agree with certain words you can use others the way they are intended to make your point.
I've thought it was a horrific Nazi bullshit clearly unconstitutional thing the entire time. It is idiotic. Sure, it would work. Just like searching pock marked tweaker looking white trash would be more likely to find meth.
But who was the real Pocahontas, and how did we come to be so fixated on her?
First of all, she wasn't really named Pocahontas."Pocahontas" was actually a nickname, meaning something along the lines of "mischievous one." Colonist William Strachey chronicled how 11-year-old Pocahontas would visit the settlers' fort at Jamestown and turn cartwheels with the English children, according to "Malinche, Pocahontas, and Sacagawea: Indian Women as Cultural Intermediaries and National Symbols."
There's a reason why we remember Pocahontas, and not other members of her tribe and family. Her alleged interactions with English colonist John Smith played a major role in shaping her legacy.
In December 1607, Wahunsenaca's brother Opechancanough captured Smith while he was exploring the Chickahominy River. Smith later claimed that Pocahontas disrupted his execution, throwing her body across his to protect him. In a 1616 letter to Queen Anne, he even wrote "she hazarded the beating out of her own brains to save mine."
Chief Roy Crazy Horse, the late leader of the Powhatan Renape Nation wrote the narrative around Pocahontas perpetuates the myth of the "good Indian." Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images
Numerous historians have pointed out the famous event likely did not happen as Smith described it — if it even happened at all. It wasn't the first time Smith had claimed to be saved by a young woman who intervened to save him from her male relatives. In "Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma," Camilla Townsend writes Smith claimed a young Muslim woman had protected him in a similar fashion while he was enslaved in Turkey. What's more, Smith left the dramatic incident out of most of his early writings. He didn't even mention it until 1624.
Chief Roy Crazy Horse, the late leader of the Powhatan Renape Nation, wrote the alleged incident helped propel Pocahontas to lasting fame: "Of all of Powhatan's children, only 'Pocahontas' is known, primarily because she became the hero of Euro-Americans as the 'good Indian,' one who saved the life of a white man," he wrote.
Just a few years after she allegedly saved Smith, English captain Samuel Argall lured Pocahontas onto his ship and took her hostage during the First Anglo-Powhaten War. Indian Country Today reports that the Mattaponi tribe's oral history asserts she was raped in captivity, and that her abduction separated her from her first husband and daughter.
Ultimately she was converted to Christianity and baptized as Rebecca. She married settler John Rolfe on April 5, 1614. He had lost his wife Sarah after some of the English colonists were shipwrecked on Bermuda. The couple had one child together, a son named Thomas.
The marriage established what became known as "the Peace of Pocahontas" — a lull in the fighting between the English and the Powhaten. The cash-strapped Virginia Company hoped to establish the couple as a "symbol of peaceful relations" in London, according to Encyclopedia Virginia. So in 1616, Pocahontas, her husband, and her young son traveled to England for a publicity tour, on a ship captained by none other than Argall.
She would never return to Virginia.
In March 1617, the family boarded the ship that would take them back to North America. Pocahontas and Thomas were struck with a sudden illness as it sailed down the Thames; he survived, she did not.
Pocahontas, who was likely only about 21 years old, was buried in Gravesend. Rolfe and his son ultimately returned to Virginia. Rolfe died in 1622, possibly in an attack orchestrated by his second wife's uncle Opechancanough, according to "The Cultural Roots of the 1622 Indian Attack." In 1644, Thomas Rolfe joined the conflict against his mother's people, becoming a lieutenant for the English military.
No, clearly it doesn't affect me. However, I saw Trump give a speech at a church in Detroit. Looking back he didn't mean a damn word of what he said but Hillary is still just as much of a liar. I wanted him to do what he said, invest in cities like that and bring them out of despair.
Do you even read what I write before I reply?
What the fuck are you talking about? Reminded by whom?
Was being sarcastic.
Reread these quotes. I thought the whole thing was idiotic but don't see what it changes.
Wasn't the point. Haven't said he's been a good President. At this point everything he does becomes traumatic for someone. The point it what is the constant bitching about him doing?
I'll ask again, what difference does it make? We know it is true? Is Mueller going to indict him for being a racist?