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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRNC Official: N.M. Governor ‘Dishonored’ Gen. Custer By Meeting With American Indians
A progressive group called on Republican National Committee leader Pat Rogers to step down on Friday after emails showed him telling New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinezs staff that meeting with a group of American Indians dishonored Gen. George Armstrong Custer, the 19th century commander who killed scores of American Indians.
The state is going to hell, Rogers, who is a member of the GOP executive committee and is currently in Tampa for the RNC convention, wrote in a June 8 email released by Progress Now New Mexico. Former Republican gubernatorial candidate Col. Allen Weh would not have dishonored Col Custer in this manner, he wrote.
Martinez is required by law to attend the annual state-tribal leaders summit, according to Progress Now New Mexico, which called for him to step down.
Such a blatantly racist statement against our native people is offensive from anyone, but to come from a national GOP leader and lobbyist for some of our countrys largest corporations is indefensible, Progress Now New Mexicos executive director Pat Davis said in a statement.
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There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
George Armstrong Custer
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God I hate Republicans, I had native american relatives in New Mexico,
my aunt was married to a Navajo.
nebenaube
(3,496 posts)Custer died for this man's forefather's sins.
ibegurpard
(16,685 posts)it's not like Custer is a national hero or something...he is just a well-known historical figure. Since when has he been held as an object of reverence?
Spider Jerusalem
(21,786 posts)Custer was viewed as a heroic figure until there was a cultural shift in academic history that went from a narrative of heroic westward expansion of "civilisation" to one of systematic oppression and destruction of native culture.
Brother Buzz
(36,466 posts)She was very successful
panader0
(25,816 posts)niyad
(113,580 posts)repuke just someone who hates native americans in general (pssssst, moran, they were here first)
exboyfil
(17,865 posts)been like was if the Sioux and Cheyenne gone into town and started killing the wives and children of the cavalrymen. Custer got what he deserved in a stand up fight with individuals trying to protect themselves. It was his troops that first attacked a camp with women and children in it (not to mention the breaking of all the treaties supposedly in place to protect the Sioux and Cheyenne land). It was simply blood for Black Hills gold.
Someone in 2012 actually said this?