CNN Commentator Rick Santorum Receives Backlash After Saying 'There Isn't Much Native American Culture In American Culture'/

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CNN commentator Rick Santorum receives backlash after saying 'there isn't much Native American culture in American culture'

 

Former Senator Rick Santorum (R-PA) speaks at the American Conservative Union (CPAC) 2016 annual conference in Maryland March 3, 2016. REUTERS/Gary Cameron

 

Asha C. Gilbert

Mon, April 26, 2021, 5:03 PM

 

 

CNN political commentator Rick Santorum is in hot water after making comments about Native American culture and the lack of it in America.

Last week, Santorum gave a speech about “birthing a nation from nothing” at the Standing Up For Faith & Freedom Conference for the Young America's Foundation, a conservative youth organization. A video clip from his address went viral.

“We came here and created a blank slate. We birthed a nation from nothing. I mean, there was nothing here. I mean, yes we have Native Americans but candidly there isn't much Native American culture in American culture," the former Pennsylvania senator said. 

“It was born of the people who came here pursuing religious liberty, to practice their faith, live as they ought to live, and have the freedom to do so.” 

In a statement to USA TODAY, former Sen. Santorum said, “I had no intention of minimizing or in any way devaluing Native American culture.”

Responses to the clip varied from diving deeper into why Native American culture is missing to calls for CNN to terminate him.

In the beginning of the video clip, Santorum said he didn’t know of any other country that was “settled by people who were coming to practice their faith.” He said the mostly European settlers came with Judeo-Christian principles and the teachings of Jesus Christ.  

“That’s what our founding documents are based on,” he said. "It's in our DNA."

The 2016 presidential candidate has made waves with his statements before.

Santorum made controversial comments to students in 2018, about their efforts to change gun laws after a shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.

"How about kids instead of looking to someone else to solve their problem, do something about maybe taking CPR classes or trying to deal with situations that when there is a violent shooter that you can actually respond to that," Santorum said as a guest on CNN's "State of the Union."

Calls to CNN and Santorum's organization, Patriot Voices, did not immediately respond to a request for comment from USA TODAY. 

 

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/cnn-commentator-rick-santorum-receives-175559466.html

 

GO RV, then BV

 

 

Edited April 27, 2021 by Shabibilicious