{"id":6589,"date":"2023-11-01T11:09:39","date_gmt":"2023-11-01T16:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/2023\/11\/01\/native-american-groups-blast-sen-john-cornyn-for-calling-lawmakers-wild-indians\/"},"modified":"2023-11-01T11:09:39","modified_gmt":"2023-11-01T16:09:39","slug":"native-american-groups-blast-sen-john-cornyn-for-calling-lawmakers-wild-indians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/2023\/11\/01\/native-american-groups-blast-sen-john-cornyn-for-calling-lawmakers-wild-indians\/","title":{"rendered":"Native American groups blast Sen. John Cornyn for calling lawmakers &#8216;wild Indians&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        Leave it to U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, who once blamed the COVID-19 pandemic on &#8220;Chinese culture&#8221; and denied the existence of systemic racism,\u00a0to invoke racially insensitive language to describe a Capitol Hill power struggle. That&#8217;s right, &#8220;Big Bad John&#8221; has drawn the ire of Native American groups for referring to his Republican colleagues in the House as a &#8220;bunch of wild Indians&#8221; because of their embarrassing inability to elect a new speaker, according to the Express-News. Cornyn, who made the comment last week on a call with reporters, earned a tongue lashing from the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) and Texas&#8217; Alabama-Coushatta Tribe, both of whom described his choice of words as &#8220;derogatory,&#8221; the daily reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leave it to U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, who once blamed the COVID-19 pandemic on &#8220;Chinese culture&#8221; and denied the existence of systemic racism,\u00a0to invoke racially insensitive language to describe a Capitol Hill power struggle. That&#8217;s right, &#8220;Big Bad John&#8221; has drawn the ire of Native American groups for referring to his Republican colleagues in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6589"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}