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The former US senator and CNN political commentator Rick Santorum has sparked outrage among Native Americans, and prompted calls for his dismissal, by telling a rightwing students’ conference that European colonists who came to America “birthed a nation from nothing”.
“There was nothing here. I mean, yes we have Native Americans but candidly there isn’t much Native American culture in American culture,” Santorum told the ultra-conservative Young America’s Foundation’s summit, entitled standing up for faith and freedom, and shared by the group to YouTube.
“We came here and created a blank slate, we birthed a nation from nothing,” he said.
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Getty Images Announces $85,000 in Grants for Photojournalists
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- Getty Images Inclusion Scholarships, founded in 2020 to help tackle wider industry issues of diversity and inclusion, returns to support emerging photojournalists
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