It takes the current Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation, Bill John Parker,
to show Sen Scott Brown (R-MA) that you can't tell heritage by just looking.
NY Times
By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE
September 26, 2012
Scott Brown Says He ‘Regrets’ His Staff’s ‘Unacceptable’ Behavior
Quote:
BOSTON — Senator Scott P. Brown’s campaign issued a statement
Wednesday evening saying he “regrets” what he called “unacceptable” behavior
by some staff members who participated in the tomahawk chops
and Indian war whoops at a campaign rally.<snip>
Quote:
The principal chief of the Cherokee Nation had asked the senator to apologize
for what he called the “downright racist” gestures of Brown supporters
at a campaign event Saturday in Dorchester, Mass.
|
Mr. Brown said Tuesday that he did not condone such behavior but added
that Ms. Warren was the one who needed to apologize for claiming to be,
as he phrased it at last week’s debate, “a person of color” which, he said, “clearly she is not.”
As he put it on Tuesday when he said he would not apologize:
“The apologies that need to be made and the offensiveness here is
the fact that Professor Warren took advantage of a claim, to be somebody
– a Native American — and using that for an advantage, a tactical advantage.”<snip>
Mr. Brown is also airing a television ad on the matter and began
his first debate by saying that Ms. Warren’s claims regarding her
ancestry showed she was of questionable character.<snip>
|
Or was this another Republican attempt at "plausible deniability" ?