One of the most insidious racial slurs against non-white people are when they are told they’re not thought of as a minority. It totally shoots down their history and current struggle, letting people know that, to be a minority, you have to act and behave a certain way to please them.
In those regards, Rep. Markwayne Mullin is, as he claims, an Indigenous individual.
That being said, perhaps even sicker is being a sell-out that gives up your own people for a materialistic climb up the Oklahoman Republican ladder. This too is Mullin, as captured in a Tweet last week that no one asked for and, more importantly, no one needed.
Check it out:
In case you were unaware of it, Mullin is no way impacted by sports mascots and, thoroughly believes, that they do no harm to Indigenous individuals. As a matter of fact, he ties it all in to erasing history and other bits or Republican nonsense in the constant attempts to re-write history.