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Rick Santorum
The former GOP senator, fired from his job as CNN commentator, has a vast history of controversial comments in one foul "Full Frontal with Samantha Bee" montage.
The businessman was a Republican megadonor and major backer of Rick Santorum.
The former GOP senator lost his contract with the network after claiming there was "nothing" in America before white colonizers arrived.
Advocates are holding a #RemoveRick tweetstorm as celebrity allies rip the network as "a willing participant in the erasure of Native peoples."
WHAT'S HAPPENING
WHAT'S HAPPENING
Does anybody care about sharing airtime with a guy who said "nothing" existed in America before white colonizers arrived?
"CNN intrinsically ties itself to a blatantly racist commentator" by going silent after his comments about Native Americans, say the groups.
"We were murdered, tricked and forced into giving up our homes. The devastation of this loss is still felt today."
The interior secretary said she could recommend some books to the former GOP senator who said "nothing" was in America before white colonizers.
In an exclusive interview with HuffPost, Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland, a member of the Laguna Pueblo tribe, reacted to Rick Santorum’s recent claim that “there isn’t much Native American culture" in America.
Don Lemon lost his cool after Chris Cuomo asked commentator Rick Santorum about recent racist comments.
