Fox host blames Native American struggles on “alcoholism” and “government dependency”
Jesse Watters: “They’re just going to try to send more slush funds to the reservations, and make them out to be victims, and then have them keep voting for Democrats”
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Citation From the October 13, 2021, edition of Fox News' Fox News Primetime
SEAN DUFFY (GUEST): I had a lot of Native American tribes in my old district in Wisconsin. Good people, love them, but if we are going to look at the past, they burned villages, raped women, seized children, took their -- took the people they defeated, took their lands, scalped people.
Jesse, I mean, it was a horrible time all across the globe, but they want to apply the woke standard that they have today on Christopher Columbus, but nobody else in the world. And I think what they want to do is get American kids, get the American people to actually hate our founding.
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RACHEL CAMPOS-DUFFY (GUEST): And the lie isn't just about our past. The real lie is what's -- with conditions for Native Americans right now. The conditions from Native Americans have everything to do with government dependency, cycles of poverty and alcoholism and family breakdowns --
DUFFY: Drug use.
CAMPOS-DUFFY: And these are things that the Democrats don't want to talk about. They want to say hey, listen, everything that is happening to you -- and we know, we actually have Native American family members and have seen this kind of stuff up close and very personal -- they want to say hey, what is happening to you and your Native American community, all the things you're experiencing has to do with white people and racism in the past. No, it has to do with government policies as well.
JESSE WATERS (HOST): Yeah, they're just going to try to send more slush funds to the reservations, and make them out to be victims, and then have them keep voting for Democrats.