Where Is The Press In The Valley

Where Is The Green Bay and Appleton press tv and newspapers on this .
Dr. Steve Kegan makes racial slurs about the Onieda people! What are
the people in the 8 th district thinking by puting this guy on the ticket?
Even Nancy Nusbaum would of known better for this. I don't think the
Green Bay and valley media will cover this and if they do it would not be
the same if John Gard had done this!

Links and thanks for the information ,
From John McAdams http://mu-warrior.blogspot.com/ and Charlie Sykes

Steve Kagen Gaffe: “Injuns” versus “Warriors”

Via Sykes Writes, the the fact that Democratic congressional candidate
(running in Wisconsin’s 8th district) excused his being late to one event
by saying

“Our excuse, uh, in Oneida was, well we are on Injun time. They don’t
tell time by the clock. Our excuse here is I’m a doctor and we’re never
on time.”

Referring to American Indians as “Injuns,” of course, is the sort of thing
that has to be viewed a derogatory and offensive.
Especially when they are portrayed as being unable to be on time because
“they don’t tell time by the clock.”
But more interesting to us is the question: is there outrage in the
American Indian community at this slur?
Apparently not.
One of Sykes listeners asked a local TV station in northern Wisconsin
whether they were going to run a story on the gaffe, and they got this response.

From: “FOX11 News”Sent: Monday, October 23, 2006 9:39 AMSubject:
RE: Story IdeaThanks for writing.
We are aware of the comment referring to “injun time” it was not a reference
to any one person.
A spokesperson for the tribe said she believes he was trying to be funny.
She was not personally offended, and she is a member of the tribe.
We are considering a story.
Brian KerhinAssignment managerWLUK-TV Green
Bay920-490-1407bkerhin@wluk.com

So a tribal spokesperson “was not personally offended.
”But these same “tribal spokespeople” claimed to be sorely offended
at the fact that Marquette University was considering changing the
nickname of its athletic teams back to “Warriors.”
By any reasonable standard you honor a group when you name your
team after them.
By any reasonable standard, you demean a group when you say that
they can’t tell time.
But politically correctness has nothing to do with reasonable standards.
Being “offended” has nothing to do with objective offensiveness.
Rather, it’s a tool to be used by activists to bully people.
But they only want to bully certain kinds of people.
They are – and they know that they are – clients of white liberal elites.
They are the pets of the liberal elites, and if they play the game the way
the white liberals want, they get rewarded for doing so
(with lucrative gambling monopolies, for example).
So they don’t use the race card against their patrons.

I am a voter in the 8th district , waiting for coverage .

Update 4:50 p m -Milwaukee Journal- LINK for full artical

JFYI - I live a half mile from Menominee County.

Menominee Tribal Chairwoman Karen Washinowatok said the term
"Indian time" is commonly used among Native Americans, whose
concept of time traditionally was much different from European settlers.
"It's not at all derogatory... it's the time we were meant to be there," she said.
Oneida Tribal Chairman Gerald Danforth said "Indian time" was
"one of those cliches for why you might be late for an event."
Danforth said he thought it was humorous that Kagen had used the term.
"I had to laugh.
I didn't give it much more thought than that," Danforth said.

Washinowatok, however, said if Kagen had used the term "Injun,"
it would be derogatory.

Karen , I respect your political beliefs and enjoy the casino when I can, but,

"HE DID SAY IT" !

I know a lot of people from Menominee and they always say

"They are a Proud People"

I know and believe they are.

I do not have any respect for Mr. Kegan.