Rick Santorum Slammed for Saying America Was Birthed From Nothing, There 'Isn't Much Native American Culture'
On 4/26/21 at 2:38 PM EDT
CNN's Rick Santorum is being heavily criticized for insisting that the United States was built on a blank slate, ignoring the history and culture of the country's Indigenous people.
Santorum, the network's senior political commentator and a former GOP congressman, made the remarks during the student organization Young America's Foundation's Standing Up for Faith & Freedom conference last week.
"We birthed a nation from nothing. I mean, there was nothing here," Santorum said. "I mean, yes we have Native Americans, but candidly there isn't much Native American culture in American culture."