Updated
May 06, 2021
Racial Justice Groups Rip CNN For Giving Cover To Rick Santorum's Racism
"CNN intrinsically ties itself to a blatantly racist commentator" by going silent after his comments about Native Americans, say the groups.
National civil rights and racial justice organizations laid into CNN on Thursday for going silent in response to senior political commentator Rick Santorum’s racist and inaccurate comments about Native Americans.
Santorum, a former Republican senator and presidential candidate, sparked outrage last week after claiming that there was “nothing” in America before white colonizers arrived and that Native American people haven’t contributed much to American culture, anyway.