http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/29/politics/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-off-the-reservation/index.html
In this age when anything can offend someone, did Hillary make a racist and perhaps sexist remark?
"I have experience with men off of the reservation"
The term clearly reflects the idea of Native Americans who from time to time revolted against their being placed on a reservation and went looking to attack Troops of the 7th Cavalry or burn a town. It's pretty clear where the phrase came from. The men point is harder to make, but men are a minority. And, of course, with the Sioux at the Little Bighorn it was mostly the men.
So you can't us such terms to name a football team Redskins or do the tomahawk chop but it's fine for a Presidential candidate to use "off the reservation."
In this age when anything can offend someone, did Hillary make a racist and perhaps sexist remark?
"I have experience with men off of the reservation"
The term clearly reflects the idea of Native Americans who from time to time revolted against their being placed on a reservation and went looking to attack Troops of the 7th Cavalry or burn a town. It's pretty clear where the phrase came from. The men point is harder to make, but men are a minority. And, of course, with the Sioux at the Little Bighorn it was mostly the men.
So you can't us such terms to name a football team Redskins or do the tomahawk chop but it's fine for a Presidential candidate to use "off the reservation."
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