{"id":329512,"date":"2021-04-27T05:14:36","date_gmt":"2021-04-27T09:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=329512"},"modified":"2021-06-24T18:05:35","modified_gmt":"2021-06-24T22:05:35","slug":"rick-santorum-blasted-after-declaring-us-birthed-from-nothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/cs\/rick-santorum-blasted-after-declaring-us-birthed-from-nothing\/","title":{"rendered":"Rick Santorum blasted after declaring US \u2018birthed from nothing\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>RAEL&#8217;S COMMENT:<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><strong><span style=\"color: #008080\">A de facto acknowledgement that before colonization there was no US culture&#8230; Yes, the first settlers were &#8220;nothing&#8221;&#8230;<\/span><\/strong><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong><!--more--><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"article__summary summary \">\n<p>Rick Santorum, a CNN contributor and former senator, is being accused of racism for declaring that the US was built \u201cfrom nothing\u201d by European settlers and saying there isn\u2019t \u201cmuch Native American culture in American culture.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Video of Santorum speaking last week at the Standing Up For Faith &amp; Freedom conference, hosted by the Young America\u2019s Foundation organization, went viral on Monday as critics honed in on a specific part of the former senator\u2019s talk.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe birthed a nation from nothing. I mean, there was nothing here,\u201d Santorum said. \u201cI mean, yes we have Native Americans but candidly there isn&#8217;t much Native American culture in American culture.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Campaign_for_the_neologism_%22santorum%22\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Definition of the word Santorum<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/522187-rick-santorum-native-americans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/maitreyarael\/posts\/10157639562116216\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAEL&#8217;S COMMENT: A de facto acknowledgement that before colonization there was no US culture&#8230; Yes, the first settlers were &#8220;nothing&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":329676,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5628],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-329512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-raels-comments"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}