#CNN drops Rick Santorum after ‘racist’ comments about Native Americans

CNN ended its contract with Rick Santorum after the former Republican senator and two-time presidential candidate made “inaccurate” and “racist” remarks about Native Americans, according to a report.

A senior CNN executive told the Huffington Post Saturday that the network parted ways with Santorum, a political commentator, earlier this week, even as the former Pennsylvania senator tried to explain his comments that “there was nothing” in the US before the arrival of European colonizers on one of the network’s shows earlier this month.

Santorum went on “Cuomo Prime Time” to explain that he “misspoke” in a speech to a conservative youth group in April.

“We birthed a nation from nothing. I mean, there was nothing here,” Santorum told students during a speech on religious freedom last month to the Young America’s Foundation, a conservative youth group. “I mean, yes, we have Native Americans, but candidly, there isn’t much Native American culture in American culture.”

Native groups across the country had urged the network to fire Santorum.