CBS Cares PSA: Wilma Mankiller

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November 04, 2018, 07:49 AM

jigray3

CBS Cares PSA: Wilma Mankiller

CBS has a short PSA for Native American Heritage Month encouraging us to "Celebrate Wilma Mankiller, first female chief of the Cherokee Nation".

I had never heard of her, but a glance at Wikipedia suggests she lead a substantial life as an activist and social worker and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. I am curious what we know of her beyond the cursory examination of fawning media reports. I am a little suspect of anything CBS suggests we should celebrate.

I have to say I suspect some on the left take particular glee in her last name.

November 04, 2018, 08:04 AM

tatortodd

I had to look her up as well. She apparently learned activism from her days in San Francisco and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from Bubba.

She certainly had a rough life with polycystic kidney disease, myasthenia gravis, lymphoma, breast cancer, two kidney transplants, and died from pancreatic cancer.

Ego is the anesthesia that deadens the pain of stupidity

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November 04, 2018, 08:19 AM

cne32507

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Originally posted by jigray3:
CBS has a short PSA for Native American Heritage Month encouraging us to "Celebrate Wilma Mankiller, first female chief of the Cherokee Nation".....

Blatant virtue signaling. Can't you just see the idea taking form in a CBS staff meeting? "Hey how about this one? Touches all the bases"!

November 04, 2018, 08:30 AM

ArtieS

I preferred her sister, Tiffany "Sparkles" Homewrecker.

"I vowed to myself to fight against evil more completely and more wholeheartedly than I ever did before. . . . That’s the only way to pay back part of that vast debt, to live up to and try to fulfill that tremendous obligation."

Alfred Hornik, Sunday, December 2, 1945 to his family, on his continuing duty to others for surviving WW II.

November 04, 2018, 11:49 AM

vthoky

Ah, Tiffany.... fond memories....

Politicians seem to have forgotten that they work for us, not the other way around.
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November 04, 2018, 08:04 PM

jigray3

While looking her up I discovered Mankiller is one of 46 "activists" to have won the PMOF since LBJ. 40 of them awarded by Democrats, vs. 6 to activists by Republicans.

And, as an aside, Obama handed them out like candy with a total of 123 PMOF's awarded. More than any other President. Shocking, I know, right. Trump hasn't gotten around to handing one out yet. He's been a little busy.