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CNN Fired Rick Santorum for Racist, Pro-Colonization Comments

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Pressure has been mounting on the network to do something about its political commentator, who said there was “nothing” in America before white people showed up.

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CNN finally fired Rick Santorum, nearly a month after the former Pennsylvania Senator made racist, pro-colonization comments about Native Americans at an event for young conservatives.

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