South Dakota, come getcha girl. She has lost her damn mind.
Connie Uhre, a hotel owner in Rapid City, South Dakota, turned to Facebook Sunday to unleash a racist rant following a shooting at her hotel early that morning. As a result, she threatened to ban Native Americans from the hotel, stating she can’t tell “who is a bad Native or a good Native.” Now her son, Nick, a manager at the hotel, is trying to clean up Mama Karen’s s**t storm.
Uhre owns the Grand Gateway Hotel, which sits in a region that is home to the Lakota Nation. And as you might imagine, they’re not too thrilled about her colonizer tone.
In a statement sent to Daily Kos, Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe Chairman Harold C. Frazier says he wants an apology for his people.
“When those wagons first began their way to break treaties and settle on our territory, we were classified as lesser beings and genocide was justified as such. The words uttered by this person are a reminder to my people that this is still the case. ‘No Indians allowed,’” Frazier writes.
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