Mike Huckabee: Is Disney ‘Racist’ For Making a Billion Dollars from Pocahontas Franchise?

Mike Huckabee is more than just the former Governor of Arkansas. He is also the father of White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, a Fox News contributor, and a full-throated defender of President Donald Trump, regardless of what may come out of his mouth.

During an appearance on Fox & Friends this morning, he was asked to comment on the current dust-up surrounding Trump’s “Pocahontas” dig at Senator Elizabeth Warren during a White House ceremony honoring Native American Code Talkers who were heroes of World War II, which many saw as an unnecessary, inappropriate, and even racist dig at one of his political rivals.

Warren has claimed Native American ancestry which her detractors believe she used to gain advantageous status as a minority, particularly during her time at Harvard. There is a lot that is unsettled in this story: does Warren actually have indigenous people lineage? Is Trump racist for mocking her as “Pocahontas”? In other words, it is perfect fodder for opinion-based cable news programming as there is plenty of outrage to go around.

Enter Governor Huckabee, who provided his own interesting take on this controversy by raising the specter of the wildly profitable Disney movie franchise Pocahontas, asking “is that racist”? (Answer — no it is not. That movie celebrates the bravery of Pocahontas and the indigenous traditions before her people suffered genocide at the hands of many of Americans’s ancestors.)

And just in case Huckabee hadn’t delivered enough derp, he then questioned whether Warren was committing “cultural appropriation” by claiming Native American ancestry, apparently unaware that “cultural appropriation” is when someone fashions the cultural traditions of one that is not their own. Warren’s claims to Native American heritage hardly qualify. If Warren shows up to the Senate in a headdress, we can have that debate then.

Watch the clip above courtesy of Fox News.

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