The origin of the 'Pocahontas' insult is a newspaper's reporting. The same paper just called...

[DonViejo]

The origin of the ‘Pocahontas’ insult is a newspaper’s reporting. The same paper just called Trump’s attack ‘coarse.’

By Callum Borchers November 28 at 5:16 PM

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The Boston Herald was first to report in April 2012 that when Harvard Law School students complained about a lack of diversity among the faculty, in the mid-1990s, the school countered with a tally of professors that it claimed were racial minorities, including Warren.

The tabloid's cover featured a close-up photograph of Warren's face and an all-caps headline: “HARVARD FLAW.”

Though its reporting represents the origin of President Trump's pejorative nickname for Warren, “Pocahontas,” the Herald on Tuesday printed a cover that criticized the president for using the nickname during Monday's White House ceremony to honor World War II-era Navajo code talkers.

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On MSNBC Monday night, the Herald's chief Washington reporter, Kimberly Atkins, said, “There are very few things that I take personally in covering Washington as a reporter. But today it really stung. I mean, as a person of color who has been on the receiving end of racial slurs, to see the president go to that length ... really was bad, not just optically. It was bad for America. It's a sad day today.”

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[Cirque du So-What]

1. Shouldn't that be 'Boston Harold?'

Given their penchant for misspellings.