California congresswoman and current Senate candidate Loretta Sanchez has come under pretty intense scrutiny after making a “war cry” sound and gesture during an informal talk at the California Democratic Party Convention. Sanchez made the stereotypical gesture while explaining to a group of California Democrats that she expected a supporter to be Native American, rather than Indian American.
“So I’m going to his office, thinking that I’m gonna go meet with wuh-wuh-wuh-wuh, right?,” Sanchez said, making the war-cry action with a hand. “Cos he said ‘Indian American’. And I go in there and it was great.”
The gesture was captured on cell phone video.
“I was shocked and appalled that she’d make the disparaging comments about Native Americans that way,” Uduak-Joe Ntuke, the man who filmed the video, told Stockton-based KCRA.
Sanchez is currently running in a primary to replace Senator Barbara Boxer. Her primary opponent, California Attorney General Kamala Harris, told the station, “I don’t know what to say.”
