Senate candidate Loretta Sanchez appears to disparage American Indians

*Loretta Sanchez has since apologized, but the video of her  tapping her mouth and whooping in refence to Native Americans won’t be easy to overcome. VL

By Christopher Cadelago and David Siders, Sacramento Bee

Two days after entering the race for the U.S. Senate, Rep. Loretta Sanchez met with an Indian American group on Saturday and mimicked a racial stereotype of American Indians.

In a video shown to The Sacramento Bee and posted online shortly after, Sanchez, D-Santa Ana, describes a pending meeting she had with an East Indian.

“I am going to his office, thinking that I am going to meet with a,” she said, holding her hand in front of her mouth and making an echo sound. “Right? … because he said Indian American.

“And I go in there and it was great. It was just great because he said ‘I want to get my community involved.’ Involved. And that was the first time that we saw the Indian American community really come. …”

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