Chandler Langevin faced censure from Palm Bay council and calls to resign from series of posts condemned as ‘vile’
A city councilmember in Florida is facing backlash from national Indian American organizations, members of Congress, and local residents after posting a series of social media messages that insulted Indian people living in the US and called for them to be deported en masse.
Chandler Langevin, a Palm Bay council member elected last year, made derogatory comments about Indian people across several posts on the social media platform X over roughly three weeks this fall. He claimed that Indians come to America to “drain our pockets” before returning to India, “or worse … to stay”.
His remarks have sparked widespread anger. Since 29 September, residents along with regional and national Indian American groups have crowded Palm Bay city council meetings and demanded that he step down.
This is “red-dot Indian”/someone out of the subcontinent in southern Asia, not “peace pipe Indian”/Native American.
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Dots not feathers is how we usually distinguish them in my neck of the woods. I usually use natives though nowadays.
Yeah, I kinda wish that there were a shorter term than “Native American”, but I’d say that most modern usage has switched. You still have some institutional inertia, like the Bureau of Indian Affairs, but I suspect that if you’re starting something new in 2025, it’s probably “Native American”.