Senator Pocahontas is 1/512 Native American
Senator Elizabeth Warren released a DNA test which shows she has a Native American ancestor from 6 to 10 generations go.
The youngest this ancestor could be was someone born in the late 1790s.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/politics/2018/10…
Is it just me or would a Republican politician who claimed Native American ancestory and then waived a DNA test showing that someone born in 1790s may have been Native American as proof would finish their career?
How is Senator Pocahontas not the Native American equivalent of Rachael Dolezal?
She is actually 1/1024 Native American....they got their math wrong...
This is certainly not enough to prove she is Native American. Just ridiculous.
Just think... that means she is .001% Native American. 0.001%!!!!!
That's what I thought too. I thought 6th generation would equal 4x great grandparent not 3x. My guess is they count the first generation as Warren herself not her parents.
However I am not a genealogist so I do not know protocol.
Who gives a shit?
Harvard when they lauded Warren as a "woman of color" in order to fend off criticism of low diversity numbers on their faculty.
Right but like... who cares now? If she used an advantage to get herself into a good school that she fell within the bounds of being able to, why wouldn't she take it? Wouldn't Trump say "That makes me smart?"
So being 6% indigenous American and 4% sub-Saharan African is not sufficient to be recognized as a minority business owner, but Warren being 1/512 native somewhat completely vindicate her claims to be a minority. According to those criteria, practically every white person has at least this much non-white blood and can therefore associate as a minority??? Something is not right here...
https://nypost.com/2018/09/25/man-claims-to-be-a-minority-business-owne…
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It is ridiculous, but why are you saying 1/512 when the number is 1/32?
The Globe issued a correction that stated the range is actually 1/64-1/1024
https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/politics/2018/10/15/warren-addresses-n…
Liberal politics are making South Park reality. Amazing. Next is The Rock president and you have officially Idiocracy.
While I agree with that, the march towards the polarization of extremes started with the Tea Party around 2009. When one of your focal points of leadership is that you refuse to compromise with the members of the other party, there is going to be a response..
Are you fucking kidding me? George W. Bush was consistently called a Nazi.
I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of white people in America whose great grandparents were born here, aren't part native.
Rumor has it my dad's side has native Amercican blood in it, but nothing has shown up in recent ancestry tests.
If I were Elizabeth, I would not be touting this as a victory, as most tribes won't claim you if you're less than 1/16th.
^yep
The fact is that Warren proved that she has lied about her ancestry and benefited career wise from these lies.
I am almost dumbfounded that she is waiving this around as proof to her ancestry.
As someone else stated this is the biggest mistake/flop since Howard Dean in 2004.
I think it's more that she's willing to be open about it and is not trying to hide anything. She was challenged to take a DNA test, she did, and released it regardless of what the results showed. Also, she didn't really use the native american thing to benefit her career. https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2018/09/01/did-claiming-native-…
She is asking Trump to pay $1 MM and is still claiming she is Native American when no tribe would claim her as Native American and she is potentially less Native American than average white American.
The idea that she did not benefit from this is ludicrous. She was a teacher at lesser law schools (University of Houston and UT). After she claims Native American heritage she miraculously moves up multiple tiers of law schools (Penn and Harvard).
I know the liberals/SJWs will claim "multiple Harvard faculty members say race did not play a factor at all". I am not surprised that Harvard is claiming this. They are in the middle of a contentious law suit that they have discriminated against Asians for decades with blacks/Indians/Hispanics benefiting.
There racial grievance charade is about to come crashing down and this Pocahontas thing is just the beginning.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/13/us/harvard-affirmative-action-asian-…
Alt-Ctr-Left Ozymandia
Copying in some of our liberal friends who have been strangely silent on this.
How is this not extremely racist on Warren's part for falsely "appropriating" a different culture for decades and then doubling down on said appropriation?
Ah yes, sorry I missed my standing appointment to defend anything left of center once again, cross-country flight for me today notwithstanding. Here are my thoughts:
Look buysidehotshot , I criticized "my side" three separate times. Your turn.
Honestly haven't been paying that much attention, nor do I care much about it, but yes, it's pretty damn insensitive (not racist, I know you want to establish an equivalency with right wing dog whistle politics, but that isn't what the word means) and incredibly stupid and doubling down on it is baffling, infuriating, and demeaning to Native Americans, I assume (not being one).
For what it's worth, if she was calling Native Americans inferior, THAT would be racism. Falsely claiming to be one is... a word I don't know, but hopefully is imbued with as much scorn and disgust as possible.
Also it sort of depends on her. Without excusing her actions, if she was raised to believe she's Native American, and has always associated with that, then it's hard to fault her for continuing that. It seems more likely that someone once told her that, and she's been using it as a leg up in her career, which is obviously far more odious, but I don't know all the facts.
However, I can't see it impacting her electorally or politically. If I'm a liberal voter in her district, or in a national election, then I'm seeing this, versus the long list of actual racists or sexual abusers being actively chosen, perhaps because of those qualities, on the GOP side, and saying that this is small fries
right wingers very afraid of warren, the recent outburst makes it clear
She had the chance to be an interesting candidate. This is a total implosion on par with Howard Dean in 2004.
As in, no controversy, but right wing msm will repeat, uncritically, lies told about Warren, just like Dean.
I can't believe you're still on this site
Do I know u
Lol. She'll get mocked mercilessly if she decides to run, and she'll deserve every bit of it. She's done, and I cant believe she was actually dumb enough to go through with this.
Lol. You call her Pocahontas. Then what.
Then she does her stump about wages, consumer protection and health care.
You:... Pocahontas?
Sad, small minds.
Bloomberg is already endorsing her. https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-10-15/elizabeth-warren-s-d…
I have as much Native American blood as Pocahontas Warren and no one in my family ever dreamed of pretending to be a Native American. I did, however, cynically assert that I was gay on the SAT writing section.
For the record, I'm about 2 generations younger than Warren and 23andme said my Native American ancestor was in my line somewhere in the 18th century (likely).
Yeah and it was retarded.
It looks kind of dumb to release results that show such a small percentage of Native American ancestry. With that said, she knew what the results showed prior to releasing it to the media. I think she just wanted to put an end to Trump's criticism in anticipation of a run for POTUS in 2020. Saying or doing something dumb is hardly the standard for damaging a political career these days. There are people at all levels of government that have said far dumber things or have taken far worse actions those of Warren.
However, I think the Dems can do better than Warren in 2020. They would probably be better off with someone like Bloomberg who is highly intelligent and accomplished in business and in politics. He would likely be able to attract lots of independents/moderate republicans and he could fund his own campaign.
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