as he was trying to become a full term senator (he was elected for 2.5 year term after Sen. Ed Kennedy passed away). He lost some votes after he basically said Elizabeth didn’t “look” Native American, ergo she is NOT Native American. Many of us on DK went off on that, myself included.
It happens. Family oral histories can be wrong, they can be embellished, things can be forgotten (we were told that my maternal father’s family changed their name at Clinton Island, but that wasn’t true either).
- 2016 Donald
Drumpf, Trump, Trumpenstein is running for President. And running on a platform of nativism (but only white, right wing, christian ones), xenophobia, bigotry, racism, misogyny, etc , he is the front runner on the Republican side for POTUS.
Reenter little Scott Brown, who probably hasn’t gotten over the butt hurt from two Democratic dominatrices, women, he’s endorsed Trump. Given all of Scoot’s history it’s not surprising that he would be turned on by a campaign such as Trump’s (where there doesn’t seem to be a safe word). He’s even let his new master, BFF, use his “Elizabeth’s not an Indian” attack line.
In a bid to alienate more not whites, Trump responded to Warren’s denunciations of him
More heavyweights are jumping in to stomp Trump, including Elizabeth Warren. Asked about her jabs, he pounced: “I think it’s wonderful because the Indians can now partake in the future of the country. She’s got about as much Indian blood as I have. Her whole life was based on a fraud. She got into Harvard and all that because she said she was a minority.” — NYTimes
which is a direct reference to his boy toy’s supporter’s campaign against her (the one he LOST btw).
Senator NOT Scott, never claimed Native American ancestry to get into either Harvard or the University of Pennsylvania, nor for any preferential treatment. She ticked the box based on oral family history which could be right or it could be as wrong as what was told my two oldest children. And that box tick was used by the universities as evidence that they were diverse
Warren said she didn't know Harvard had used her heritage as proof of diversity until reading about the issue in the news, according to a Herald report. She also denied that she ever tried to gain a professional advantage through her lineage. — Snopes
She won’t know for sure unless she takes a DNA test. (Which if she does she’s under no obligation to tell us the results) She is taking it on faith as part of her family’s oral history, just as my ex-husband’s family did and just as the “Indian Princess” does in the Daily Show’s originial airing of the segment (the only female on the pro panel). The difference is Warren’s claim did no harm, dumbshit nation defending the Redskins does. But further
But Penn's 2005 Minority Equity Report identified her as the recipient of a 1994 faculty award, listing her name in bold to signify that she was a minority. The Herald has twice quoted Charles Fried, the head of the Harvard appointing committee that recommended Warren for her position in 1995, saying that the Democratic candidate's heritage didn't come up during the course of her hiring. "It simply played no role in the appointments process," he said. "It was not mentioned and I didn't mention it to the faculty."
The Herald later quoted Fried, a former U.S. Solicitor General under President Ronald Reagan, saying, "I can state categorically that the subject of her Native American ancestry never once was mentioned." — Snopes
It’s not surprising that the Trumpenstein would work to alienate another group. Brown tried to use it as a wedge issue concern trolling, whitesplaining, that Native Americans should be upset that they’ve been so misused (go ahead white boy, ‘splain it to them). Trump may give this life again in his evil laboratory campaign.
If you think you’ve truly got a gotcha to shut down Warren I will remind you of Shaun King. It may be red meat for your horde but it will have no truck outside.
Elizabeth Warren is doing what Elizabeth Warren does (kicking ass and taking names). She’s calling it like she sees it. And she fights. . .
But her previous criticisms of Trump took a much more serious tone. In a Facebook post last Monday, Warren said Trump is “a bigger, uglier threat every day that goes by.”
Warren strongly denounced Trump as a demagogue, drawing historical parallels to other instances in which citizens stayed “quiet for too long, hoping for the best but watching silently as the threat metastasizes.”
“It’s time for decent people everywhere – Republican, Democrat, Independent – to say No More Donald,” she wrote. “There’s no virtue in silence.” — Boston.com
Oh and not for nothing there have been 6 people of Native American ancestry in the Senate and 14 in the House of Representatives. And one, by the name of Charles Curtis, as VP of the US (1929-1933). “They’ve” been participating for a long time.
Dick.