I've been avoiding comment on Warren's motives but I can imagine mentioning it to colleagues in the 70s and having it snowball as affirmative action got to be a thing and just...letting it happen. Nobody imagined this shit would be a life-or-death bitter struggle in 50 years.
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Warren got her law degree in 1976. In 1973, Cher had had a number 1 hit single with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half-Breed_(song) …. Having Indian blood was a cool little quirk, not much more. Yes, yes, oppression and whiteness, whiteness and oppression, whatever, that's how things stood at the time.
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Sometime in the late 70s, I erred while filling out a standardized test form: indicated myself as "native American" or whatever term was being used, but was white-bread lower-middle class. I was inundated by offers from institutions of higher learning.
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Yeah, I put 'other' on some form or other because I was irritated by the whole thing, same deal.
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