Why is it people can't understand she's not CLAIMING to be Native American. She's just saying that somewhere back in her ancestry, there was someone who had Native American blood, which validates the story her mother told her. This shouldn't turn into identity politics.
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It's like me claiming to have some Turkish blood. I am Greek-American, and claim to be Greek, and my DNA test shows I'm of majority Greek descent, but there is some Turkish blood in there too; my great-grandmother on my mother's side was Turkish. It's not that hard.
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"Harvard Law School in the 1990s touted Warren, then a professor in Cambridge, as being "Native American." They singled her out, Warren later acknowledged, because she had listed herself as a minority in an Association of American Law Schools directory. "
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It is true, she just denies that she benefited from it.
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It is not. Read this piece on
@CNN and you'll see it's not true. They de-bunk it, in fact.https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/16/politics/elizabeth-warren-donald-trump-pocahontas/index.html …
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Direct your anger to the Pres. who mocked her for being proud of her heritage however small you think it is. Be angry at Trump for birtherism. Elizabeth Warren is your friend.
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Agreed. He's garbage for always trashing people. She should've ignored him, but she let him get to her and its brought more attention than needed, to this issue.
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I wish she had let it go but Trump was never going to let it go just like he did with Obama's birth certificate. Maybe it will go away in a few days.
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How about anger at the GOP for suppressing their voting in states like North Dakota
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Getting angry at a person who can help your cause seems counter productive to me.
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How does it help our cause to appropriate our identity? How does it help our cause to promote a false perception of our identity, minimizing Native identity to mere genetics and diminishing the importance of tribal sovereignty?
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She identified herself in a published book as “a Cherokee”. She listed herself as “Native American” in the AALS Directory. That is appropriating Cherokee Identity and Native identity. She may have changed her diction now, but don’t pretend she never appropriated our identity.
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Even though she has stopped calling herself Cherokee and Native American, she still claims to have “Native American heritage”. Heritage is something passed down, not something you find on a geneticist’s report.
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Here is her appropriation of Cherokee identity.pic.twitter.com/mcA1EDhKQB
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Here is her appropriation of Native identity. She changed her racial classification from white to Native American in 1989 while employed at the University of Pennsylvania.pic.twitter.com/ySUyu7vDs4
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Here she is listed as a “woman of color”, which was taken from the AALS Directory. In 2012 Alethea Harney, Warren’s campaign press secretary, confirmed that Warren self-identified as Native American in the AALS.pic.twitter.com/OT8eelC0Qc
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Ok. She has NEVER CLAIMED TO BE NATIVE AMERICAN! She HAS claimed to have Native American ancestry. Which she has. She claims to be a Senator, a former Harvard Professor, a white woman, and an Oklahoman. The rest is noise and distraction.
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Short version: at Harvard she claimed she was Native American. Not “Native American heritage” or “Native American ancestry,” or whatever spin she’s putting on it now. Just “Native American.”pic.twitter.com/E0HHhuVmGW
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Read your own quote, "CHMURA SAID..." not "Elizabeth Warren said..."
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So your position is that he made it up? Haven’t heard that one yet.
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No. I'm saying that a spokesperson for Harvard took something she wrote on an ancestry form and misspoke. Claiming to have ancestry from an ethnic group is wildly different from identifying as a member of that ethnic group.
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Tell me more about these “ancestry forms”
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