Reza AslanVerified account

some very limited actors in native american communities care about the tests and their input is very interesting and i've learned a lot pretty much everyone else is weaponizing it in bad faith though and undercutting the first group

I think more people care about it than you think, or would even admit it for that matter. But if she was on the ballot come election day there are quite a few people that would let that issue be the tipping point. I wish it wasn't that way.

The DNA test thing was one indication that she doesn’t always have great political instincts.

They truly care about Warrren’s DNA as much as they truly care about HRC’s emails.

Thats for sure +

The only folks I pay attention to regarding the DNA tests are Native Americans--and most of the ones I follow spoke out with nuance & insight and have moved past it a while ago.

She’s not electable for a lot of reasons and that is unfortunate because she is one of the best candidates, I will not vote for her in primary, of course I will if she is the candidate

Native here..many of us don't give a you know what about the DNA test. In fact, many nations embrace those who appreciate and respect their way of life, including non-native

@jessbidgood just take a moment to watch her in hearings with Wells Fargo, he says “You should be fired” to his big CEO face. @ewarren has got the figurative “balls” to destroy @realDonaldTrump

This is like when Republicans only care about the deficit when we have a Democrat president.

Some Indigenous folks do, and they have every right. It’s cynical for her opponents to invoke it this way, and I’d vote for her if I were American, but do not dismiss the real problem with perpetuating the myth of blood quanta.

Trump literally pays off mistresses while his wife is pregnant. And yet we have to deal with people pretending that @ewarren mixing up her ancestry killed her credibility and thus electibility?

Plenty of people still care but you've probably blocked them all by now.

I would be fine with either of them, but I hope they work it out amongst one another (one takes the lead role and other VP, or one bows out, whatever) -- because both of them up there basically splits the vote enough for Biden to get the nomination and lose to Trump.

Beautiful hypocrisy

Nobody gives a sh*t about the tax returns and it's time to stop pretending we do.

Grasping at straws, they are.

It’s more about her constantly lying and using a lie to advance her academic career and taking a spot from a deserving minority. So it does matter unless you find with a white woman lying and fucking minority’s out of an opportunity?

Oh Sanders campaign feels really threatened by Warren