Posted on 09/10/2012 5:02:38 PM PDT by maggiesnotebook
Not only is Elizabeth Warren's claim of Native American blood in serious doubt (as in non-existence), so are her qualifications to teach at Harvard Law School (HLS).
“Elizabeth Warren: Undocumented Cherokee”
That would make a great billboard!
One might generously think that Warren’s coming from a lesser-ranked school isn’t necessarily an indictment of her ability.
That said, knowing Harvard’s propensity for hiring pedigreed academics, it’s very hard to think she was so exceptional that she was hired for anything except her claimed ethnic heritage. She is the worst sort of hypocritical scum—a liberal who supports affirmative action and then cynically lies to take advantage of it.
With her complication and eye color, I’ll give her credit for having the nerve to play the Affirmative Action game. If she had only stayed put at Harvard, the world at large wouldn’t have noticed she was an Affirmative Action fraud.
complexion...
I like complication better, lol. It fits her better.
By the time she was hired by Harvard, she was already a tenured professor at another Ivy League law school (UPenn). So, even though she did not graduate from a top law school, she did have something of an academic pedigree by the time HLS hired her.
I have a coworker who is a card-carrying member of The Eastern Band.
Blonde hair, blue eyes. She can document her ancestry, something Elizabeth Warren refuses to do, to the point of repeatedly snubbing and stonewalling Cherokee genealogists and even tribal authorities.
She’s a Wannabee, a fraud. There is no other answer.
Hardly anybody is of "pure" tribal heritage anymore, so given the right combination of genes you can have an honest-to-goodness 'blue-eyed Indian'.
Not that I believe one single word Fauxcahontas is saying . . . just that her complexion doesn't necessarily tell against her. Other things do, though.
We reputedly have a Cherokee ancestor on my dad's side, and the family was living in WNC at the time, but there is NO way that I would make any sort of claim until I had run down the relationship and verified it.
I would certainly not put it forward as a basis for an affirmative action claim without documenting it fully. That's dishonest.
High cheek bones = Lie-a-watha.
Affirmative Action by its very nature is an inducement to all kinds of fraud on the part of those seeking its special privileges. While the original architects of Affirmative Action saw it as a way to ensure “fairness,” it inevitably became riddled with all kinds of corruption and injustice. This Elizabeth Warren story is undoubtedly just one of many Affirmative Action scandals.
'Prof. Clare Dalton, who is married to Labor Secretary Robert B. Reich, sued Harvard in 1987 for discrimination when five male professors were granted tenure but she was not. Professor Dalton, who is now tenured at the Northeastern University School of Law, reached an out-of-court settlement with Harvard on Monday."
That's a bit reassuring. At least she had more of an academic pedigree than that famous Constitutional Law instructor at University of Chicago. Still, judging from how they mentioned her as a diversity hire, it's hard not to think her claim affected the decision to select her.
The Guion Miller Roll is the best place to start for genealogical purposes. It’s later than the Baker Roll and contains newer and often additional/different information. It also lists all applicants, not just those accepted, even listing reasons for denial. Being denied does not necessarily mean the indiviual(s) were not Cherokee descendants. It can mean that they had lived apart from the tribe going back generations, certainly prior to 1835.
I have seven relatives on it, but only one in my direct maternal line. My great grandmother.
Does this make her an undocumented non-immigrant? Surely she deserves some leg-up for bearing such an unwieldy burden.
I don't have any Cherokee or other American Indian ancestry, at least as far as I know. I did have some ancestors in Virginia in the 17th century so I could be descended from Pocahontas, I suppose. But I'm not sure that I would want to be related to John Randolph of Roanoke.
My dad and uncles said we have a “Genuine Cherokee Princess” in our background. A deep look at our genealogy shows the only person who could be Cherokee was NOT Cherokee or any Indian background.
I’ve got a legendary who-knows-how-many-greats great grandfather who would make Pocahontas a relative. Opechancanough, half brother of Chief Powhatan.
He reputedly raped Mary Sizemore in an attack during the Second Powhatan War, in 1622. Opechancanough himself was possibly the product of rape, by a priest from a Spanish fort further up the Chesapeake. He’s believed to have been “Don Luis” who was taken to Spain, something of a celebrity in certain circles. He was a “Werowance,” a chief, as was his half brother, what has historically been misconstrued as being similar to royalty as Europeans understood it.
That, you’d never prove. It is a persistent legend though. Unusually detailed and reasonably true to the few known written accounts.
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