NOTE: I had to actually enhance her cheekbones to get them to show up.
Posted on 05/18/2012 8:31:49 AM PDT by outpostinmass2
If I might make one suggestion before the updated version of the “Pow Wow Chow” cookbook is released: Next time, Liz, hold the mayo.
Even if you were 1/1000th Native American — which you’re not — and even if Cherokees did hold pow wows — which Cherokee genealogist Twila Barnes told the Herald yesterday they don’t — even then, your contribution to authentic teepee cuisine is “Crab With Tomato Mayonnaise Dressing?”
Why didn’t you throw in Tuna Casserole and Some Twinkies while you’re at it?
Like her recipe (“serve salad with remaining mayo on the side”), everything about Liz Warren screams “I’m white!”
In fact, I doubt you know anyone who is more “white” than Professor Pow Wow Chow. Her blond hair, her blue eyes, her pale, freckled skin, her wealth, her white-collar job at a “white-kid” Ivy League college, her liberal-suburbs-white-lady politics — Liz Warren is a walking, talking tribute to “Guilty, Affluent White People Who Listen To NPR” American culture.
Which is why it’s so offensively shocking to read report after report about Warren as a “woman of color.” That’s the exact phrase used 15 years ago in an in-depth article from the Fordham University Law Review about minority women in academia: “Harvard Law School hired its first woman of color, Elizabeth Warren, in 1995.”
And she’s got the cookbook to prove it!
Nobody cares that Liz Warren is not really 1/32nd or 1/64th Native American. What’s off-putting is that Warren is so clearly not a minority member in any meaningful sense of the word.
When this article and others were published describing Warren this way, she should have objected. She should have corrected the record on behalf of those Americans who have truly suffered because of their race. But instead she spent her career, as she put it, “checking the box.”
Here’s the reaction to Warren’s self-serving box-checking from “Polly’s Granddaughter,” a Cherokee Indian and genealogist in an open letter to Harvard Law’s “first woman of color”:
“You say you only ‘checked the box’ in an attempt to meet others like you, but that doesn’t make sense. If one is claiming to be Cherokee and wants to meet other Cherokees, they don’t ‘check a box’ on a job application or in a directory for their profession! They go to where Cherokees are.”
“You are from Oklahoma!” (emphasis in original)
Polly’s Granddaughter is absolutely right. As I’ve written previously, my mom was born in Oklahoma, and her great-grandmother, Nancy Hill, was a Cherokee from the Oklahoma territories. I also attended college in Tulsa, Okla. Meeting Indians in Oklahoma is as easy as knocking on a neighbor’s door and saying “Hi, wanna come over for some crab-and-mayonnaise salad?”
Being from Oklahoma also means there’s a good chance Warren also encountered anti-Indian prejudice first-hand. I only lived there a few years, and I did. I ran into some Okies who spoke about Native Americans the way the worst Southern whites talked about black Americans.
Those are the Native Americans the phrase “person of color” is intended for, not “Former member of ABBA” look-alike Liz Warren.
She knows this. She’s known it her whole life. Yet she’s chosen to play the role of suffering minority member, thereby making a mockery of the real suffering of others
Column is by Michael Graham.
Princess Running Weasel has been found out.
Anyone know of any recent polls re: this race between Warren and Scott Brown?
She probably parks in the reserved for handicaps spaces as well. A sense of privilege comes naturally to these narcissists. When they are not being “royal”, they are being “victims”. As my pappy says: “Characters, characters, never just plain people.....CCACNJPP”.
50/50 about 2 weeks ago but no polls since fake indian gate
most excellent point....
and of course we know that Warren is Cherokee the way that Obama is a Christian American
CHEROKEE CHECKBOX
Tune: Indian Reservation (The Lament of the Cherokee Reservation Indian)
She took some small Cherokee ration
Put this on her information
"Native A," although it's slight
She checked the box even though she's white
Took a while till it was known
That Liz is Anglo to the bone
And all the claims she made before
Aren't Lizzie Warren's anymore
Cherokee Checkbox, Cherokee Pride
So proud you hold your cheekbones high
She took the whole Indian fable
Used it for her PC label
Though she's blond with eyes of blue
She's still a redskin through and through
Cherokee Checkbox, Cherokee Pride
So proud you hold your cheekbones high
But maybe someday when she's beat
Cherokee Checkbox will retreat
Will retreat
Will retreat
Will retreat
Will retreat
She is another member of the infamous Faux Indian tribe like the phoney Colorado Faux Indian psuedo professor, Ward Churchill.
Another Harvard fraud.
The real issue is that so much of America seems to reserve jobs for racial set-asides.
If that happened in my line of business I would write myself up as some favored ‘nority in every job application - simply as a protest.
Lizzie Warren took an “x”
And filled some boxes with her checks
And when she came to “Cherokee”
She checked her cheekbones, said “That’s me!”
Wish I could agree but I can’t.
Jamie Dimon and the boys from JPMC officially un-cooked it the other day by putting Banker Stooooopidity front and center on the agenda again.
This issue was tailor made for Warren, she owns it.
Plus I suspect we will have a few more highly publicized banking fubars before the election.
Say hello to our First Fake White Indian Senator.
People should show up at her campaign appearences (if she’s even doing any now) and do the tomahawk chop and chant like Atlanta Braves fans do.
Hahaha, good one.
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205 of 208 people found the following review helpful raves from fellow faculty members May 15, 2012
By John Courtade
Format:Paperback
I've received nothing but rave reviews from my colleagues after whipping up treats from this cookbook in the faculty lounge kitchen. Admirers of Pow Wow Chow may also enjoy Bow Wow Chow, a Indonesian-influenced cookbook from a former professor now in politics.
It worked for Obama, why not Warren? /s
Usually someone who lies about small things like this will lie about many things. Right now she has people and news agencies looking into her past. Never a good thing for liars. Election is a long way off and there will be debates. It all depends if the minorities come out enmass to cast votes for Obama and then Warren as well. Coakley couldn’t get them to vote for her and it sunk her campaign.
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