Posted on 05/25/2012 7:38:37 AM PDT by AmonAmarth
Blond, blue-eyed Elizabeth Warren, a Harvard professor is seeking to regain Ted Kennedys old Massachusetts Senate for the Democrats and who cites family lore that she is 1/32nd Cherokee, was inducted into Oklahomas Hall of Fame last year. Her biography on oklahomaheritage.com says she can track both sides of her family in Oklahoma long before statehood (1907) and she proudly tells everyone she encounters that she is an Okie to my toes. It does not mention any Cherokee great-great-great-grandmother. A DVD of the induction ceremony shows that neither Warren nor anyone else mentioned this.
The kerfuffle that has earned Warren such sobriquets as Spouting Bull and Fauxcahontas began with reports that Harvard Law School, in routine academic preening about diversity (in everything but thought), listed her as a minority faculty member, as did the University of Pennsylvania when she taught there. She said some in her family had high cheekbones like all of the Indians do. The New England Historic Genealogical Society said a document confirmed the family lore of Warrens Cherokee ancestry, but later backtracked. She has said she did not know Harvard was listing her as a minority in the 1990s, but Harvard was echoing her: From 1986 through 1995, starting before she came to Harvard, a directory published by the Association of American Law Schools listed her as a minority and says its listings are based on professors claiming minority status.
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a little late to the game George.......
There’s more than a few people working the university system by pretending to be Indians. Doesn’t work so well in politics, though. University libs don’t care enough to look these things up (and would be fired or expelled if they found a discrepancy and said something). Out on the public stage, it’s all fair game.
I grew up in Rhode Island (70’s). Half my friends claimed to be part Cherokee. Never claimed to be part Wampanog. It was always a great great grandmother.
She couldn’t get a job spinning the wheel at an Indian casino!
She couldn’t get a job spinning the wheel at an Indian casino!
George should really get on FR and read about these things weeks in advance.
maybe because the Boston Globe is finally waking up to this, George feels its safe
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routine academic preening about diversity (in everything but thought)Good line, even though obvious, and even though George is way late to this party.
She couldnt get a job spinning the wheel at an Indian casino!Good one.
You’d be surprised how many haven’t heard about it. Even in Ma.
Anywhere near Quahog, Rhode Island?
It's starting to look like George has to "study" other folks' opinions before he can "formulate" his "own" opinions.
T'was a time when he sounded sane and reasonable, but it has long pased.
” It’s starting to look like George has to “study” other folks’ opinions before he can “formulate” his “own” opinions.
T’was a time when he sounded sane and reasonable, but it has long pased. “
Will made a lot of money hiding in the basement.
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