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George F. Will: Diversity politics trips up campaign to reclaim Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat
National Post ^ | May 25th 2012 | George F. Will

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 Kennedy’s old Massachusetts Senate for the Democrats and who cites “family lore” that she is 1/32nd Cherokee, was inducted into Oklahoma’s 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 Warren’s 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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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: fakeindian; lizwarren; warren

1 posted on 05/25/2012 7:38:44 AM PDT by AmonAmarth
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To: AmonAmarth

a little late to the game George.......


2 posted on 05/25/2012 7:42:57 AM PDT by GotMojo
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To: AmonAmarth

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.


3 posted on 05/25/2012 7:44:23 AM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (Liberalism is a social disease.)
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To: AmonAmarth

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.


4 posted on 05/25/2012 7:46:25 AM PDT by barbarianbabs
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To: AmonAmarth

She couldn’t get a job spinning the wheel at an Indian casino!


5 posted on 05/25/2012 7:48:58 AM PDT by Dr. Ursus
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To: AmonAmarth

She couldn’t get a job spinning the wheel at an Indian casino!


6 posted on 05/25/2012 7:49:19 AM PDT by Dr. Ursus
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To: GotMojo

George should really get on FR and read about these things weeks in advance.


7 posted on 05/25/2012 7:49:39 AM PDT by samadams2000 (Someone important make......The Call!)
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To: samadams2000

maybe because the Boston Globe is finally waking up to this, George feels its safe


8 posted on 05/25/2012 7:53:51 AM PDT by GotMojo
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To: AmonAmarth
Is it now the new fad to omit posting a link so that now all it shows is:

"(Excerpt) Read more at ..."

9 posted on 05/25/2012 7:56:55 AM PDT by capt. norm (Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves for they shall never run out of material. c)
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To: AmonAmarth
routine academic preening about diversity (in everything but thought)
Good line, even though obvious, and even though George is way late to this party.
10 posted on 05/25/2012 8:23:39 AM PDT by samtheman
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To: Dr. Ursus
She couldn’t get a job spinning the wheel at an Indian casino!
Good one.
11 posted on 05/25/2012 8:27:49 AM PDT by samtheman
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To: GotMojo

You’d be surprised how many haven’t heard about it. Even in Ma.


12 posted on 05/25/2012 8:29:24 AM PDT by DManA
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To: barbarianbabs
I grew up in Rhode Island

Anywhere near Quahog, Rhode Island?

13 posted on 05/25/2012 8:59:04 AM PDT by Graybeard58 (Obama versus Romney? Cyanide versus arsenic.)
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To: AmonAmarth
President BARACK OBAMA was invited to address a major gathering of the American Indian Nation two weeks ago in upstate New York .         

            He spoke for almost an hour about his plans for increasing every Native American's present standard of living. He referred to his time as a U.S.      Senator and how he had voted for every Native American issue that came to the floor of the Senate.           

  Although President Obama was vague about the details of his plans, he seemed most enthusiastic and spoke eloquently about his ideas for helping his "red sisters and brothers."                                                                                                                          

The proud President Obama accepted the plaque and then departed in his motorcade to a fundraiser, waving to the crowds.        

  A news reporter later asked the group of chiefs how they came to select the new name they had given to the President.               

 They explained that Walking Eagle is the name given to a bird so full of shit it can no longer fly.                                                                                       
14 posted on 05/25/2012 9:06:15 AM PDT by jrg
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To: GotMojo
a little late to the game George.......

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.

15 posted on 05/25/2012 9:16:53 AM PDT by trebb ("If a man will not work, he should not eat" From 2 Thes 3)
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To: AmonAmarth
It was not and never was Ted's seat! It was the people of Massachusetts seat.
16 posted on 05/25/2012 9:22:01 AM PDT by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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To: trebb

” 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.


17 posted on 05/25/2012 10:09:29 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (God, family, country, mom, apple pie, the girl next door and a Ford F250 to pull my boat.)
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