Posted on 09/04/2012 9:55:36 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
As an obligatory follow-up to my post earlier today, it appears US Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren is steadfastly refusing to confirm or deny allegations she purposefully lied about her ethnic heritage in order to bolster her academic career. The Boston Herald reports:
Elizabeth Warren, scrambling to shift focus from her ongoing Cherokee scandal, dismissed demands from Native Americans who want her to explain her heritage claims in her first appearance at the Democratic National Convention this morning.
“I’ve answered those questions, what I’m here to talk about (is) what’s happening to America’s working class families,” said Warren, who had just completed brief appearances on the “Today Show” before the prime-time speech tomorrow.
Questions surrounding Warren’s American Indian heritage re-emerged after many members of a council of Democratic Native Americans — including the great-grandson of Geronimo — were outraged that Warren listed herself as a minority in a law school directory without any proof.
Warren ignored a follow-up question about whether she was refusing to meet with the group, who are loyal Democrats and come from across the country. She has continued to claim that her Cherokee roots are a part of her life due to stories her family told her, but she’s declined to speak further about the issue.
Are we really surprised? I mean, this is the same Democratic Senate candidate who told reporters last May the reason she listed herself as an ethnic minority (for nine years) in a professional law journal was to, ahem, meet “people who are like I am.” Wow. And setting aside the fact she still cannot produce one single shred of evidence corroborating her dubious (and discredited claim), Professor Warren also stopped self-identifying as a Native American in 1995 -- that is, the very same year she achieved tenure at one of the most prestigious law schools in the nation. Curious, isn’t it? In other words, there’s a reason why Elizabeth Warren is constantly avoiding reporters by dismissively declaring she’s “already answered those [kinds of] questions.” She hasn’t. Just ask any of the disgruntled Democrats at the DNC (who also happen to be Native Americans) still waiting for answers.
My great great grandmother was Cherokee Indian. I can prove it and there is also absolutely no doubt about it just by looking at her photos. All she needed was set of head feathers. lol!
SOME people think I have the attitude as in ‘on the warpath’ a lot! I don’t know what they are talking about. /s
lol...
I got the hair, eyes and yes, the cheekbones, lol, but am pretty pale and lack the legendary temper. I’ve been mistaken for a Scot before. I have cousins who are the opposite, and I have cousins who are blonde haired and blue eyed. My father was. Genetics fall out differently even with siblings. Tremendous amount of variation, sometimes skipping generations. Of all my relatives, I resemble my maternal grandfather most.
The glycerin caused him to cry. ha!
I wonder if the woman who talked about maize, “what you people call corn”, was really an Indian.
[[I wonder if the woman who talked about maize, “what you people call corn”, was really an Indian.]]
That waS elizabeth warren- ior so she’ll claim I bet
Not so easy, ask Jason Stone, son ow famed Cherokee Indian Artist Willard Stone of Locust Grove, OK. Willard did not have a roll number so Jason can not label his art as Indian Art.
Fauxcahontas!
His ancestor either didn’t apply or was denied for any number of reasons. Sometime it was due to having lived apart from the tribe for generations and having no association with them. You run into that more with the Eastern Band, since intermarriage was relatively common going back to the seventeenth century. Wives that just sort of pop up in censuses, family Bibles or other records with no known family, no surname ever mentioned and often an unusual name, almost like a nickname, were often Cherokee. Can’t always prove it though.
I have the cheekbones too (lol) brown eyes, dark complexion but blondish brown hair. When she said she had the cheekbones I had to laugh. No, Elizabeth, you don’t!
I also didn’t apply for some protected class to get ahead. I’m just a regular AMERICAN who works their butt off for what I have without any government help. Yes, I built it myself.
Elizabeth Warren-—the upscale version of Ward Churchill.
A total fraud.
I have Mc in my name, so I am Irish, with a little Scotch splashed on...
Yes, but you have NOT answered those questions, Elizabeth Warren. Are you just copying President Obama in keeping records sealed, while demanding that others reveal and explain all? Is not that hypocritical, Elizabeth?
It is as difficult to tell the truth as it is to lower taxes for a Democrat.
I remember some liberal radical Indian from AIM (American Indian Movement ) complaining about The Brave's mascot, Chief Noc-A-Homa, being a white guy dressed up in an outfit.
When informed that Levi Walker was, indeed, a full blooded Indian, he asked what tribe and when told "Odawa", he said, "Oh....those guys just hung around the fort".
Right Wing Nut no click-em on pic to hear pretty Indian Love Call song about Libtard Squaw ... tune heap not funny!
Isn’t Chief Cody Italian or something? I don’t think he was an indian.
LOL Great movie
Smoked too much k'nick-k'nick.
Always a 'Cherokee Princess' in there somewhere...
Ann Romney has "high" cheekbones. Does that mean that she is of native American heritage?
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