Posted on 10/18/2018 2:44:31 PM PDT by Track9
..This is the trap that Warren fell into. From the very moment she claimed her small amount of Native American ancestry as an identity politics virtue, race defined her and her career at every turn. Then, just as we recently witnessed, this path led to her being exposed as a fraud before the entire nation. What a sad fate.
But this is not the worst of it. Warren’s claim of Native American ancestry made her complicit in identity politics’ institutional racism.
The powers behind identity politics have long abandoned the hard work of helping impoverished Americans climb out of poverty and into the middle class through education, ambition and hard work.
Today, all that matters to many universities is whether they have enough of each racial and ethnic group with minority status represented.
In Warren’s case, universities didn’t care that she had blond hair, blue eyes and never lived on a reservation. They were more than happy to add another body to the Native American category, upping their diversity bona fides.
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I think she's probably lived the lie and repeated it often enough that she came to believe it was true. She may have had a handler or two who cautioned against this, but she dismissed them out of hand thinking the results would actually confirm her story.
For little girls who watch Disney movies like Pocohontas or see Tiger Lily in Peter Pan, or watch cowboy and Indian moves like I did as a kid, it’s a childhood fantasy to be an Indian girl, daughter of a chief, ride a pony and wear your hair in Indian braids. Elizabeth Warren just never grew out of it.
I was thinking today. Ya know how the pro football team in DC has a PC problem with it name?
How about changing the name to “The Washington Warrens?”
Ha ha—and from the Globe, too!
Elizabeth Warren struck a deal with the devil when she became a Democrat.
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