Posted on 05/15/2012 9:23:20 PM PDT by bkopto
Elizabeth Warren has pushed back hard on questions about a Harvard Crimson piece in 1996 that described her as Native American, saying she had no idea the school where she taught law was billing her that way and saying it never came up during her hiring a year earlier, which others have backed up.
But a 1997 Fordham Law Review piece described her as Harvard Law School's "first woman of color," based, according to the notes at the bottom of the story, on a "telephone interview with Michael Chmura, News Director, Harvard Law (Aug. 6, 1996)."
The mention was in the middle of a lengthy and heavily-annotated Fordham piece on diversity and affirmative action and women. The title of the piece, by Laura Padilla, was "Intersectionality and positionality: Situating women of color in the affirmative action dialogue."
"There are few women of color who hold important positions in the academy, Fortune 500 companies, or other prominent fields or industries," the piece says. "This is not inconsequential. Diversifying these arenas, in part by adding qualified women of color to their ranks, remains important for many reaons. For one, there are scant women of color as role models. In my three years at Stanford Law School, there were no professors who were women of color. Harvard Law School hired its first woman of color, Elizabeth Warren, in 1995."
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
I first heard that joke many moons ago from a full-blooded Winnebago Indian. He totally sucked me in, until he relayed the punch line.
Post of the week. This should absolutely go viral.
Chief Wild Eagle: “Then come big day. Tribe fall over cliff. Medicine man turn to chief and say “Where the heck are we”.”
Corporal Eagarn: “You know what your tribe needs? Another cliff.”
Blond hair, blue eyes, and pink skin. Yep, she's a woman of color. Now can we grow up and stop pretending that color should matter? How about we follow the dream that some day our children will live in a world where they are judged by the content of their character and not the color of their skin (even if that color happens to be is white or pink).
Pink, of course!
Directions to Elizabeth Warren’s house:
Go down road 3 mile, come to big rock, look like bear, go left;
Take road 2 mile, come to big bear, look like rock.
But, but... Elizabeth Warren once rode in a Jeep Cherokee while wearing moccasins she bought in Boston‘s Back Bay.
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