Posted on 07/09/2018 5:48:05 AM PDT by calvincaspian
President Trump mocked U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s Cherokee heritage claims again last week with an offer of $1 million to the charity of her choice if a DNA test proves her right.
Trump made the rambling taunt at a Montana rally. “I’m gonna get one of those kits and in the middle of the debate when she proclaims that she’s of Indian heritage, because her mother says she has high cheekbones, that’s her only evidence that her mother said she has high cheekbones. We will take that little kit, and say, but we have to do it gently because we’re in the #MeToo generation, so we have to do it very gently,” Trump said. “And we will very gently take that kit and we will slowly toss it hoping it doesn’t hit her and injure her arm, even though it probably only weighs two ounces.”
(Excerpt) Read more at bostonherald.com ...
For Warren, the standards for cultural appropriation have also shifted and if she runs for president there is likely to be a reckoning. Sen. Warren should clear the air on the matter. In his own way, President Trump has been doing her a favor by bringing it up.
You make a great point!
Trump always keeps the pressure on. I love it.
She lied.
Harvard knew she lied.
Says all that needs be said about both.
Where is the OUTRAGE for a fake Indian getting SCHOLARSHIPS, etc. for her NON-ethnicity? She’s spent a DEFRAUDING Federal laws at the American tax-payer’s expense.
LOCK HER UP! ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!
If a boy can say he’s a girl, why can’t an old white lady says she’s an Indian?
She’s trans-racial!
warren would be out if it weren’t the L in LGBT.
She’s spent a lifetime DEFRAUDING Federal laws at the American tax-payer’s expense.
>>If a boy can say he’s a girl, why can’t an old white lady says she’s an Indian?
She’s trans-racial!<<
She(?) just can’t wear hoop earrings while doing it.
She can but..... If she does it fradulently for money, the practice is criminal.
If she uses the degree obtained by fraud, her actions forever become the forbidden fruit of the criminal tree ( Ben Matlock school of law)
“Harvard knew she lied.
Says all that needs be said about both.”
I have a friend who, while interviewing for a graduate position, was approached by Harvard in a manner outside the rules for recruitment. It was a computerized ‘match’ recruitment, in which the applicant lists their top choices and the institutions list theirs. They contacted him to say they really wanted him, and would put him at the top of their match list if he guaranteed them that he would put them first on his list. He said to them ‘Isn’t this outside the rules of the match program?’. They said, ‘yes, but it’s good for Harvard, and what’s good for Harvard is good for the world’. True story.
Other programs also try to cheat the match, but the arrogance evidenced by that statement is very telling.
All Liz Warren has to do for about $65 is contact ancestries.com for her DNA check. That would settle the argument. Could she be afraid of her DNA results????
Oh it's been resolved.
She might get lucky -it could show she has some African heritage...that would be double points!
She gets a free pass cuz she a lefty.
One family member of mine who doesn’t like Trump was offended by him calling her Pocahontas. I explained to said family member the reasons why - because Warren has likely falsely claimed native heritage.
Said person completely ignored this and continued attacking Trump as a racist for calling her Pocahontas.
It’s amazing the leftist mind-set. There simply is no reasoning with them.
Never liked Matlock.
I prefer the Perry Mason school of TV law even though Perry couldn’t pull off most of what he did in real life.
A friend of ours stayed over one time who was a practicing criminal attorney. That morning, a PM rerun was on. All I heard was no, that doesn’t happen, that would never be allowed, and other objections. It was interesting to say the least.
As often noted, William F. Buckley Jr. said he would rather be governed by the first 2,000 names in the Boston telephone directory than by the 2,000 members of the Harvard faculty.
I'm no fan of Warren, not by a long shot, but that's not what she did. Here's the story - if we're going to hold this against her, we need to get it right:
She earned her law degree and became a law professor at "lesser tier" law schools like Rutgers, University of Houston, and University of Texas. By all accounts she was a good prof and we can't take that from her.
However, she wanted to up her game and become a prof at a top tier law school.
One of her stratagems, apparently, for doing so, was listing herself as a Native American in the AALS Directory of Law Teachers, which was the "Who's Who" of the law professor world. Whether UPenn picked her up because they wanted to hire a female minority is open to speculation, but it's pretty apparent that Harvard did when they "stole" Warren from UPenn in the mid 1990s. At the time, Harvard Law was under pressure from its students and others for a lack of diversity in the faculty, particularly minority women.
At the time of her hire, Harvard Law touted Warren as a diversity hire. Of course, they won't admit it now, and everyone will say she was hired because of her qualifications, but what would you expect them to say? "Yeah, we hired her because she's a minority woman?"
Warren stopped listing herself as a Native American shortly after she was hired by Harvard.
Of note: When questioned why she self-identified as a Native American in the directory, Warren has stated (and I'm paraphrasing) that it was because she wanted to socialize / meet up with other Native Americans like herself. Which she never did. There are stories out there in the ether from actual Native American students where she taught who say she never participated in clubs, events, or anything of the sort for Native Americans.
She is 100% guilty of cultural appropriation for economic gain, and only gets a pass because she's a progressive darling.
He absolutely needs to. As a descendant of Muskogee and Cherokee ancestors, I find her false claims based on ‘grandpa had high cheekbones’ offensive.
Thank you for that succinct explanation regarding the faux Indian Elizabeth Warren. It should be turned into a meme for everyone to see.
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