Posted on 06/01/2012 5:00:38 AM PDT by billorites
She has given clumsy answers, evaded questions, and for five weeks running allowed the story of her undocumented Native American ancestry to consume the entire Senate campaign in Massachusetts.
Thursday afternoon, my phone rang with Democratic candidate Elizabeth Warren on the other end of the line, ready to talk. Finally.
On the phone, she spoke sometimes expansively and without the slightest hint of apology about her conviction that she has maternal roots from the Cherokee and Delaware tribes. “I know who I am,’’ Warren said. “I know my heritage.’’
A moment later, in response to a question over whether she took any professional advantage of her self-identification as Native American, she said, “I won’t deny who I am, I won’t deny my heritage, but I didn’t ask for anything because of it.’’
Warren conceded for the first time that she is worried about how the issue of her self-identification as a Native American - which first surfaced in a Boston Herald story on April 27 - has overwhelmed virtually all other aspects of the campaign.
“Of course I’m concerned,’’ she said. “I decided to run for the Senate because the middle class has been hammered and Washington doesn’t get it. I want to talk about Scott Brown’s voting record.
“He has worked hard to make this campaign about anything else, even my heritage, and he’s not spending time on what Massachusetts voters are concerned about,’’ she said.
And so it went for the duration of a 30-minute telephone conversation, one in which Warren repeatedly and adamantly proclaimed that the law schools at Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania hired her as a professor because of her scholarship and teaching abilities, not to improve diversity on their faculties.
Both schools listed her on federal labor forms as Native American...
(Excerpt) Read more at bostonglobe.com ...
Blind too I see....
She’s unfit to hold public office. Which means she’ll be elected in a landslide.
Does anyone think Warren could get away with claiming to be Black if her family lore said some distant relative was descended from slaves and had dark complexion? Why should it be any different for claiming to be Native American?
Actually, it's the perfect motto for them. Really brassy liars always self-advertise as being made of truth.
Fauxcahontas, too!!
This whole adventure is an useful object lesson.
The government’s absurd method of inventorying people into political groups is being exposed.
Love the side by side photos of white Hispanic and her blue eyed blond Native American picture.
Profound irony.
She may be lying about her heritage but she is right about the attitude toward Native Americans at that time.
An elderly aunt told my husband years ago that “yes there had been an Indian grandmother in the family but don’t worry she was the white folks kind of Indian”.
My husband wanted nothing more that to be part Indian at the time so he was thrilled.
Family stories get confused (don’t mean to be taking up for her) but my grandfather’s and my father’s first name was Austin. We were supposed to be descended from Stephen F. Austin. I started trying to figure that one out and discovered that Stephen F. Austin never married and had no (legal) children. Uh Oh Grandmother would not have approved! :D
Seems like denying who she is is actually her specialty.
She speaks like she is proud to be a native american, that she won’t hide it, but will demonstrate her heritage through her life.
The problem with this latest version is that she has never done anything publicly to honor that heritage. In fact, she was so secretive about it that her own campaign, when they did their own research into her background to see if anything would cause trouble, found NO references to her indian heritage.
They were blindsided by this information when it came out. So, how can you be “proud” of your heritage and yet keep it so secret that nobody knows about it until the dig around in your past?
In light of the fact that she hasn’t made it public, you have to ask why she told her employer and other groups. That’s why it looks like she was using it for advantage — the only organizations that knew about her “heritage” were those for which that knowledge would gain her advantage.
It wasn’t on her campaign website, or in any Bio she had publicized. She didn’t think it important — but she told Harvard?
That's an excellent point.
Don't laugh. She's the daughter of Fauxhatan.
The author of this column, Brian McGrory, is a second cousin of the liberal journalist and Kennedy sychophant Mary McGrory who died in 2004.
...In case anybody was wondering.
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