Posted on 10/15/2018 7:55:37 AM PDT by sickoflibs
PDATE: Some math by the Boston Globe was wrong. See below. It should be 1/1,024.
What do you get when you put Senator Elizabeth Warren and 31 other white people in a room? One whole Native American.
Warren is gearing up for what appears to be a 2020 presidential run. Ahead of such a move, she has decided to settle the question of her ancestry once and for all. Despite her claims, however, I don’t think it’s actually the answer she really wanted. Via the Boston Globe:
Senator Elizabeth Warren has released a DNA test that provides “strong evidence’’ she had a Native American in her family tree dating back 6 to 10 generations, an unprecedented move by one of the top possible contenders for the 2020 Democratic nomination for president.
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Bustamante calculated that Warren’s pure Native American ancestor appears in her family tree “in the range of 6-10 generations ago.” That timing fits Warren’s family lore, passed down during her Oklahoma upbringing, that her great-great-great-grandmother, O.C. Sarah Smith, was at least partially Native American.
Smith was born in the late 1700s. She identified as white in historical documents, though at the time Indians faced discrimination, and Smith would have had strong incentives to call herself white if possible.
The inherent imprecision of the six-page DNA analysis could provide fodder for Warren’s critics. If her great-great-great-grandmother was Native American, that puts her at 1/32nd American Indian. But the report includes the possibility that she’s just 1/512th Native American if the ancestor is 10 generations back.
Here’s the thing that even a simple Google search will reveal: 1/32 is, at best, a controversial claim of Native American ancestry within the Native American community. While she’s not asking for membership to any tribe, the best case scenario for a 1/32 claim is that it makes her like most white people, the vast majority of whom don’t identify as Native American.
To say she’s anywhere between 1/32 and 1/512 is a laughable claim at best… granted, her attempts in the past to prove her heritage, including the infamous Pow Wow Chow recipes, have been just as funny. The problem for Warren is that there is now scientific proof that her claim is more of a joke than anything.
UPDATE: The fractions were off.
BOSTON GLOBE: "Due to a math error, a story about Elizabeth Warren misstated the ancestry percentage of a potential 10th generation relative. It should be 1/1,024."
— Saagar Enjeti (@esaagar) October 15, 2018
Cut your losses, Liz.
Bet that cost her a pretty penny. Like “surveys”, tests like this more often reflect the results desired by the person paying for them.
Well heck, I can run as an African-American because of the “Out of Africa” theory, right?
Or maybe a Neandertal-American because of my European genes? Just imagine the oppression card I could play due to having an extinct species in my DNA!
You OWE me reparations for killing my ancestors..REEEEeee!
I firmly believe Warren comes from a long line of fake indians.
So basically the Leftist adgenda of extermination of the white race is complete? ;-)
Hey, I’m .1% indian...more than she is!
10 Generations? They found Monkey in her DNA
So, 1/1024 = 0.0977% which is likely zero, given errors in testing. Especially if she sent a sample to a hand picked DemonicRat tester. Would have a bit more credibility if the sample was submitted anonymously to several labs when one is looking for such an obscure percentage.
Frankly, this result does nothing to bolster the fake Indians case.
BOSTON GLOBE: “Due to a math error, a story about Elizabeth Warren misstated the ancestry percentage of a potential 10th generation relative. It should be 1/1,024.”
Error, yeah right.
Native American should mean anyone born in the USA.She means American Indian ancestry.
I think real Native Americans are going to have a problem with Gray Beaver’s DNA test results.
So the results show she’s 99.09% white?
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Warren is the Ivory Soap of Native Americans. 99 9/10ths white.
Made me laugh
There was a story a few months back that workers at 23 and Me were putting ‘black blood’ into the results of people they thought were racists — for the fun of it.
The entire operation is likely a Deep State cover-up (like Facebook) to build a genetic profile database. It’s already led to one arrest of a serial killer.
Amusing they get people to pay for the service of giving away their DNA. They’re also reselling the info to big pharma.
I have no idea how much but my Son-in-Law and both my Grandchildren are on the rolls in Oklahoma. They can use the Indian hospital tho they probably never will as they have double coverage anyway.
All are blue eyed blonds.
“her attempts in the past to prove her heritage, including the infamous Pow Wow Chow recipes”
As with the whole Kavanaugh fiasco, people seem to be grossly ignorant of what “evidence” and “proof” are.
Putting a recipe in a book of recipes is not at attempt to prove anything, because it has absolutely no capability of proving or disproving anything, It is simply not probative.
Math is HARD!
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