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 She identified as white in historical documents, though at the time Indians faced discrimination, and Smith would have had strong incentives to call herself white if possible.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.
“Both of my Maternal Grandparents came from Italy on the same ship from the same village.
And when I had my DNA tested, it said I had a 10% chance of being Italian.
Go figure. “
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In other words,this DNA testing is a complete waste of time——and people are getting rich on this foolishness.
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Unbelievable that all this time, energy and money is being spent on this non-issue. Does she think this is really going to rally anyone with even a little trace of NA ancestry to vote for her. Another example of madness in America.
I’m a blue eyed blonde. My grandmothers father, so my great grandfather, was full blood Indian. We don’t know what kind but traced the family name back to Kentucky.
The big question is, how many people in the USA would qualify for special “Indian” perks if the standard for receiving benefits was Warren’s amount of Indian blood?
Some of my Asian ancestors came across the Bering Strait between 13 and 20 thousand years ago. I got to North America in 1966 (they never wrote us so we didn’t know where they had gone), but still, according to Elizabeth Warren I might one ten millionth Apache. Can I teach at Harvard? Maybe open a casino in my yard?
That would mean that in the best case scenario (6th generation) that Warren is only 1/64th Native American—not 1/32nd. LOL...
By this standard 95% of white people can now proclaim themselves a minority.
IOW, the “report” was generated in her favor by another academic, and can be and should be dismissed by any thinking person.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3696727/posts
Go for it! :0)
Perhaps not even a direct descendent, but had a common ancestor.
“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.”
Surely that’s enough to claim Native American status at a prestigious university. /sarc
Dunno where this fits in, but I ran across this item (no attribution) a while back and saved it just on General Principles. Anyone who will ever have DNA evidence used against them should tell his lawyer about this:
“FAKE PHANTOM KILLER (Germany)
For roughly two years, German cops were convinced because of DNA evidence that a serial killer was operating somewhere in the region of Heilbronn. They had tied at least a dozen serious crimes (from robbery to murder) to this one single individual.
At some point, it appears that a cop began to doubt the complex nature of this whole case and he sent a blank DNA swab to the analysis office.
It came back identifying the Phantom Killer to the non-existent crime. This was a problem now. So, they looked at the packing of the DNA swabs and went to the company that manufactured them. The company wasn’t aware of this DNA usage....they simply sold their product to a 3rd party, who packaged it as DNA swabs. There was no control and individuals at the company were openly in contact with the swabs during production.
The whole fake phantom killer investigation? Literally thousands of man-hours thrown into this....totally wasted.”
More likely this is defensive, shows that Trump was getting to her with his Pocahontas jokes
“These DNA companies are a scam”
No, some are legit. Hard to tell with this guy.
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