Elizabeth Warren’s goose is cooked No morsel of truth in her Indian identity

Boston Herald ^

[outpostinmass2]

If I might make one suggestion before the updated version of the “Pow Wow Chow” cookbook is released: Next time, Liz, hold the mayo.

Even if you were 1/1000th Native American — which you’re not — and even if Cherokees did hold pow wows — which Cherokee genealogist Twila Barnes told the Herald yesterday they don’t — even then, your contribution to authentic teepee cuisine is “Crab With Tomato Mayonnaise Dressing?”

Why didn’t you throw in Tuna Casserole and Some Twinkies while you’re at it?

Like her recipe (“serve salad with remaining mayo on the side”), everything about Liz Warren screams “I’m white!”

In fact, I doubt you know anyone who is more “white” than Professor Pow Wow Chow. Her blond hair, her blue eyes, her pale, freckled skin, her wealth, her white-collar job at a “white-kid” Ivy League college, her liberal-suburbs-white-lady politics — Liz Warren is a walking, talking tribute to “Guilty, Affluent White People Who Listen To NPR” American culture.

Which is why it’s so offensively shocking to read report after report about Warren as a “woman of color.” That’s the exact phrase used 15 years ago in an in-depth article from the Fordham University Law Review about minority women in academia: “Harvard Law School hired its first woman of color, Elizabeth Warren, in 1995.”

And she’s got the cookbook to prove it!

Nobody cares that Liz Warren is not really 1/32nd or 1/64th Native American. What’s off-putting is that Warren is so clearly not a minority member in any meaningful sense of the word.

When this article and others were published describing Warren this way, she should have objected. She should have corrected the record on behalf of those Americans who have truly suffered because of their race. But instead she spent her career, as she put it, “checking the box.”

Here’s the reaction to Warren’s self-serving box-checking from “Polly’s Granddaughter,” a Cherokee Indian and genealogist in an open letter to Harvard Law’s “first woman of color”:

“You say you only ‘checked the box’ in an attempt to meet others like you, but that doesn’t make sense. If one is claiming to be Cherokee and wants to meet other Cherokees, they don’t ‘check a box’ on a job application or in a directory for their profession! They go to where Cherokees are.”

“You are from Oklahoma!” (emphasis in original)

Polly’s Granddaughter is absolutely right. As I’ve written previously, my mom was born in Oklahoma, and her great-grandmother, Nancy Hill, was a Cherokee from the Oklahoma territories. I also attended college in Tulsa, Okla. Meeting Indians in Oklahoma is as easy as knocking on a neighbor’s door and saying “Hi, wanna come over for some crab-and-mayonnaise salad?”

Being from Oklahoma also means there’s a good chance Warren also encountered anti-Indian prejudice first-hand. I only lived there a few years, and I did. I ran into some Okies who spoke about Native Americans the way the worst Southern whites talked about black Americans.

Those are the Native Americans the phrase “person of color” is intended for, not “Former member of ABBA” look-alike Liz Warren.

She knows this. She’s known it her whole life. Yet she’s chosen to play the role of suffering minority member, thereby making a mockery of the real suffering of others

[oneamericanvoice]

I don’t like liars, but I must take exception with some of your points.

First, proving Indian heritage isn’t as easy as it is for some other groups.

Second, targeting someone because they are rich is not a Conservative tactic. We leave that to the Left.

[cloudmountain]

My eldest daughter (some years ago)took piano lessons from a Chinese lady. She was a single mother with one daughter; and, when my girl was looking at colleges she enthusiastically told me that there are lots and lots of scholarships out there. I nearly laughed in her face (I didn't); but, it really struck me that this woman honestly believed the BS that they were now getting things that "Whites" had always gotten.

What ISN'T funny is that those scholarship people are giving away that money to the "poor, ignored minorities," NOT having A CLUE at to which minorities are the poor and ignored and which minorities JUST DON'T NEED HELP. That would be the majority of Chinese in THIS country who DO NOT need any help whatsoever. They just take the money and laugh at the STUPID Americans who know NOTHING about the
CIAs = Chinese in America, who can be almost anything, according to their passports.
FOB = Fresh of the Boat/Boeing, who may or may NOT need help.
ABC = American Born Chinese, who may or may NOT need help.

Duh: equating minority with poor/needy is JUST AS STUPID as equating majority (Read that as "white.") with NOT poor/needy.

[Mr Rogers]

Another review:

“According to the book, you are supposed to insist that a particular ingredient is in the dish, instead of it actually being there.”

[oneamericanvoice]

Not necessarily.

But on another point, Indians didn’t have princess and princes. Whites invented that to explain to the kings and queens the tribal heirarchy, therefore the daughters of a principal chief was referred to as a princess.

The only princess now are the pow wow princesses who represent a specific pow wow.

BTW, thank you for your service! I was born at Annapolis to a career Navy man. My mom had been in the Army, which is the branch I served in.

[ConservativeDude]

And not only do Cherokees not hold pow wows...but Warren shamelessly plagiarized three of the recipes that she submitted to Pow Wow Chow!

All I can say is WOW!

liberal lies, the jokes write themselves: first black president of harvard law review who was born in Kenya, well, maybe not....meet the first woman of color on faculty there who is native American, well, maybe not.....bwa haha haah

[Deb]

This woman is such an icon to the left and practically a deity to NPR and Mika Brzezinski, its fantastic to see her mocked and ridiculed in such an epic way. She devised and planned to head the Consumer Protection Agency that was placed by Dodd/Frank out from under ANY congressional oversight and with a limitless yearly budget that could not be revised down. Her plan was to bring down the American banking system.

She was blocked by the Republicans in the Senate and decided to withdraw and run for a seat herself.

Thank God she is being exposed.

[ChildOfThe60s]

I don’t like liars, but I must take exception with some of your points.

Please do.

First, proving Indian heritage isn’t as easy as it is for some other groups.

Not relevant here. It is well established she has no Indian heritage. The point is she made it up. And it is a sad, pathetic commentary on our society that anyone could (her & and all of her enablers) make a big production and special privileges for 1/32 of *anything*. Indian or anything else. I'm 1/16 Cherokee & can prove it. So what? Big damn deal. Beyond the fact that it is an interesting part of my family heritage it should be meaningless. Unless of course one is a well off white liberal. Then it makes one eligible.

Second, targeting someone because they are rich is not a Conservative tactic. We leave that to the Left.

I am not targeting her because she is rich. I am exposing her hypocrisy. Rich whitey faking an infinitesimally small amount of minority blood to further her ambitions; ironically among those that claim to so despise the....hypocrisy of rich white people.

There are [at least] two relevant points to this affair.

1-The disgusting slobbering over this woman for decades for something that shouldn't have mattered even if it were true.

2- The immoral grubbing for special privileges from a member of the egalitarian left, the ultimate hypocrisy.

[Elsie]

Many people only know Indians from the pow wow that they’ve attened, where they mainly introduced to fry bread.

Yum, indeed!

And ONLY use Blue Bird Flour!

Twin Rocks CAfe Bluff, Utah makes some GOOD burgers withthem!

[Theodore R.]

I would suspect that a huge number of MA voters don’t even know about this Cherokee scam by Ms. Warren.

[Elsie]

I would suspect that a huge number of MA voters don’t even know about this Cherokee scam by Ms. Warren.

I would suspect that a huge number of USA voters don’t even know about this 'minority' scam by it's own GOVERNMENT.

[oneamericanvoice]

Absolutely, use Blue Bird flour. Unfortunately, they don’t sell it out here. It makes all the difference!

Those burgers sound terrific! Lucky you!

[oneamericanvoice]

I said at the outset that my response was not so much about Warren as it is about Indian heritage. There are those that would try to make those of us with that heritage get rid of those ancestors because they are considered "too removed". I had a government worker as me to pick one racial identity, and after repeated attempts to explain that I can't because I am two, I realized that those words didn't mean people, but were abstracts. I have never, nor will I ask for anything because of my Indian heritage. Rich whitey faking an infinitesimally small amount of minority blood... You are targeting her as rich, just as you are for claiming to be part Cherokee. The degree to which someone has blood is the tool that the government used. Everyone of your ancestors is important to who you are. They should not be measured however large or small. They are a fact of your existence.

[ChildOfThe60s]

You are targeting her as rich, just as you are for claiming to be part Cherokee.

I am not quite clear where you are going with the rest of your response. So, I can only respond to the part.

Yes, I am hitting her on both points. But not in isolation, which I think you are misunderstanding.

I am hitting her on the rich part because she is lying through her teeth to get freebees. Freebees as in status and position and attention. Look at me, poor me, I have Cheokee blood in me. Give me a position and attention.

Pretty much ditto for the Cherokee part. Again, she's a lying attention whore. No different than if her ancestors were landed gentry and she claimed special privileges because she falsely stated her inordinately distant relative cleaned stoops in Queens.

It's not *rich*, nor is it "Cherokee". It is the lying hypocrisy. The fact that she is well off anyway is just a little more nauseating.

[Elsie]

Not 'lucky', but blessed. My wife and I had entered the cafe just behind a group of four fellows, workers in the local area. Those guys got a table for four, while we sat at a booth seat next to the window. When the waitress came to take our drink order, I pointed out that they were here first. The perky Navajo gal looks their way, and, with a sassy Mel's Diner attitude, says loud enough to get their attention:

"Them? Ah.. they come here all the time. They ain't gonna mind waiting a bit." (I think you CAN order BBF online.) Remembering; I still get a chuckle out of it!

[Elsie]

 

Blue Bird Flour is the flour used by the people of the Navajo Nation for making fry bread. The most important ingredient is Blue Bird Flour. The Navajo people won’t use anything else. If you want traditional Native Fry bread then you have to have Blue Bird! Navajo Fry Bread recipe: 4 cupsBlue Bird Flour 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/2 teaspoon baking powder 1-2 cups hot water Mix the first 3 ingredients. Now here is the trick to making fry bread. You have to add just enough of the the hot water to make a dough, not to sticky not to dry. Mix with your hand as you add the water. Kneed until smooth. Cover and let rest while you heat the oil. Here is another thing that is the traditional way to make fry bread. You must use Lard. You can use Vegetable oil but its just not the same. Lard is best. Heat until smoking, yes smoking. Now take a egg size piece of dough and roll it out until about the size of a donut. Then pick it up and pat it between your hands, stretching as you go. The idea here is to get it pretty thin. Like a very thin pizza dough. Now put it into the grease be careful it’s HOT! Let cook until brown on the first side. If your lard is hot enough that should be very quick, like flash frying. Flip and let cook on other side. Drain on paper towels. Now you can eat it like the Navajo do with just a little salt sprinkled on. You can put on honey(yummy) or top it with beans, cheese, lettuce, tomato, onion and have a Navajo Taco. Also wonderful used as the bun for a hamburger, here in NM its called a Navajo burger. Also wonderful with a grilled green chillies and thin sliced mutton or steak. Now I am just making myself hungry, Enjoy!

[oneamericanvoice]

The Blue Bird ad person (probably a non-Native) who wrote that Navajos won’t use anything else is wrong. If you can’t get Blue Bird then you use something else.

The trick to making fry bread is getting the oil just right.

You can put a hot dog in the middle and then fry it. Love those!

Navajos aren’t the only ones to make bread. I saw bread in the Seri village on the beach of Bajia Kino (Kino Bay) in the ‘70s.