[billorites]

“In the 1930s, when my parents got married, these were hard issues,’’ Warren said. “My father’s family so objected to my mother’s Native American heritage that my mother told me they had to elope.

Another whopper. It's like a compulsion.

First rule when you find yourself in a hole...

[Ditter]

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

[Brilliant]

Seems like denying who she is is actually her specialty.

[CharlesWayneCT]

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?

[Lancey Howard]

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.

[Amagi]

Warren: ‘I won’t deny who I am’

Swell, Liz, but will you be refraining from claiming who you're not any time soon?

[exit82]

I have heard of the one percenters, but never a three percenter.

[Clinging Bitterly]

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