Cherokee nation rains on Elizabeth Warren's parade

americanthinker.com ^ | Monica Showalter

[RoosterRedux]

The Cherokee nation is likely inundated by white wannabees who keep claiming membership in their much-admired tribe. There's a reason the Stanford professor friend of hers, who did the DNA test, was unable to compare Warren's genome to a genuine Cherokee genome, and had to use a Latin American one instead as an approximation: The Native Americans don't want that out there. They don't like whites to manipulate it to claim membership, because they already know who their members are. If they did, they'd have every idiot out there claiming to have Cherokee blood and a claim on Cherokee tribal membership. Fake Indian and leftist Ward Churchill would be the first in line after Warren.

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And it's not just the Cherokees who are disgusted. Leftish Simon Moya-Smith, a Native American member of the Oglala-Lakota tribe had some harsh words for her, too:

Warren claims now to have Native American heritage. And her claim to having such heritage -- versus a claim of actually being Native -- feels sneaky to me. Where has she been on these many issues that plague our communities? Although the results from her DNA test are new, her identity claims here aren't. Why has she ignored us for so long? Why only now come around? This latest disclosure lets her save face without having responsibilities to the Native community she's claiming to share heritage with. Furthermore, name me one nation or tribe that claims her. None do.

It's obvious to anyone with eyes in their sockets or brains in their heads: because Warren needs our stamp of approval and our vote as she contemplates a potential presidential run. That's why.

[elcid1970]

Remember when Jane Fonda railed at the Atlanta Braves for selling foam tomahawks for doing the Tomahawk Chop cheer?

The tribe that made the tomahawks told Hanoi Jane to get lost.

[RatRipper]

According to accounts of my father and his mother, my paternal Great-Great Grandfather was married to a full blooded Cherokee Indian. If I figured right, that makes me one-sixteenth Cherokee. I have great respect for native American culture and I count it a positive that my ancestry is a small part native American. However, I never have, and never will, used that to define who I am. I am what I believe and do.

Identity politics claims victimhood or privilege based on your birthright heritage . . . the “color of your skin”, to use a common phrase. That being so, identity politics is every bit as racist as illegal forms of discrimination. Elizabeth Warren is guilty of that which she claims to abhor. That being the case, in that she has tried to advance her political career and power using racist tactics, she is the worst kind of hypocrite.