We’re All Native Americans Now: Elizabeth Warren demonstrates the folly of identity politics

Wall Street Journal ^ | October 15, 2018 | The Editors

[billorites]

Any doubt that Elizabeth Warren plans to run for President ended Monday when the Massachusetts Senator released a DNA analysis indicating that she probably does have some trace of distant Native American ancestry.

The former Harvard professor went so far as to unveil a website and video featuring an analysis by Stanford professor Carlos Bustamante, who said that while Ms. Warren is mainly European she likely has some Native American ancestry “in the range of 6-10 generations ago.”

This makes her between 1/64th and 1/1024th Native American, which barely spares her the humiliation of not having any after she had listed herself as Native American on federal forms filed by Harvard and Penn law schools where she had worked. On the other hand, she also looks silly for making so much of so little. As Americans are learning as the costs of genetic testing fall, nearly all of us have multiple ethnic and racial backgrounds. Ms. Warren tried to make an identity politics virtue of a genetic banality.

Credit on this point goes to Donald Trump, who mocked Ms. Warren’s genetic boast and no doubt prompted her to get the truth out before the 2020 campaign begins. Ms. Warren now says Mr. Trump should make good on his boast to write a $1 million check to charity if Ms. Warren proved she had Native American blood.

Write the check, Donald. You’ll look gracious, and you’ll have an amusing talking point and photograph that will last the entire 2020 campaign.

[DBrow]

“Elizabeth Warren must be stupid in addition to being a compulsive liar and a power-hungry leftist. How could she not know that this would make her look even more foolish.”

For $99 she got most of the enemedia chanting that she’s a Native American, and is using it to attack Trump. From her point of view that’s a smart investment.

The media, compliantly, is selectively misquoting Trump to have him say something he did not say.

[ConservativeDude]

ahhh...he was awesome.

[Starboard]

Pale face woman is fake squaw.

[proud American in Canada]

Hey, I’ll thumb wrestle for it with you. ;)

Seriously, I don’t have any English blood...maybe less than 1/1064 percent, so I officially offer it to you. (I’m half Czech and on my Mom’s side, a weird mix of Swedish, going back, Scottish and Jewish).

My great-grandfather was Jewish. But he fell in love with a Scottish girl. He married her and was disenfranchised by his family. Had he stayed in the family, we would have been Rich today. Because they started up a line of department stores. LOL

[proud American in Canada]

Exactly! Starting today, I am self-identifying as a space alien. That must get me something! LOL

[AuH2ORepublican]

Funny how that works. Practically no one has an ethnically homogeneous family tree—I’ve found ancestors that hailed from all over Europe and the Middle East, and most Americans likely would find the same if they went back far enough.

If your great-grandmother (from whence your kinship with Queen Elizabeth originates) was Scottish, then you are 1/8th British and likely have a lot more English blood than I do. My kinship with QE comes from my Irish great-great-great-great-grandfather, who was largely of English (well, Anglo-Norman) ancestry, so I’m only 1/64th of British Isles descent. It’s a trivial percentage of my ancestry, but I’m still more Anglo-Irish than Senator Fauxcahontas (aka Liawatha) is Native American.

[proud American in Canada]

Interesting!

I have a theory that someday, we all will be light shades of brown.

I could be wrong but with intermarriage and such it just seems like people faLl in love and have mixed race babies

Well I don’t know I hope I live long enough to see what’s going to happen:-)

[Impy]

There is an approximately zero% chance I have even a drop of Indian blood.

But I have cousins, their mom in half Ho Chunk, they are a 25%. They all get casino money.

[GOPsterinMA]

https://youtu.be/mBS0OWGUidc

[Liz]

<><> a 1996 piece in Fordham Law Review celebrated Warren as Harvard Law School’s “first woman of color.”

<><> Harvard’s 1999 Affirmative Action Plan Book appears to identify Warren as N/A, not by name, but it could not possibly be anyone else.

The latter document is important b/c:
(A) Harvard is considered a federal contractor,
(B) its employment practices fall under the Dept of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP).
(C) the compliance program “requires “ a contractor, to discover barriers to equal employment opportunity.

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WIKI-—OFCCP administers and enforces three legal authorities that require equal employment opportunity:

<><> Executive Order 11246, as amended;

<><> Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended; and.

<><> the Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act of 1974, as amended, 38 U.S.C. 4212.

These authorities prohibit Federal contractors and subcontractors from discriminating on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, and protected veteran status. They also require Federal contractors and subcontractors to take affirmative action to ensure equal employment opportunity in their employment processes. Its regulations can be found at CFR Title 41 Chapter 60: Public Contracts and Property Management.