Posted on 12/14/2018 1:38:29 PM PST by Sub-Driver
Warren in College Commencement Speech: ‘I Am Not a Person of Color’
BY: Paul Crookston December 14, 2018 3:56 pm
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.) lamented the racism of her fellow white Americans Friday in a commencement speech at Morgan State University, a historically black college.
Admitting she is "not a person of color" after years of identifying as Cherokee, Warren focused on her economic message and how it ought to help disadvantaged minorities, the Washington Post reports. At the Baltimore college, she blamed America for failing to open doors for everyone and even overtly harming black people.
"As a country, we need to stop pretending that the same doors open for everyone, because they don’t," Warren said. "I’m not a person of color. And I haven’t lived your life or experienced anything like the subtle prejudice, or more overt harm, that you may have experienced just because of the color of your skin."
Warren released a video earlier this year discussing the pride she has in her Native American ancestry and touting a DNA test result showing she had one Native ancestor 6-10 generations ago. She has seemed to backtrack from her initial message about this finding, which was that it vindicated her claim to being Cherokee in the face of criticism from President Donald Trump and others.
Warren’s speech at Morgan State hit on her familiar themes, such as reining in Wall Street, but she couched them in terms of racial injustice in America. One of her main topics was the financial crisis that hit at the end of George W. Bush’s administration.
"Millions of people — black, white, Latino, Asian — lost their homes. Millions lost their jobs. Millions lost their savings — millions, tens of millions, but not the people at the top," she said.
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Polling and focus-group data probably indicate declaring oneself a progressive “Ally” against racial oppression is the best way to back out of the corner she has pained herself into.
She is not a woman of color, but she owes her prominence to the affirmative action that followed from her claiming minority status.
Did anybody let out an audible gasp?
Was anyone carried out on a gurney after fainting spells?
Didn’t think so.
The average person does not pay as close attention to politicians as we do here. I’ll bet most had no idea what she was talking about. All they know is she probably wouldn’t be here if she didn’t already hate Trump like most their teachers say they do.
As a person without color, she spoke with forked tongue.
An off-color speech.
Thanks for finally admitting the obvious, Elizabeth, but you have already garnered the rewards for your misrepresentations about yourself, have you not?
She’s a paleface.
... and she has been perpetuating the issue for many moons.
Then why are you pretending to be one?
Opening our border doors overtly harms black people, Lieawatha.
And everyone else.
And she is not real people.
Wouldn’t it have been easier to state she IS a person of pallor?
Probably should become a Republican..now that she is just a cracker like the rest of us?
“she blamed America for failing to open doors for everyone and even overtly harming black people.”
Sixty percent of black children grow up in fatherless homes. Truth be told, just who is failing?
To whom does America close its doors? There is a legal pathway for ANYONE to enter -- or at least to apply for entry -- into this country. True, we do NOT want degenerates, criminals, parasites, or malcontents (in other words, liberals). But people of decent moral character and a stable work ethic are welcome.
Tell me she would have been elected to the Senate without her phony Indian “background”.
To show good faith now, she should resign her Senate seat. Of course she won’t, and won’t leave the Senate until carried out feet first on a gurney.
Thank you, Massholes.
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