Warren's cashing in with her ancestry

Delicious !

Some of us do actually have Indian ancestry, in my case on both sides of the family, Lanape (Delaware) on my mother’s side and Cherokee on my dad’s. Even have the genealogy nailed down back to and a photograph of a mid 19th century direct ancestor on the Cherokee side. All that combined makes me 1/8 “Native American”. Have never attempted nor would I wish to play the system by claiming special status for that accident of birth. But it burns me to know there are Liberal bastards, many of them with no more real Indian ties than Custer, out there who do.

A Marriage Certificate with her great-great-great-grandmother was found listing her as Cherokee. It was found by the same guy who “found” Barack Obama’s birth certificate.

Ben Nighthorse Campbell said that after Dances with Wolves it became fashionable turn turn family lore into Native American ancestry.

I’ll bet she’s related to Ward Churchill.

Someway.

Somehow.

I’ve long advocated that anyone born in the USA respond to any government form requiring racial identification by checking “native american”.

If you looked out across the US, you would find many who have grandparents or great grandparents, who were either full blooded or half blooded American Indian. I am one of these, with a great grandparent who was an American Indian.

Like this professor, I wold have to really stretch my ancestry to qualify for these “opportunities”. Something is very wrong when we feel that we deserve something, because our parent or ancestor was discriminated against.

We are a nation of mongrels, who have been given the freedom and opportunity to achieve what people in other nations could only dream about as late as the early 1900’s.

People in other nations were born into classes and restricted to those classes as far as education, jobs, and opportunity. Nor could they move upward. In Great Britain under the British Empire these conditions existed until after WWI. In fact in many nations these conditions still exist.

This nation was the first to give individuals the opportunity for a free education and the opportunity for success, limited only by the individuals intellect and drive.

We now have a political party that panders to groups, and as part of the pandering categorizes and classifies individuals according to skin color for special treatment and opportunities. This all based on past injustice, or perceived current injustice.

The problem is that the rest of the citizenry has to pay for this pandering, despite having ancestors who fought and died to preserve the Union. A total of 618,000 men and women died with the result that Blacks were freed.

The majority of southerners were not fighting to defend slavery, but to defend their new nation, just as the founding fathers fought the British to create the United States.

Our citizenry,although not having ancestors who owned slaves (152 years ago),and in some cases having ancestors who fought against slavery, have to bear the brunt of accusations from the socialist intellectual elites.

This same intellectual group, when pressed, will deny that their political party was the author of the Jim Crow laws, despite having a former Grand Club of the KKK serving as one of their senator until just recently.

This same party fought against the Voter Right Law of 1965. This political party fought against school integration in the fifties, sixties, and seventies. Eventually this same party morphed itself into a branch of the socialist international. It set its goal to divide, conquer and destroy our republic, through class warfare.

This worldwide socialist movement conveniently forgets that our Republic has brought about, and led the drive to give all people the opportunity for individual freedom and opportunity for success, not limited by race, caste, or creed.

Unfortunately when people looked to us for what form of government they should establish, once freedom was was achieved, our state department, which had been infiltrated by socialist during the 1920's and 30's steered them away from a republican form of government and toward socialism.

When France had their revolution against a monarchy, it was not based on religious freedom, or the rights of the individual, and soon became a nightmare of class warfare. It eventually brought about a dictatorship by Napoleon, who proclaimed himself emperor.

Any government that does not respect the rights of the individual and recognize that these right come from God and not man or a government, will eventually become a god unto itself, take rights from the individual,and become a dictatorship of the intelligentsia.

Socialism just brings misery, because it is based upon taking from one group and giving to another selected group. In all versions, whether Fascist, Communist, or the generic term Socialist the intelligentsia are the ones who eventually benefit, while all others suffer.

We have great light to share with all nations that is contained in our Declaration of Independence:

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,”

Ben's right. Same thing happened in the 1970's after Little Big Man came out. That kind of thing goes back as far as the "Noble Savage" mythology of previous generations and even to the romantic statues of dying Gauls the Romans put up (sometime after Caesar finished wiping the real ones out and enslaving the survivors, of course).

In my case the family history was conveyed to all of us as soon as we could walk and was added to the accident-of-birth pridefulness that comes with an Irish surname like a toy in a Cracker Jack box.

Wait minute. How is it that she is allowed to be Native American but George Zimmerman is denied his Hispanic heritage? She is a lot more white than he is.