Posted on 03/14/2018 5:27:52 AM PDT by Kaslin
Believe it or not, I was willing to give Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren the benefit of the doubt that she thought she was 1/32 Cherokee. Her belief (or hoax) was a non-issue until 2012 when she was running to unseat incumbent Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown. In 1984s Pow Wow Chow cookbook, she signed her recipes Elizabeth Warren Cherokee, and nobody cared. In the mid-1990s when she was tenured at Harvard Law School, she listed herself as a minority in a law school directory, and nobody cared. In 2012, everybody cared. Rush Limbaugh, who has a knack for nicknames, dubbed her Fauxcahontas. (Donald Trumpno slouch at nicknames himselfcontinues to carry her banner under the moniker Pocahontas.)
But maybe she was telling the truth.
She hails from Oklahoma where, apparently, everybody thinks theyre part Cherokee. A spokesman for the Cherokee Nation in Oklahomathe largest Cherokee tribe in the country with 300,000 memberssaid, "There's a running joke in Indian country: If you meet somebody who you wouldn't necessarily think is Native, but they say they're Native, chances are they'll tell you they're Cherokee."
Oklahomans arent the only ones who think theyre part Cherokee. Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., known for his work with African-American genealogy, said the widespread belief in Indian ancestry is the biggest myth in African-American genealogy: 'My great grandmother was a Cherokee princess,' " he says, adding, "The average slave and the average Native American didn't even see each other, which makes it very hard to mate."
This isnt unreasonable. Many families enhance their histories in some way, either deliberately or through the years like the Telephone game where what is said at the beginning of the game resembles not at all what is said at the end. Like I said, benefit of the doubt, even though I am no Elizabeth Warrena pox on both her housessupporter. Fair is fair.
In 2018, she is running for reelection and appeared on Sundays Meet the Press with Chuck Todd. After six years of enjoying reasonable doubt about some high cheekbones, she slid a change-up our way.
So let me tell you the story of my family. My mother and daddy were born and raised in Oklahoma. My daddy first saw my mother when they were both teenagers. He fell in love with this tall, quiet girl who played the piano. Head over heels. But his family was bitterly opposed to their relationship because she was part Native American. They eventually eloped. They survived the Great Depression. The Dust Bowl. A lot of knocks. They raised my three brothers, all of whom headed off to the military, and me. And they fought. They loved each other. And most of all they hung together for 63 years. And that's the story that my brothers and I all learned from our mom and our dad, from our grandparents, from all of our aunts and uncles. It's a part of me, and nobody's going to take that part of me away.
Huh? Now its her parents marriage that proves shes part Cherokee? And she heard the story straight from mom and pop? Well, thats convenient, or would be if it werent invented out of wholecloth. It would seem that a woman as brightit pains me to say itas Elizabeth Warren would have gone for the big guns way back in 2012. My mother is part Native American, and thats why my fathers family opposed the marriage is a heckuva lot more solid than high cheekbones in a black and white photograph. If its true. (Thats a rhetorical if because clearly its not.)
This is important because even though she insists, I have no intention of running for presidentclassic political double-speakshe is certainly thinking hard about it. Shes also being courted and pressured and cajoled and enticed and flattered by members of her party who badly want her to run. She smacks of Hillary-lite (please, no).
Isnt it interesting that Hillary was once party to demonizing her husbands accusers as liars, bimbos, and trailer trash only to campaign heartily in 2016 that every woman deserves to be heard? And now Elizabeth Warren is pretending its no sleight of hand to substitute the proof of her parents marriage for that of her grandfathers photograph. What a savvy politician. When she suddenly finds the intention to run for president, she might even win her partys nomination.
But my moneys on California Senator Kamala Harris for Democratic nominee in 2020. As Californias Attorney General, Harris ran for and won her Senate seat in 2016 with nary a word about her Indian and Jamaican heritage. It seems that when ethnic heritage is for real its a non-issue. When its a political ploy, its probably not for real.
“Isnt a bit unusual for a woman her age to be calling her Father, daddy?
Pawpaw.
It looks like the Dems just picked up a House seat here in PA by running a moderate-sounding stealth candidate.
Fortunately they will never be able to pull that off at POTUS level. Their screaming, lunatic base won’t let them.
Yes the author was showing a lack of historical knowledge...which is far too common. Writers now seem to think they don’t need to be accurate. I always thought the hardest part of writing was the research, but they skip that step now, most don’t even bother with a 5 minute internet search.
That's factual!!!
As if that would be the tie breaker.
Not so much a tiebreaker, but a statement that all negative news about me is fake.
E.g. The evil rightwingers speak with forked tongue.
Once a liar, always a liar.
The Associated Press has not called the race. Lamb has declared victory but Saccone is not conceding.
Good for him.
Gates is an idiot. Of course. Not only did black and red meet and mate, but Cherokees owned slaves.
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Anyone can look it up via the Dawes final rolls
http://www.okhistory.org/research/dawes.
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Hang on to your chair — you will NOT believe this! A search for Herring reveals zero entries and Reed reveals no Paulines (or any “P” first name). Of course Warren gets no hits that resemble “elizabeth” or variants.
Too bad the people giving way scholarships and other benefits didn’t have this available. Had I known you could pull this off I would have been registered as “FD BrokenRubber” or some such.
Absolutely 100% true. AND, if your not a member of a tribe, then you are not Native.
Cherokee is the story they told when it was really black blood in the ancestry.
Kind of hard to screw that gig up.
But not impossible.
Getting off the plane: "So this is New Zealand, huh? Not nearly as nice as the rest of Australia!"
Regards,
Grandkids do come up with some doozy names for grandmas and grandpas. My own mother was called “Da” by the first grandchild and was known by that by the following 12 over the years. It became easy for us to refer to our own mother as “Da” when talking to the kids and it became a habit to us.
Our grandson when very small called his grandpa, “Crapa” as that must be the way it sounded to him - giving us all a chuckle. I wanted to be called Grandma and I am called Grandma - no cutesy names for me. I know grandmothers who actually tell their grandchildren what they want to be called and it’s always a “cutesy” name. I guess so they don’t feel old. I waited long enough to have our daughter and long enough also to become a grandmother and I’m not giving it up!
LOL! My first thought as well. Wait, this is supposed to be funny?
“classic political double-speak”
“forked tongue”?
She’s a fake, phoney, fraud, and an American Indian (Cherokee, as it happens) genealogist knows it:
http://www.pollysgranddaughter.com/p/elizabeth-warren-information.html
Here’s the money quote: “Elizabeth Warren is a candidate for the U.S. Senate from the state of Massachusetts. She claims she is of Cherokee descent. She has come under fire for possibly using that claim to give her career a boost at a time when Harvard Law was under pressure to hire more minority professors. We have done extensive research on her ancestry and on the stories she has told trying to back up her claim. There is absolutely no evidence to suggest she actually had a Cherokee or American Indian ancestor. Despite repeated requests for her to release her personnel records from the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard Law School, she refuses to do so.”
She could take a simple test and find out for sure in about 6-8 weeks if she has Native American DNA in her body, or not. A friend of mine recently did this - she always knew that she had some, but took the test to verify it...and found that she’s 52% Native American. Note that she is EXTREMELY reluctant to take any benefits for it, but is nonetheless proud of this part of her heritage (and the rest of it, as well).
That Elizabeth Warren refuses to do so is, IMHO, Exhibit #1 in the case that she “speaks with forked tongue.”
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