Replies to post #290994 on Tornado Alley (PROG)

[fuagf]

conix, Warren chooses not to. You still have no basis for saying the story is not true.

Or, are you saying just because Obama finally chose to produce
his birth certificate in the face of Trump's lies, so Warren should?

Why should she do it just because you and others say she should?

[Susie924]

You must be kidding! Do you think she really cares what YOUR president calls her?

The only one who looks dumb in this scenario is YOUR president when he uses the tactics of a third grader with his name calling.

My apologies to all third graders.

[sortagreen]

Before this controversy arose in 2012, there is no account that Warren spoke publicly of having Native American roots, although she called herself Cherokee in a local Oklahoma cookbook in 1984.

There is no dispute that Warren formally notified officials at the University of Pennsylvania and then Harvard claiming Native American heritage after she was hired.

Her detractors say she deployed a faux Native American connection to improve her chances of landing teaching jobs at two of the country’s top law schools. However, there is no proof Warren gained any special advantage in her career.

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The first mention

Warren’s heritage wasn’t something she brought up during her 2012 Senate race against Republican Scott Brown.

The questions started with a Boston Herald story on April 27, 2012.

"Elizabeth Warren’s avowed Native American heritage — which the candidate rarely if ever discusses on the campaign trail — was once touted by embattled Harvard Law School officials who cited her claim as proof of their faculty’s diversity," the article began. What the article revealed dated back more than a decade to diversity records kept by Harvard.

At a time when law schools faced public pressure to show greater ethnic diversity within their faculty, the university’s Crimson newspaper quoted a law school spokesman in 1996 saying Warren was Native American.


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Warren herself didn’t trumpet this side of her family story. When applying to college and law school, records show that she either identified as white or declined to apply based on minority status.

https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2017/dec/01/facts-behind-elizabeth-warren-and-her-native-ameri/

So the take away is that her family claims a great great great relative that was native... never once enough to qualify for anything, and that all you've got.

And that's what you have to be a fucking bitch about? Grow the fuck up.