“It was based on my understanding from my family’s stories.”
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) insisted once again on Wednesday that “family lore” was sufficient justification for claiming — beginning in 1984 in the Pow Wow Chowcookbook and in 1986 on her Texas Bar registration card — that she has Native American heritage.
She also hinted that more documents from “from that point in time” — presumably the 18-year period between 1986 and 2004 — may surface in which she identified as an American Indian in legally significant documents.
“Are there any more documents or forms like this out there that you have listed yourself as that could come out?” one reporter asked Warren specifically on Wednesday.
Warren responded:
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ReplyDeleteShe ought to leave it alone because (mixed metaphor alert)it's her Waterloo.
It's abundantly clear she hit on the strategy of claiming a microscopic ancestral tie as a powerful strategy to advance her career with little chance of pushback or discovery along the way.
Any interim 'documentation' is likely to be covered with her fingerprints as she lied her way up the academic totem pole. Just as the recently found Texas bar registration card with her handwriting on it. The bogus tribal tie may actually be less damaging to her than a review of her crackpot legislative history and proposals.
Warren still hasn't apologized to the voters for her 35 year continuous lie and what it did for her career.
ReplyDeleteIf it was truly "family lore", did the rest of her family (parents,grandparents,brothers, sisters, cousins) also put this on important paperwork? I'm guessing not, or we would have heard about it by now.
ReplyDeleteI would venture to say that her relatives claiming Indian heritage are all dead
DeleteIs'nt using one's race to obtain an advantage over other people in employment, education and business one of the pillars of this countries civil rights movement? Asking a person race in any application for anything is and always has been inherently wrong.
ReplyDeleteMy family always said we were descended from royalty. Where's my palace?
ReplyDeleteGood one 8:29! LOL!
ReplyDeleteLet's keep this simple and to the point. She's a consummate liar. Her Choice to LIE.
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