White and wrong: On the reservation with Elizabeth Warren

02 May 2012 10:57 #1 by Blazer Bob
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/column ... 1061128614


"We all know about “undocumented workers.” Now we have Elizabeth Warren, the undocumented Indian.

Funny thing, I think Ted Williams was one-fourth Mexican. He was white. Johnny Bench is one-eighth Indian. I always think of him as white. And then there’s Pochantas Warren, the blue-eyed, one-32nd Cherokee (or so we’re told) who went from the Southwest Conference to the Ivy League over the course of a decade in which she was claiming to be a “minority professor.”

But once she’d parlayed the racial-spoils racket all the way to a tenured position at Harvard Law, she decided to ... pass, as they used to say in the old South. Once she’d reached the pinnacle of her trade, she ditched the fake-Indian routine. Maybe White Eyes Warren saw the smoke signals and figured out that someone was going to call her out on her ancestry. She was right.".......................

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02 May 2012 11:49 - 02 May 2012 11:54 #2 by FredHayek
A female version of Ward Churchill?

Maybe Miss Elizabeth was thrown out of the tribe? Some Indian tribes that are making money with gambling and oil leases, have been throwing out the 1/32'r's. Don't want to share the wealth.

When taking my PSAT decades ago, I declared that I was an African American and finished in the top 1% of the nation, you should have seen the scholarship offers come roaring in. I went back to Caucasian for the ACT and didn't get nearly as many. Silver spoon & blank check indeed.

Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.

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02 May 2012 11:52 #3 by ScienceChic
So the question is, did she know that they listed her as that or not? If the school did it to skew their numbers of minority faculty, then it's on the school, not her. However, if they pulled this information from a directory that she sent the info to, and listed herself as that, then she should've known it would be used. She claims she never used it to advance her career, and how much does that matter if she's demonstrated good job performance in the decades since then?

http://articles.boston.com/2012-04-30/n ... eth-warren

But the next question is, what does this have to do with her ability to do the job?

BTW, I'm 1/32 Irish, but I don't go around calling myself Irish...b/c I'm 31/32 German heritage and more proud of that! :) I've definitely got a wider stubborn streak and penchant for efficiency than a hot temper. :biggrin: Of course, being German-American or Irish-American doesn't get one anything in terms of special consideration for jobs or college acceptance here in the US so who cares, but us Irish sure were persecuted once upon a time and Germans haven't fared so well in the reputation department in the past century.

"Now, more than ever, the illusions of division threaten our very existence. We all know the truth: more connects us than separates us. But in times of crisis the wise build bridges, while the foolish build barriers. We must find a way to look after one another as if we were one single tribe.” -King T'Challa, Black Panther

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it. ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. ~Winston Churchill

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02 May 2012 12:23 #4 by LadyJazzer

Science Chic wrote: But the next question is, what does this have to do with her ability to do the job?


Beats me... About as relevant as having eaten dog meat when you were 6 years old.

Throw it up on the wall and see if it sticks....

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02 May 2012 12:33 #5 by FredHayek
If she lied during her academic career, does that mean she is more likely to lie in her new job? Or on the campaign trail?

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02 May 2012 13:11 #6 by Nobody that matters

LadyJazzer wrote: Beats me... About as relevant as having eaten dog meat when you were 6 years old.

Throw it up on the wall and see if it sticks....

It'd slide. I hear dog meat is pretty greasy.

"Whatever you are, be a good one." ~ Abraham Lincoln

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02 May 2012 13:49 #7 by Reverend Revelant

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02 May 2012 16:04 #8 by Reverend Revelant

Science Chic wrote: So the question is, did she know that they listed her as that or not?

[snip]


Yes...

“I listed myself in the directory in the hopes that it might mean that I would be invited to a luncheon, a group something that might happen with people who are like I am. Nothing like that ever happened, that was clearly not the use for it and so I stopped checking it off,” said Warren.

“Being Native American has been part of my story I guess since the day I was born,” said Warren, who never mentioned her Native American heritage on the campaign trail even as she detailed much of her personal history to voters in speeches, statements and a video. “These are my family stories, I have lived in a family that has talked about Native American and talked about tribes since I was a little girl.”

http://www.bostonherald.com/news/politi ... 1061128808

This woman is nuts.

Waiting for Armageddon since 33 AD

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02 May 2012 18:05 - 02 May 2012 18:34 #9 by Rick

The Liberals GOP Twin wrote:
This woman is nuts.

You are being too kind.

The left is angry because they are now being judged by the content of their character and not by the color of their skin.

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02 May 2012 18:12 #10 by ScienceChic
Umm, misquote there?? I didn't say Warren was nuts (unless TLGT was trying to say I'm nuts, which I won't dispute whatsoever, I'm getting more and more that way every day!). lol

"Now, more than ever, the illusions of division threaten our very existence. We all know the truth: more connects us than separates us. But in times of crisis the wise build bridges, while the foolish build barriers. We must find a way to look after one another as if we were one single tribe.” -King T'Challa, Black Panther

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it. ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. ~Winston Churchill

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