WaPo uncovers Liz Warren’s 1986 bar app. Race handwritten as “American Indian”

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Anonymous wrote:I don't care. Do you?

Do you think that was okay and honest?

you're kidding, right? You want to talk about "honesty".. um okay.. how about honesty from our POTUS. This app was.. what... 40 years ago? FFS.

First of all, nice whataboutism.
Secondly, are you one of the morons outraged about what Northam - and/or Kavanaugh - had in their yearbooks, 35+ yrs. ago?
-DP

sexual assault is a bigger deal than lying about your enthnicity.

And I'm not white.

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Anonymous wrote:Today the Cherokee Nations is more than 355,000 citizens strong, young and old. To be eligible for Cherokee Nation citizenship, individuals must provide documents connecting them to an enrolled direct ancestor who is listed on the Dawes Roll. CDIB/Tribal Citizenship is traced through natural parents. In cases of adoption, CDIB/Citizenship must be proven through a biological parent to an ancestor registered on the Dawes Roll.

https://www.cherokee.org/Services/Tribal-Citizenship

That's for claiming membership in the tribe. Not ancestry or descent. These are very different things. For example, many people discover that they have Jewish ancestry through genetic testing. They might not be able marry in a synagogue, or study to be a rabbi, or be buried in a Jewish cemetery - unless they formally convert. But I don't get to tell them that they can't claim to be of Jewish descent.

Except Warren has claimed to BE Native American.

And she IS Native American.

Sure she is. That’s exactly why she’s apologizing publicly for claiming to be Native American; because she’s Native American.

Are you familiar with the term BEC? Elizabeth Warren is your BEC.
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=BEC

Elizabeth Warren is a liar who has been exposed as a cracker.

Just own it. It is okay.

'If I saw Trump across the room, I would be like, look at that liar drooling on his cracker.'

You would be, like?

Ah, now I get it.

And that comment was lovely insight in to YOU. Thank you for that.

Like, you’re totally welcome.

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Anonymous wrote:Today the Cherokee Nations is more than 355,000 citizens strong, young and old. To be eligible for Cherokee Nation citizenship, individuals must provide documents connecting them to an enrolled direct ancestor who is listed on the Dawes Roll. CDIB/Tribal Citizenship is traced through natural parents. In cases of adoption, CDIB/Citizenship must be proven through a biological parent to an ancestor registered on the Dawes Roll.

https://www.cherokee.org/Services/Tribal-Citizenship

That's for claiming membership in the tribe. Not ancestry or descent. These are very different things. For example, many people discover that they have Jewish ancestry through genetic testing. They might not be able marry in a synagogue, or study to be a rabbi, or be buried in a Jewish cemetery - unless they formally convert. But I don't get to tell them that they can't claim to be of Jewish descent.

Except Warren has claimed to BE Native American.

THIS. The question was, what race are you? And her answer was flatly: American Indian. That takes an incredible amount of nerve.

At this point, she would be criticized if she put Caucasian and criticized if she put American Indian. Too bad writing in more than one thing wasn't really a thing back then.

Umm, how would she be criticized for putting Caucasian down? She *is* Caucasian. You apologists are something else.

As we saw on this thread, someone was saying that they wanted to see Native American on her other legal documents, including on her birth certificate, if she really believed it.

Basically, she can't win, even though she has apologized to the Cherokee Nation. People will always be angry about it (although I am not sure how many who will always be angry about it are actually members of the Cherokee nation.)

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Anonymous wrote:Today the Cherokee Nations is more than 355,000 citizens strong, young and old. To be eligible for Cherokee Nation citizenship, individuals must provide documents connecting them to an enrolled direct ancestor who is listed on the Dawes Roll. CDIB/Tribal Citizenship is traced through natural parents. In cases of adoption, CDIB/Citizenship must be proven through a biological parent to an ancestor registered on the Dawes Roll.

https://www.cherokee.org/Services/Tribal-Citizenship

That's for claiming membership in the tribe. Not ancestry or descent. These are very different things. For example, many people discover that they have Jewish ancestry through genetic testing. They might not be able marry in a synagogue, or study to be a rabbi, or be buried in a Jewish cemetery - unless they formally convert. But I don't get to tell them that they can't claim to be of Jewish descent.

Except Warren has claimed to BE Native American.

And she IS Native American.

Sure she is. That’s exactly why she’s apologizing publicly for claiming to be Native American; because she’s Native American.

Are you familiar with the term BEC? Elizabeth Warren is your BEC.
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=BEC

Elizabeth Warren is a liar who has been exposed as a cracker.

Just own it. It is okay.

'If I saw Trump across the room, I would be like, look at that liar drooling on his cracker.'

You would be, like?

Ah, now I get it.

And that comment was lovely insight in to YOU. Thank you for that.

Like, you’re totally welcome.

Thanks, man!

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So sad... got her a head start, but now shes playing catch up. Should have just been honest

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I don't care. Do you?

Do you think that was okay and honest?

you're kidding, right? You want to talk about "honesty".. um okay.. how about honesty from our POTUS. This app was.. what... 40 years ago? FFS.

First of all, nice whataboutism.
Secondly, are you one of the morons outraged about what Northam - and/or Kavanaugh - had in their yearbooks, 35+ yrs. ago?
-DP

sexual assault is a bigger deal than lying about your enthnicity.

And I'm not white.

Definitely agree - if there was proof or corroborating evidence *of any kind* that sexual assault ever occurred. But there wasn't - not a shred. So this is actually a much bigger deal.

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It would be so great if all these outraged people would actually care about issues affecting Native Americans. We don’t need your false outrage to push your own political agendas. Put up or shut up. Makes me sick.

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Still, no one has venture an opinion on my question about race and ethnicity.

MANY Latino/Hispanic (depending on the form) people fall in to this category -

Are they NOT supposed to put American Indian if they are not a member of a tribe?

Even when Caucasian, Black/African American, Asian/ Asian American don't apply?

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Anonymous wrote:I don't care. Do you?

Do I care that the odds favorite to become the next potus, the first female potus, just saw her political career implode? Yeah, I kinda do care.

You care that she lied on her app 40 years ago but don't care that our current POTUS is the biggest liar of them all, lies about our IC and other national security concerns? ok. I see where your priorities are.

Woman lies = OMG this is huge
Man lies = what's the big deal.. it's hyperbole.. what he reeaaally meant was xyz

So tell, us - what did she "really" mean when she clearly wrote, "American Indian"? Surely that was hyperbole too. She must have meant something else. What was it?
-DP

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Anonymous wrote:Who careas? It’s not like bar applications are a selective process and they can only admit so many so she got some kind of edge identifying as American Indian. This is truly a situation where it didn’t help or hurt her, it just was. If anything, this substantiates to me that she really did identify as American Indian if she’s using it in contexts where it doesn’t matter.

Oh don't be dense. Elizabeth Warren is obviously a white woman and obviously identifies as such. Even if she heard that she had a great great great grandparent that was Native American everyone in her family is white. There's no way she really saw herself as Native American. What she did is really quite galling. It's the kind of thing that people make jokes about doing, but no one actually has the nerve to do.

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This.

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Anonymous wrote:Shameful. Frankly, I think this is worse than what Northam has been accused of doing.
She blatantly lied.

I totally agree. And I'm a conservative who sees no need for Northam to resign. This, however, is really beyond the pale. Pun intended.

WTH? You are crazy.

Nope. Not crazy at all.
She blatantly lied and said her RACE was American Indian. Really?
How many other times has she lied? I think this is the tip of the iceberg.

PLEASE answer how it is worse for her to self identify as something that she has heritage of than for someone to commit blatantly racist acts like put on blackface. (Which Northam has admitted, BTW, not just been accused of. He admitted it at the press conference.) PLEASE explain if you can. I would love to hear this.

Northam did what is considered a racist act in order to imitate a famous singer/dancer. Was it wrong? Sure it was. He probably thought he was showing some type of respect to Michael Jackson, because, it was after all, a dance contest. He wasn't doing it to mock. He was doing it because Jackson is known for being a great dancer. It was one incident at one point in time.
Warren lied. Her race is not American Indian, and she knew that then as she knows that now. She was using minority status to her advantage. And, she continued with the lie.
So, yes, this is worse. Because she knew it was wrong and it continued over a period of time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't care. Do you?

Do you think that was okay and honest?

you're kidding, right? You want to talk about "honesty".. um okay.. how about honesty from our POTUS. This app was.. what... 40 years ago? FFS.

First of all, nice whataboutism.
Secondly, are you one of the morons outraged about what Northam - and/or Kavanaugh - had in their yearbooks, 35+ yrs. ago?
-DP

sexual assault is a bigger deal than lying about your enthnicity.

And I'm not white.

Definitely agree - if there was proof or corroborating evidence *of any kind* that sexual assault ever occurred. But there wasn't - not a shred. So this is actually a much bigger deal.

Please don't insult us, yourself and this conversation by making a political statement that is not true at all. ARe you the one who keeps posting that? Please stop. There was a lot of corroborating evidence. Just stop it. There was not incontrovertible proof. Those are the words you are looking for.
https://rewire.news/ablc/2018/10/04/corroborating-evidence-christine-blasey-ford-allegations/

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Anonymous wrote:It would be so great if all these outraged people would actually care about issues affecting Native Americans. We don’t need your false outrage to push your own political agendas. Put up or shut up. Makes me sick.

SO MUCH THIS.

I subscribe to a bunch of native american activists. There are much more important conversations than this.

[Anonymous]

The oil leases in Alaska are a HUGE issue now.

https://www.alaskapublic.org/2019/01/04/despite-shutdown-trump-administration-continues-work-to-begin-oil-drilling-in-anwr/

If you care about native american causes, speak out against the drilling in Alaska.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't care. Do you?

Do you think that was okay and honest?

you're kidding, right? You want to talk about "honesty".. um okay.. how about honesty from our POTUS. This app was.. what... 40 years ago? FFS.

First of all, nice whataboutism.
Secondly, are you one of the morons outraged about what Northam - and/or Kavanaugh - had in their yearbooks, 35+ yrs. ago?
-DP

sexual assault is a bigger deal than lying about your enthnicity.

And I'm not white.

Definitely agree - if there was proof or corroborating evidence *of any kind* that sexual assault ever occurred. But there wasn't - not a shred. So this is actually a much bigger deal.

I still don't consider lying about your ethnicity that big of a deal. I know a guy who is 1/16 Am. Indian. Dude looks 100% white - light hair, blue eyes. I'm Asian, and I look more Indian American than he does, but he can claim it and I really don't care, just like I really don't care that Warren lied about her ethnicity 40 years ago. I'm also not liberal.