Thursday - May 03, 2012

Indian Uprising In Massachusetts

Was it right for [Democrat Senatorial candidate] Elizabeth Warren to identify as a minority? Will voters care? A genealogist is supporting Elizabeth Warren’s claim of Cherokee ancestry. But what could linger with voters is whether it’s right for someone who is 1/32 native American to claim minority status.

In the already intense US Senate race in Massachusetts, a new issue has emerged: Did Democratic hopeful Elizabeth Warren, who claims partial native American ancestry, improperly present herself as a minority to further her academic career?

Ms. Warren’s campaign says her Republican rival, incumbent Sen. Scott Brown, is trying to create an issue where none exists.

On Monday, a Massachusetts genealogist entered the fray by citing a century-old document that, if correct, would show Warren to be 1/32 Cherokee in ancestry. That would confirm her statements that, as a youth, she heard relatives discuss ancestral links to Cherokee and Delaware Indians.

It would not necessarily close the matter as an issue in the Senate campaign, however.

Questions would remain, and potentially would resonate with voters, about whether it was appropriate for her to list herself as a minority when her connection to native American identity appears to be so small.

“You don’t need to take a DNA test to know that in America, Elizabeth Warren is viewed and treated as a white woman, with all its benefits,” commented Jamarhl Crawford, publisher of the Blackstonian, a news organization serving blacks in Boston.

Warren has said she could not recall ever listing native American background when applying for college or a job, the Boston Herald reported Saturday. The paper said Warren also commented that she didn’t have a problem with Harvard Law School citing her background as part of its faculty diversity, but that she didn’t know until recently that the school had counted her as a minority.

Well, she certainly passes the pencil test so we can rule out her being black. But by the now nullified Racial Integrity Act of 1924 she certainly isn’t white.

It appears that Ms. Warren has gamed the system, at least at the collegiate application level. And even though she is a Democrat, I can’t say that I blame her. The only solution that works - a bit of pragmitism no Progressive would ever stand for* - is that we should just get over the whole damn race thing and Move On. No more boxes to check, no more records kept. And thus no more Affirmative Action, no hiring quotas, no Diversity Goals. Crivens, we can’t have that, it would be like ... freedom!!

Instead we have today’s modern world, where you seem to have the right to have race, gender, and sexual orientation by choice. An academia where checking one of the desired boxes can make all the difference in admissions. And all the onus of proof being on the accusing side.

Let’s face it, we’ve got a bevy of black entertainers and highly paid public faces who no self-respecting actual African would identify as black. Folks with just the slightest tiny amount of coffee and toffee tone. But the One Drop Rule goes the other way these days, so fire and brimstone be upon you should you dare to question their hyphenated ethnic assertion. We don’t have to look further than the White House to find a white man, son of a white woman, raised by his white grandparents and by his Indonesian step father, who grew up in a mostly white environment, who claims to be black and is thought of as black just because his bigamist tribal father happened to be an African Muslim. But at the very same time, let’s ignore that this white guy had a Muslim father, carries an obviously Muslim name, and received his early schooling in a Muslim madrassa, and that under Islam the penalty for apostasy is death. Once in, never out, yet the whole damn nation (at least the media) insists that he is a Christian - even if it’s a Christianity of the God Damn America kind, that only praises Radical Black Jesus and leads the guy to give hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars to pisslamic Palestinian terrorists in an end run around the wishes of the very government he leads - that no other variety of Christian is really willing to accept in their own heart as Christianity.

And let’s not forget about the press not reporting on the large number of random white folks being beaten by black flash mobs as “racial justice” for the Treyvon Martin shooting, done by a self-identified Hispanic guy that the media has decided is White. Too bad he couldn’t spell “George” as “Jorge”.

So does this mean that Elizabeth Warren is an Indian a Native American? I don’t know. But why not? How much tribal casino stock does she own? That could be the new standard in this day and age.

This issue could play into that narrative, if it appears that Warren sought to use a liberal orthodoxy (affirmative action) to promote her own career.

And, regardless of the political stakes, the to-and-fro in recent days points to an interesting question of defining identity.

I wish I could play this game. I can’t. My mother has been doing the family genealogy for more than 20 years, and she’s really great at it, but in all her tracing of our ancestors, all the way back to Rollo the Bloody Viking, all she ever comes up with are white people. English, Swedes, Germans. A couple of long-ago Frenchies, but from the coast when that area was actually England. The peoples of the North Sea. Heck, there isn’t even an Irishman in my tree, and probably not even a Catholic until you go back before the Reformation. And once all the ancestors got over here (they wisely took the 8th boat across, not one of the dangerous first 3), they stuck to their own, forever. Not a single Native American, ever. And promptly forgot about any of that Old Country nonsense. I’m as American WASP as it gets, or, as our Presbyterian preacher put it to me when I was a little kid, “We’re not ethnic.” And that’s too bad, as I would have liked to go to Harvard Law myself. Failing that, it would have been fun to feel even a little connection to the big St. Patrick’s Day or San Gennaro festivals. Nope, not me. Nada. I don’t even have Lutefisk or toad-in-the-hole to turn to. Zip.

Posted by Drew458     on 05/03/2012 at 01:05 PM   
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