OldLady
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Where did you get that stat (50% of Americans have Native blood)? That is not what I heard.It's not ONE DROP, and it proves Warren's assertions. Not that she is a tribal member, but that she had an ancestor that was Native American. Why is it so friggin hard for people to accept that? Is it the end of the world that a Democrat told the truth one time? LOLWhere did you get that "statistic" from? I don't actually believe it. I've seen lots of those results and Native American is not as common as European and Asian.
https://www.cell.com/ajhg/fulltext/S0002-9297(14)00476-5#secsectitle0135
Most people whose families have been in North America any length of time contain traces of a variety of races and ethnicities. Your average American who claims European descent actually is about .18% Native American, although that obviously fluctuates according to where the family is from. Melting pot, remember?
Indeed. That's why this identity politics b'loney is such...b'loney.
How in the hell did this country loop around back to the "just one drop" attitudes of Jim Crow? I feel like I just woke up in some Bizarro World 1950.
It seems odd that she would bring it up considering that her portion of Native American is shared by roughly 50 million other Americans. There was a distinct impression that she hope to gain some prominence and some advantage by mentioning it. Truth be told it's all fairly harmless until you consider it in the light of her plagiarized cook book named Pow Wow Chow, and in the light of several dozen speeches given by her where she speaks of herself as being Native American when in fact she is not.
It doesn't make her a bad person but it makes her one that's very stupid if she thinks that assertion will go on challenged by the genuine American Indian Nation should she decide to make a run for president.
Nobody really cares one way or another except perhaps her.
Jo
The only people who care about this is all the right wingers who have been hooting and hollering and calling her a liar for years because she claimed Native American ancestry. So she proves it and now you don't believe it or think it's not enough for something or other?