Even just proclaiming her ancestry WITHOUT FIRST CHECKING IN WITH ANYONE at Cherokee Nation is pretty damn insensitive at best, and sure, it’s not the exact same brand as racism we get out of Trump, but it’s this attitude of white Europeans that they can take anything they want and do with it as they please – now look, if she had just said “this something my family told me, I dunno if there’s something to it” that’s one thing, but she had to have told Harvard and other employees of her ancestral claims for them to eventually list her as a “minority” in their documents. And remember, this happened during a climate where there was a lot more conversation around affirmative action than there is even today. She knew what she was doing.
But worse, she frequently played off her ancestral claims without actually engaging the Cherokee Nation, seemingly at all – I’m not Indigenous (at least not that I know of), and even I know that they don’t use DNA as a measure of ancestry or indicator of community membership.
And then to trot this out and act as if Trump should cut a check – he clearly she should prove that she is Indian, not 1/1024 or 1/64, or anything like that…
I’m not saying that Trump hasn’t been slimy as hell throughout all this, but why is it that she so cynically felt entitled to play up her ancestry?
I really think that if we want to deal with Trump, we need radically honest politicians – who where their faults out in the open, and who give up this game of stacking lies on top of lies to defeat other liars.
I doubt that it will ever happen, but my hope is that we can somehow get this to become a meme.
But all Warren showed here is exactly how to play into Trump’s (grimy, little) hands.
