Yesterday, the application filed by Elizabeth Warren for admission to the Texas bar was made public and it showed that she noted that she was "American Indian." That's rather bizarre since her DNA test showed her to be 1/1024 Native American (which happens to be less than the average American white person.) Today, Warren was asked if there are other documents out there where she claimed to be an "American Indian". Warren didn't say no. Instead, Warren said that in that period (which is all of her life until last year), being a Native American was part of her family story. In other words, Warren knows that there are other such documents, but she isn't going to give anyone a lead as to where to find them.
Think about this for a moment. All her life, Warren knew that she and her parents and her grandparents weren't Native Americans. All she had to do was look in the mirror to see that. Supposedly, according to Warren, one of her grandparents was part Cherokee although the story she told about that turned out not to be true either. But let's assume that Warren believed that one of her grandparents was part Cherokee. That would mean that she was at most one sixteenth Native American. For Warren to conclude that such a background made her an "American Indian", Warren had to be operating under a very racist viewpoint as to just who is a Native American. She had to have the view that any amount of non-Caucasian ancestry makes one non-white. And Warren persisted in this view until she had to retreat under pressure last fall. That means that Elizabeth Warren has operated her whole life under a racist paradigm.
Think about this for a moment. All her life, Warren knew that she and her parents and her grandparents weren't Native Americans. All she had to do was look in the mirror to see that. Supposedly, according to Warren, one of her grandparents was part Cherokee although the story she told about that turned out not to be true either. But let's assume that Warren believed that one of her grandparents was part Cherokee. That would mean that she was at most one sixteenth Native American. For Warren to conclude that such a background made her an "American Indian", Warren had to be operating under a very racist viewpoint as to just who is a Native American. She had to have the view that any amount of non-Caucasian ancestry makes one non-white. And Warren persisted in this view until she had to retreat under pressure last fall. That means that Elizabeth Warren has operated her whole life under a racist paradigm.
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