Harvard Law School lists one lone Native American faculty member on its latest diversity census report — but school officials and campaign aides for Elizabeth Warren refused to say yesterday whether it refers to the Democratic Senate candidate.
Warren — who has been dogged by questions about whether she used her claims of Cherokee lineage to further her career — has insisted she never authorized Harvard Law to count her as a Native American in the mid-1990s, when the school was under fire for not having enough minority professors.
Prior to that, from 1986 to 1995, Warren had listed herself as a minority in a law school directory administrators then used as a tip sheet when making diversity hires. But by 1996, when Harvard Law was boasting that Warren was the faculty’s first minority female, she had stopped appearing in the law school directory.
Harvard Law’s 2011 diversity report does not indicate who the Native American professor is. And the school refused to say whether it’s Warren.
Billy Jack could not be reached for comment.
Progressives are pathetic.
You have to love it when identity politics comes back to bite them in the ass.
Just in case you’re having difficulty keeping up with all these Composite-Americans, George Zimmerman, the son of a Peruvian mestiza, is the embodiment of endemic white racism and the reincarnation of Bull Connor, but Elizabeth Warren, the great-great-great-granddaughter of someone who might possibly have been listed as Cherokee on an application for a marriage license, is a heartwarming testimony to how minorities are shattering the glass ceiling in Harvard Yard. George Zimmerman, redneck; Elizabeth Warren, redskin.
Mark Steyn: Fauxcahontas and the melting pot
it’s nauseating to remember that no matter what we do this year no matter how we struggle our pitiful debased little white house will be occupied by some varietal of hyper-entitled harvard trash for the next four years
as much as I’m cool to Romney, how is he “trash”?
At least he made his money.
he’s the shit what stuck to the wall I thought we all understood the process
One drop of progressive blood and the brain goes to mush.
she would have been the first Native American to head the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau
Mark Steyn is teh awesome.
the article suggests she may not even be an honest 1/32 injun
I can’t believe we almost put this hoochie in charge of protecting consumers’ wampum
Trash works for me.
Family fiction has it that we are also part Cherokee. However, one of my cousins who is the family geneology sleuth has been unable to prove it and believe me, she has been diligent about it since I have a cache of old family photographs that show known relatives with Injuns in tribal dress.
Photographic evidence should be good enough, right? Right?
OT: Apologies, but this is just too good not to share. Adam Corolla verbally tears 60 Minutes Leslie Stahl a new poop chute over her progressive fainting spell about the CIA’s enhanced interrogation of terrorists while interviewing Jose Rodriguez Jr.
You know…the enhanced interrogation…that led to the intelligence…that allowed Obama to clench a knife in his teeth…climb through a window in a house in Abbottabad…and personally kill Bin Laden.
Also, Taxagawea.
WHOOP! WHOOP! WHOOP!
The NYT finds a way to characterize Brown as a “birther” over the Warren as native-american controversy.
More and more Jeff G. is being shown to be correct, race is a social construct. And in many cases it is a self-constructed project.
Elizabeth was just ahead of her time.
So if Ms. Warren can use some 5th generation removed grievance to get to Ivy, what do you expect HS ACT Test takers to do?
Maybe Cher should update her song “Half Breed” for the Warren campaign. “1/32nd Breed,” perhaps?
If I have any Injun blood it’ll be news to me. Judging from the little leaves at Ancestry.com I can claim most of the nations of Europe but nothing else. I my be a mongrel, but I’m a white mongrel.
I’m 1/16 Chippewa on my dad’s side, but I’ve never once considered marking myself as “American Indian/Native American” on any form.
You said “Cher”…and linked a song.
You are dead to me sir (not really, just funnin’).
Seriously though, don’t ever mention Cher again.
Or Lady Gaga.
Also, this happened.
Really, dude?
Really?
But he’s your shit now. You’d better start sniffin’ and smilin’, because they’ll be no Palin to come save your Christmassy goose-egg ass at this junct-ure.
Well, as for “Native American,” I was born in America, so…
Well, as for “Native American,” I was born in America, so
same with liz 32/32 “native american”
I dunno. Unless she releases her birth certificate I’m thinking maybe as much as 1/8 of her wasn’t born here.
Crap. My great great grandmother was (we think) 100% blackfoot Indian. That’s 1/16th. I’ve totally wasted this info. I had no idea that I could use it to get a better job.
Can I sue someone or something?
I love how the NYT tries to turn it around and claim that the real outrage here is the GOP mistrust of “the Other.” No, the mistrust is over the cynical use of Otherness that it is clear Warren only believed in precisely insofar as it could be advantageous to her under a system that has been rigged to reward such useful fictions.
Oh. And so long as we’re doing the “your race is what you’ve come to think it is” business, I’d like to retroactively apply the Beastie Boys for some NAACP scholarship monies — and I’d like to re-apply myself to Harvard as a black man who, through my Southern Italian heritage, almost certainly has some Moor in his background, if Dennis Hopper in True Romance is to be believed.
I will assert that Miz Warren has given us all license to invent our heritage. Awesome. I’ll have to give this some thought and come up with something truly fantastic—and unprovable.
In that case, I’ll be whatever heritage is the highest bidder. Of course, that means I’m most likely to end up Romulan (the Ferengi only bid up prices for others to pay).
Those Kenyans at the half marthon were fucking fast. If we started at the same time, I would have been passing mile marker 7 when they reached the finish line.
Obviously, marathon runners are in need of an affirmative action mandate. You should get to begin the marathon at the 7 mile marker.
For the fairness.
White men cannot be discriminated against, nor do they deserve any consideration at all.
Because of the Oppression!
The cynical manipulation of a stupid system for personal gain?
I call that “par for the course”, baby.